Pharmacogenetics testing is relatively new to the medical field. In fact, this type of genetic testing is still growing in populating results in the growing pharmaceutical world. What is Pharmagenomics? The National Library of Medicine defines it as the study of how genes affect a person’s response to drugs. The lab test would help physicians be able to tell what medications a patient would best benefit from.
Every patient is different in many ways. Some of us don’t realize that how our body metabolizes medication can have a great effect on how the medication will work. Pro-GeneX explains, for some patients that need antidepressants, if their body metabolizes too fast, body will metabolize it so fast that the patient won’t see any benefits.
