Quick Start Step 5: Incorporate Lifestyle Factors

Now that you've uploaded some lab results to your SelfDecode account, it's time to figure out what aspects of your environment and lifestyle might be impacting your health.

Lifestyle Assessments are brief questionnaires we created, that ask questions about lifestyle, environment, and medical history. Completing your Lifestyle Assessments can help you identify potential risks in your environment.

  1. To get started, select My Lifestyle on the navigation panel:

We have over 150 different Lifestyle Assessment topics!

  1. Select the topic you're interested in, to see if your lifestyle is putting you at risk. You can click anywhere on the Lifestyle Assessment tile to start the questionnaire:

  1. Answer each question in the assessment, then select see my results.

  1. We will tell you whether your provided answers have indicated a increased, decreased, or moderate risk score for that topic.

  1. On this page, you can read more about the health topic.
  2. To see which answers were flagged, and determine which areas of your lifestyle you may want to focus on improving, select Next Steps

  1. Knowing exactly which areas of your lifestyle, environment, and medical history are affecting your risk can help give you the power and motivation to work on improving your answers! We'll also tell you which answers you provided that are decreasing your risk, so you can keep up the good work, too.
  2. Once you've implemented some positive lifestyle changes into your routine, we recommend retaking your assessments. Not only will you get a more accurate overview of your potential risks, you'll see the real-time progress that you're making as you strive for a healthier you.

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