Getting recruited? Know your body before college coaches ask. Understand injury risks, optimize training, and build a plan that separates you from every other prospect in your class.
The jump from high school to college is where most athletes break down. Know your genetic recovery speed, injury predisposition, and supplement needs before the training ramps up.
At the highest level, margins are razor thin. Your DNA tells us what your competition doesn't know about themselves. Optimize every variable — recovery, training load, and supplementation.
You spend thousands on travel teams, equipment, and camps. This is the one investment that tells you exactly what your kid's body needs — not what a generic program guesses. HSA/FSA covers it.
Not a competitive athlete? Doesn't matter. Your DNA drives everything — how you build muscle, burn fat, recover from workouts, and respond to supplements. Stop guessing what works.
Coming back from surgery, a tear, or a fracture? Your collagen genes, recovery speed, and inflammation pathways determine how fast and how fully you come back. We build your protocol from that data.
PATRICK SMITH
BCHHP, ND
As a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and Naturopathic Doctor, Patrick evaluates the total athlete — joints, mobility, stability, pain points, strengths, weaknesses, supplementation, and growth potential. Then we go deeper with genetic testing to build protocols backed by science, not guesswork.
With over 20 years immersed in sports at the highest levels — from the training rooms to the sidelines to the practitioner's chair — Patrick understands what it takes to prepare, protect, and optimize athletes. As a former three-sport athlete whose career was cut short by injury, he's experienced the healthcare system from every angle.
This is the same level of care NFL athletes receive.
The 3X4 Genetic Blueprint goes far beyond a basic marker panel — mapping your athlete's DNA across the full spectrum of performance and health: power and endurance, injury risk, inflammation, recovery speed, nutrition needs, hormones, and even how your athlete processes caffeine and medications. This is the depth that separates good from elite:
How your body responds to speed & strength training. Are you genetically wired for explosive power or sustained output? Your power genes determine whether your training should emphasize fast-twitch development or endurance-based strength. We stop wasting time on the wrong approach.
How you respond to long-distance and endurance work. Your genetic ceiling for aerobic capacity and VO2 max potential. Some athletes are built for repeated sprint recovery, others for sustained aerobic output. Your DNA tells us which and how to train for it.
How fast you recover from training and competition. Identifies genetic factors that slow your healing process so we can address them. If your recovery genes are slow, we build a targeted supplement and recovery stack — cryotherapy, anti-inflammatory protocols, sleep optimization — to compensate.
Your baseline fitness level and how quickly your body adapts to training stimulus. Some athletes need different volume and intensity — your DNA tells us what works. We design training load and periodization that matches your genetic response curve.
Genetic influence on soft tissue injuries, ligament weakness, and vulnerability. Know the risk before it becomes a torn ACL or stress fracture. If your genes flag elevated risk, we build a prehabilitation and supplementation protocol to protect you before the injury happens.
The foundation of tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and connective tissue. Variations in collagen genes directly affect tissue structure and breakdown risk. We address collagen deficiencies with targeted type I, II, and III collagen supplementation based on your specific genetic needs.
Bone density, mineral absorption, and fracture risk. Critical for contact sport athletes and those still growing. Your genes tell us how efficiently you absorb calcium and vitamin D — and whether you need more aggressive supplementation to protect your skeletal system.
Blood vessel strength and flexibility during exercise. How efficiently your body delivers oxygen and nutrients to working muscles under load. Athletes with vascular gene variants benefit from targeted nitric oxide support and circulatory optimization.
Your genetic test doesn't stop at athletic performance. The 3X4 Blueprint also reveals how your body handles supplementation, stress, hormones, immune function, and even medication metabolism — giving us the full picture to build a complete protocol.
How your body absorbs and uses vitamins and minerals. Some athletes are genetically inefficient at converting B vitamins, absorbing iron, or utilizing vitamin D. We identify these gaps and fill them with the right forms at the right doses.
Your genes determine how fast you metabolize caffeine and whether pre-workout stimulants help or hurt your performance. Fast metabolizers can use caffeine strategically. Slow metabolizers may be sabotaging their sleep and recovery without knowing it.
Does your body metabolize carbohydrates or fats more efficiently? Your genes reveal how your body processes fuel — and we use that data to build a targeted supplement protocol that supports your metabolic pathways and optimizes energy production.
Chronic inflammation is the silent killer of athletic performance. Your genes show whether your body runs hot on inflammation and whether you have histamine sensitivities that affect recovery, allergies, and gut health.
Testosterone, cortisol, estrogen — how your body produces, uses, and clears hormones directly affects muscle growth, stress response, fat storage, and recovery. We build protocols that support your natural hormone pathways.
Your brain chemistry is genetic. Dopamine, serotonin, and GABA pathways influence motivation, focus under pressure, anxiety, and mental resilience. We address these with targeted supplementation.
Athletes who train hard suppress their immune systems. Your genes show how resilient your immune function is and whether you need additional support to stay healthy through intense training blocks and competition seasons.
How well your body clears toxins, metabolic waste, and environmental stressors at the cellular level. Poor detox pathways affect energy, brain fog, and recovery. We optimize these pathways with targeted support.
Your DNA reveals how your body processes common medications and anesthesia — information that matters for any future surgery, dental procedure, or prescription. We flag it so your medical team can dose safely. Most athletes never have this until they need it.
Most tests give you a report and send you home. We don't. Once your 3X4 results come back, Patrick sits down with you and builds a personalized supplement and recovery protocol based on exactly what your DNA is telling us.
If your genes show slow recovery, we build a recovery stack to fix it. If your collagen pathways are flagged, we get ahead of the injury before it happens. If your body burns fat more efficiently than carbs, we adjust your supplement protocol accordingly. If you have a histamine sensitivity you never knew about, we address it with targeted supplementation.
Every supplement, every dosage, every protocol is specific to your athlete — not a template, not a guess. This is precision sports medicine built from your genetic code.
Patrick walks you through every finding, every pathway, and every recommendation — face to face.
Professional-grade supplements selected specifically for your genetic profile. No generic multivitamins. Precision dosing.
Cryotherapy, infrared, compression — scheduled and dosed based on your recovery genetics, not a cookie-cutter template.
Training adjustments based on your power, endurance, and recovery genetics. Know what type of training your body actually responds to and how to structure volume and intensity.
A complete roadmap — training adjustments, recovery schedule, supplement protocol — all built from your genetic blueprint.
A real example from our practice — identifying details removed. This is the kind of insight a blueprint delivers.
A 19-year-old college baseball pitcher came to us after three surgeries on his throwing arm before the age of 20 — an ulnar nerve procedure plus two elbow operations. The question his family kept asking: was it bad luck, was it throwing volume, or was there something deeper going on?
His DNA told a strikingly consistent story. His body produces more inflammatory signaling than average, breaks down connective tissue — ligaments and tendons — more aggressively, clears inflammatory chemicals more slowly, and has compromised histamine clearance that amplifies the whole picture. Stack that genetic foundation under a pitcher's throwing load, and the elbow becomes the exact place it shows up first.
In plain terms: it wasn't bad luck. There was a genetic basis for why his arm kept breaking down — and, just as importantly, a clear reason it didn't have to keep happening.
The same test also revealed real genetic advantages to build on — a balanced power-and-endurance profile, mixed muscle fiber ideal for a two-way player, favorable recovery and clotting genetics, efficient iron and B12 handling, and a set of protective genes working in his favor. A complete picture: where he's vulnerable and where he's gifted.
Every one of those vulnerable pathways is modifiable. The genes don't change — but the cellular environment they operate in absolutely does. His blueprint became a concrete daily protocol: anti-inflammatory nutrition, collagen and vitamin C timed around throwing, daily omega-3, the right active-form nutrients, histamine-aware food choices, and sleep treated as non-negotiable training equipment. That's the difference between guessing and knowing.
Anonymized example from a real client blueprint, shared for illustration. Genetic results describe biological tendencies, not certainties, and this is educational information — not a medical diagnosis or treatment plan.
This is an actual 3X4 Genetics Blueprint — the real report your athlete receives. It scores 36 metabolic pathways across 6 health categories, gene by gene. Page through the real thing below (tap any page to enlarge) to see the depth of what the evaluation delivers.
Sample 3X4 Genetics Blueprint shown for illustration of report depth. Genetic results describe biological tendencies, not certainties, and are educational information — not a medical diagnosis or treatment plan.
The Blueprint is just the starting point. Here's how we turn those raw genetic results into one connected plan — a plain-English analysis, a supplement protocol, and a training program, all built from the same DNA. Tap any page to read it.
Patrick's plain-English breakdown of what the genetics actually mean for this athlete — turning 36 pathways into clear, prioritized direction.
Exactly what to take and when — an AM/PM protocol built directly from the genetic results to support methylation, recovery, and the pathways that scored highest.
How the training itself is structured around the same profile — built to develop the athlete while respecting their genetic injury risk and recovery needs.
Sample reports shown for illustration of depth. Genetic results describe biological tendencies, not certainties, and are educational information — not a medical diagnosis or treatment plan.
Before we ever look at your DNA, Patrick conducts a comprehensive physical evaluation. This is a hands-on assessment by a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and Naturopathic Doctor — not a form you fill out online.
Pick a date and time that works. The appointment is 90 minutes — full body assessment plus cheek swab for the genetic test. Pay online when you book. HSA/FSA accepted.
Patrick conducts your full body assessment — joints, mobility, stability, pain points, strengths, weaknesses, and athletic potential. Simple cheek swab is collected and sent to the 3X4 lab.
Your 3X4 Genetic Blueprint comes back fully analyzed across every performance and health pathway. Patrick reviews every result and builds your custom protocols before your follow-up.
Sit down 1-on-1 with Patrick. Walk through every finding. Leave with your supplement protocol, recovery plan, and complete plan of action — all built from your DNA.
We know parents worry about what happens to their child's genetic information. Here's exactly what you need to know — no fine print, no surprises.
Your physical cheek swab sample is automatically destroyed by the lab once results are confirmed. Nothing is kept. No DNA sits in a freezer somewhere. It's gone.
Your sample vial is labeled with a kit code only — no name, no personal information. The lab never knows whose DNA they're analyzing. Your identity is completely separate from your sample.
Your genetic data is stored on a completely separate encrypted server from your personal information — they can't be connected. All connections are SSL encrypted and aligned with HIPAA standards.
The federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) makes it illegal for employers or health insurers to discriminate based on genetic information. Your athlete's future is protected by law.
3X4 Genetics never sells your data and will never use it for marketing or share it with third parties without explicit consent. Your genetic information belongs to you — period.
3X4 is a practitioner-grade clinical test — not a consumer ancestry kit. It exists to help you make better health decisions, not to build a database. Your results are interpreted by your practitioner and used solely for your benefit.
HSA / FSA Accepted · Simple cheek swab · Results in 3–4 weeks
Professional-grade. HSA/FSA eligible. The same level of care NFL athletes receive.
