Hi eillac, Welcome to the ApoE4.Info community. It seems to me that you may have intended to be replying to rara93, who began this thread. If you’d like a person to be notified that you have replied , you need to use the quotation marks in the upper right hand corner of that person’s post, as I have done with yours. You can get information on how to do this, and many other useful tips at How-To Get the Most out of the ApoE4.info website, a section in the Wiki.eillac wrote:Hi all! I am also a 26 year old that found out I'm 4/4 from 23andMe (and subsequent investigation on Promethease). I confirmed that this wasn't a fluke by also looking at the gene on my parents' raw AncestryDNA files. I don't have any advice other than to say that other people in the same situation are out there, and it's impossible to predict the future.
If you haven’t found it yet, and are interested in learning about the ApoE4 allele, the Primer is an excellent place to begin. It provides an overview of risks associated with the ApoE4 allele and also gives prioritized steps for minimizing the potential negative impacts, and has a list of biomarkers that are important to follow.
If you’d like to share more about yourself, a good place to introduce yourself is in Our Stories.
While I agree with you that it is impossible to predict the future, personally I believe that the lifestyle choices that each of us makes has a huge impact on gene expression. We can’t predict the future, but we can move things in the direction of longterm health, making that much more likely . Getting plenty of exercise and good sleep, maintaining a healthy BMI and eating in such a way that one does not develop insulin resistance , and reducing stress are all important, non-controversial steps for maintaining the longterm health of body &mind.