A nutrigenetic panel read alongside how you actually eat, your body measurements and a counsellor's time — turned into a plan for weight and metabolic health that you follow up on. Not a DNA report you read once and file away.
Pilot list open · available across India
Every gene on the panel is reported the same way: which gene, how strong the evidence is, what it relates to, and what happens next. This is the shape of one line of it.
A gene is never read on its own. Your genotype is one small factor; your measurements and habits matter more.
Join the pilot listRead from your sample. None is filled in here — this is not anyone’s result.
What you usually get
What Nuclivia does
Pulse, by Nuclivia
A report is one afternoon; a plan is months. Pulse will be available to everyone. It is where the follow-up happens — your devices, your food, your sleep and your plan, measured against yourself.
Health Connect on Android and Apple Health on iPhone, so any watch or ring that syncs to your phone counts.
An Indian food list — dal, roti, idli, poha, chai — with vegetarian and non-vegetarian marked.
Sleep, activity and heart rate compared with your last seven days, not with a population average.
A weekly plan that adapts to your recovery, and the plan from your consultation, in one place.
Coming to Android and iPhone. Not in the stores yet.
Screens from the current build, shown with the app’s built-in sample data.
Most consumer genetics oversells single variants. Every gene carries a published evidence tier, and only genes with a clear interpretation protocol and a counselling script behind them go into a report.
Tier 1
A clear biological mechanism and a practical action. Your genotype shows how an enzyme works — not what symptoms you will have.
Used early, with conservative wording.
Tier 2
Well replicated, including in Indian studies, but each variant shifts the odds only a little, and the effect runs through your body and lifestyle.
Used as context for your plan — never for a deterministic diet.
Tier 3
Polygenic signals, and findings that did not hold up in large studies.
Held for research. Not sold as insight.
Genes under evidence review. The final panel is fixed before launch, and any gene that does not hold up is left out rather than softened.
In 218,000 adults, being physically active cut the extra obesity risk from the common FTO variant by about a quarter.
People carrying the FTO variant lose as much weight on diet and exercise programmes as everyone else.
Across Indian studies, a common TCF7L2 variant is linked to about 1.5 times the odds of type 2 diabetes.
Rathod et al., The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, 2024 · PubMed · DOI
Trouble digesting milk sugar is common in India, and more common in the south than the north.
Babu et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2009 · PubMed · DOI
Telling people their DNA-based risk did not, on its own, change how they ate, moved or smoked — which is why results come with counselling and follow-up.
What we will not claim. No diagnosis. No cure. No guaranteed weight loss from a genotype. No prediction of disease from a single variant. Nuclivia supports weight and metabolic health through diet, activity and follow-up — and says so plainly.
Rice load and rice type. Roti and millets. Mustard oil versus refined. Fermented soybean, bamboo shoot, smoked pork. Sugary chai and packaged snacks. Generic nutrition databases carry almost none of this, which is why most tools quietly score an Indian plate as though it were a Western one.
We started with the hardest regional cuisines to model, because a diet engine that handles those handles the rest. Available across India from day one.
One sequence in four parts. No result reaches you without a person there to explain it.
Steps 03 and 04 · Sample, lab and quality control
Before
A short screener tells you whether this is useful for you.
Plain-language consent, separate for testing and for research.
The sample
Saliva or blood, barcoded, with the turnaround stated up front.
Validated assays. No report will leave the lab without a quality-control sign-off.
Your consultation
A food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) built for Indian diets, and an eating-behaviour profile.
Waist and hip, measured. Nuclivia Plus adds a body-composition (BIA) reading.
Evidence-graded results, the size of each effect in plain numbers, and what not to worry about.
30 minutes with a trained counsellor. In every package, and not optional.
After
Check-ins at the points your package includes, to measure whether anything actually changed.
Every package includes
2 genetic markers
The essentials, and nothing you don't need to begin.
For you if you want to start with the core panel and be among the first.
Pricing being finalised
Main package
5 genetic markers
Adds
For you if weight, metabolic health or fitness is the goal.
Pricing being finalised
After the pilot
5–10 genetic markers
Adds
For you if you want the fullest picture, with a physician and a nutritionist involved.
Not offered in the pilot
We're validating lab costs before publishing prices. Join the pilot list and you'll be told the price before you're asked for anything.
Join the pilot listA test you trust is a test you can trace to people. Both founders are reachable, by name, before you send us a sample.
Founder · Science and commercial
Doctoral researcher in nutrigenetics, leading Nuclivia’s science and commercial work.
Co-founder · Technology and operations
Leads Nuclivia’s technology and, jointly with Vivek, its operations.
No. Nuclivia is a lifestyle and nutrition counselling service, not a diagnostic service. It does not diagnose or treat, and where a value looks clinically significant, it tells you to see a doctor.
A small panel of genetic markers (SNPs) — 2, or 5 in Nuclivia Plus — alongside a food frequency questionnaire and body measurements. Nuclivia Plus adds a body-composition (BIA) reading taken at your consultation.
Every gene carries a published evidence tier. Tier 1 covers direct nutrient metabolism and is used with conservative wording. Tier 2 genes are well replicated but each shifts the odds only a little, so they are used as context, never for a deterministic diet. Tier 3 is held for research and not sold as insight. Nuclivia does not predict disease from a single variant.
Not on its own. Studies show that telling people their DNA-based risk does not by itself change how they eat or move. That is why every result comes with counselling, measurement and follow-up — those do most of the work.
Yes — in every package, and it is not optional. Every report is explained in a 30-minute session with a trained counsellor.
Your identity will be stored separately from your health data, and analysis will run against a pseudonymous record that names nobody. Research consent will be separate from testing consent, and you will be able to withdraw and have your data deleted, with confirmation of what was deleted and anything the law requires us to keep.
Pricing is being finalised while lab costs are validated. If you join the pilot list, you will be told the price before you are asked for anything.
Follow-up check-ins, at the points your package includes, to measure whether anything actually changed.
The pilot will be small, closely supervised and followed up. We'll write to you before bookings open — with the price, and what the pilot asks of you.
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