222: Your genes are not your destiny | Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D.: “If we know our genes, we know not how we're going to die—we know how we're going to live.” Bland, the father of functional medicine, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to approach your genes with a functional medicine lens, plus: *The top five plant-based foods for longevity* *The four quadrants of function in functional medicine* *How to practice functional medicine if you don’t have access to a practitioner* *Why you might want to drink more beer* *The next superfood and why it's so hard to harvest* This episode is Sponsored by Breyers. Visit Breyers.com to find out more about Breyers CarbSmart frozen sweet treats! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.0	You're on for a treat today as today's guest, Dr. Jeffrey Bland is known as the father of functional
0:54.9	medicine. Yep, functional medicine guys, the practice we talk so much about here
0:59.2	with doctors like Mark Hyman, Frank Lippman, Bob Raundry, among so many others.
1:03.7	They all practice functional medicine, and it all came from Jeff.
1:08.6	Today we're going to talk about the founding of functional medicine, the future of health, including what Jeff calls the omics revolution, where we'll cover
1:16.4	everything from DNA, longevity, immunity, and even beer, and his new favorite gluten, which is truly cutting edge.
1:25.0	Jeff it is an honor to have you here.
1:29.0	Well Jason I can tell you it's an honor for me to be here.
1:31.0	You know I'd like to interview you because I think
1:33.6	what you've done here is nothing short of just remarkable so thanks well thank you
1:37.5	so much you are very kind but seriously you are I've heard about you for God I think 10 years since I've known
1:46.9	Frank Lippin the father of functional medicine it all started with you and can you walk us through the founding of the Institute for
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