279: How to age backwards: your genetics are not your fate - Dr. Kara Fitzgerald

Women's Wellness ON AIR WITH ELLA

Ella Lucas-Averett

Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

5 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

YES! You can reduce your biological age. Your genes don't dictate your fate, and age doesn’t dictate how you feel. The root cause of all diseases is NOT driven by genetics.

We start out technical, but then we get really practical.

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"Your genes don't dictate your fate, and age doesn’t dictate how you feel. The root cause of all diseases is not driven by genetics." - Dr. Kara Fitzgerald

In this episode:

Aging appears to be driven by DNA methylation – a process that influences which genes are turned on and which are turned off.
There are predictable DNA methylation patterns from in utero to centenarians, so you can very reliably predict how old someone is using these patterns.
Life expectancy in the United States is on the decline.
Our growing understanding of epigenetics suggests that we can reduce the risk of all diseases at once by reducing bio age.
Your genes don't dictate your fate: age doesn’t dictate how you feel.
Specific foods and lifestyle practices have been shown to favorably influence DNA methylation.
Address stress as if your life depends on it because it DOES

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0:00.0	If the aging journey is housed in the DNA methylation, and that we can actually action on and shift, as our study and others suggest, and aging is the biggest risk factor of the chronic diseases.
0:10.4	If we can reverse our biological age with our lifestyle choices, then we should be able to, by extension, reduce the risk of all of the chronic diseases that befall us in this country.
0:25.3	Welcome. You're on air with Ella where we share simple strategies and tips from people who are doing
0:30.4	something better than we are, whether it's wellness or relationships to just living better and
0:35.9	with more energy or changing your mindset to accomplish
0:39.1	more in your own life and succeeding however you define it.
0:43.0	This is where we share the best of what we're learning from the experts and we're learning more
0:46.8	every day.
0:48.1	Live better.
0:49.2	Start now.
0:50.4	Let's go.
0:54.0	Hey, you're on air with Ella and today I am joined by Dr. Kara Fitzgerald, whom I'm very excited to welcome to the show.
1:01.3	Hey, Dr. Fitzgerald, how are you?
1:03.1	I am great.
1:04.1	Thanks.
1:04.7	Good to be with you, too.
1:05.8	You wrote a book that the world needs to know about.
1:08.9	It's called Younger You, Reduce Your Bio Age and Live
1:11.6	Longer Better. Why did you write this book? Well, I wanted to get the information out in its
1:17.2	entirety. So we conducted a research study. We started our study in 2018. We published in
1:23.6	2021. It was an eight-week intervention, but research takes a long time. We used a diet and
1:28.4	lifestyle intervention, and we measured biological age, and we'll talk about that. And the take home
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