66. How We Can Optimize Our Health by Analyzing Our DNA: Interview with Dr. Anthony Jay
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
A biochemist and a bodybuilder walk into a bar…
We're all trying to optimize our health by eating clean, working out, and implementing certain bio hacks, but how precise are you in your attempts? Dr. Anthony Jay thinks you can get really specific by looking at your DNA and analyzing what your genes say.
Dr. Anthony Jay started out as a "virus designer". He would make viruses in a lab to help transport DNA into certain cells. He now works at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota researching stem cells, epigenetics, and infrared light and is the President and CEO of AJ Consulting Company.
Learn how you can optimize your healthy by analyzing your DNA.
*DISCLAIMER: Dr. Jay's recommendations are based on Kris's specific DNA results and not meant to be taken as truth for each and every person. To learn more about getting your own specific recommendations please reach out to Dr. Jay.
Time Stamps
- Recap of what Kris and Dr. Jay talked about in Episode 40 [1:37]
- What Dr. Jay did as a "virus designer" [4:15]
- How Dr. Jay got into DNA consulting [9:29]
- A deep dive into Kris's genetics and how he can optimize his health based on his specific results [14:00]
- Adverse effects associated with training [33:56]
- What are Telomeres? [47:10]
- Why stem cells are great [49:29]
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| 0:00.0 | That's how it goes. |
| 0:03.1 | All right, what's up, everybody? |
| 0:04.5 | Chris Gethin here. |
| 0:05.7 | I figured I would press record because I am sat across from Dr. Anthony Jay, and we have |
| 0:12.8 | been talking for ages. |
| 0:14.7 | And I thought, you know what? |
| 0:15.7 | I should press record because we could continue to talk for hours and go down many rabbit holes. So we are recording this |
| 0:24.2 | in the studio in Boise, Idaho, and Dr. Anthony Jay. Second time on the show, he was in episode 40, |
| 0:33.2 | is back here, this time in Idaho, doing a little bit of fishing while he's here I guess |
| 0:37.9 | always doctor Anthony Jay thank you very much for getting your butt over here and being on |
| 0:42.4 | the show again thanks for having me this is great good coffee nice Jeep yeah been wanting to see |
| 0:48.9 | yeah well you can have a little rip around in it later if you like oh yeah you know me yeah for |
| 0:54.1 | sure so great to have you in town and there's so many rabbit holes that we can have a little rip around in it later if you like. Oh yeah. You know me. Yeah, for sure. So, |
| 0:54.6 | great to have you in town and there's so many rabbit holes that we can go into. That's for sure. |
| 1:01.3 | Just in case people did not listen to the episode 40, can you tell our viewers and listeners a little bit about yourself and why you decided to start getting into viruses? |
| 1:16.5 | Oh man, the virus is right off the bat, Chris. |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah, well, in episode 40, we talked mostly about artificial estrogens. |
| 1:24.4 | And my book, Estrogeneration, which deals with the problem that we have today in our |
| 1:29.3 | culture with these chemicals that are all around us. I mean, BPA is a great example. A lot of people |
| 1:35.0 | know BPA is bad for you, but they don't realize it's bad because it's acting like estrogen in |
| 1:40.0 | your body. And it can even throw off your blood. You know, like people test their blood and it says their estrogen is fine. But if they're full of BPA, their blood is full of BPA, nobody's testing for that. Right. But it still acts like estrogen, right? So it's triggering the estrogen response. And so that's just the tip of the iceberg on what we talked about because there's other chemicals. |
| 2:06.9 | There's, you know, soy, which we'll probably get into a little bit today with the DNA and hormone genes. |
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