#67 Eating with your Genes, with Registered Dietitian Rachel Clarkson
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
On the show today I’m delighted to welcome Rachel Clarkson. Rachel is a leading Nutrigenomic Specialist Dietitian - using world renowned, next generation technology and expert analysis to create Personalised Wellness programmes for her clients under the name of The DNA Dietitian.
She is a guest lecturer for St Mary’s University MSc in Genetics & Nutrition and sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of two health tech platforms.
On the show today we chat about:
- Her background in dietetics and why she decided to specialise in personalised nutrition
- The basics of what a gene is
- Epigenetics and how this relates to food and environment changes
- The difference between nutrigenetic tests and deterministic gene investigations
- Disease risk versus modifier (metabolic) gene tests
- Why a one size fits all model in medicine and nutrition is not good enough anymore
- Rachel’s approach to consulting with patients in clinic
- How to personalise diets for fertility, obesity and more
- Out of the 10s of 1000s of single nucleotide polymorphisms, how do we determine which ones are important
This is an incredibly interesting field of nutrition and medicine that is definitely something which will become the norm in the future.
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| 0:00.0 | This way of living is actually going to encourage those good genes to be turned on and bad |
| 0:13.4 | genes to be turned off and what that means is you may have genes that are going to predispose |
| 0:19.3 | you to a disease for instance like cancer or Alzheimer's let's say if you live in a way |
| 0:26.7 | that's healthy you can ensure or at least try to ensure that those good genes are going to be switched |
| 0:33.4 | on and the bad genes switched off. Welcome to the Doxxas Kitchen podcast the show about food, |
| 0:41.1 | lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. My name is Dr. Rupi I'm a medical doctor |
| 0:48.1 | I also study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:55.5 | Join me on this podcast where we explore multiple determinants of what allows you to live your best |
| 1:02.6 | life and remember you can sign up to thedoxxas Kitchen.com for the newsletter where we give weekly |
| 1:09.0 | recipes plus tips and hacks on how to improve your lifestyle today. On this episode I'm delighted to |
| 1:16.5 | welcome Rachel Clarkson who is a leading nutritionomic specialist dietitian and we're going to be |
| 1:22.8 | talking about eating with your genes. She uses next generation technology and expert analysis to |
| 1:30.0 | create personalized wellness programs for her clients under the name of the DNA dietitian very catchy. |
| 1:37.0 | She's also a guest lecturer for St Mary's universities masters in genetics and nutrition and sits |
| 1:43.2 | on the scientific advisory board of two health tech platforms. On today's podcast we're going to be |
| 1:49.0 | talking about her background in dietetics and why she decided to specialize specifically in |
| 1:54.6 | personalized nutrition. The basics of what we mean by nutritionomics this is something I spoke about |
| 2:00.8 | in my wrote about rather in my first book and I continued to talk about the impact of food and |
| 2:07.3 | lifestyle on the expression of our genes and we're going to a bit more detail on that today. We |
| 2:12.2 | talk about epigenetics and how that relates to food and environmental changes. The differences |
| 2:18.0 | between nutrient genetic tests and deterministic gene investigations that we do within the healthcare |
| 2:24.8 | service I think is really important this part of the podcast because it really does delineate between |
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