#68 with Alex Swanson: How Genes Affect our Ability to Handle Stress

Meathead Hippie

Emily Schromm

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 600 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This is taken from Part 2: ADRENAL REPAIR with the founder of NUTRITION GENOME, Alex Swanson! Find Alex here: https://www.instagram.com/nutritiongenome/ Test your genes here: https://nutritiongenome.com/ref/21/ Find Adrenal Repair here: https://www.thebodyawarenessproject.com/pages/adrenal FULL SHOW NOTES: 7:30 Alex Swanson’s Personal Background “I started looking at data files with all of these genes and began to connect the dots that I couldn’t before.” Observing genetic pathways and linking them to how people respond to things 9:30 Introducing Nutrition Genome Looking at genetic pathways and how people are genetically different How Alex’s initial interest in this field stemmed from his wife experiencing a horrible reaction to pharmaceutical drugs “Through genetic testing, I was able to pinpoint exactly what happened based on her reaction to those drugs.” 12:30 Genes and Stress Explaining the connection between genes and neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, glutamate, gaba) Describing how our genes can indicate how we will typically respond to life stressors 16:30 Avoiding Stress and Heat Therapy Explaining the hydration component to our adrenals Finding the right heat therapy that will work best for your adrenals 19:30 Genes, Circadian Rhythm and Nighttime Techniques A new research initiative to learn more about the melatonin pathway Discovering sleep sensitivities - A brand new field 23:30 Coffee and Supplements to Regulate Stress Explaining how caticals in caffeine can cause spike dopamine and adrenaline to spike, which has to do with your genetic pathway Magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin B6 can help control our reactions to stress 32:00 Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.) Understanding our migratory routes of our ancestors “Everything in terms of our genes in an accumulation from the things that came before us.” 36:30 Boosting Serotonin How exercise, massages, eating chocolate, etc. help boost serotonin levels The importance of vitamin D and how it relates to where you live in the world Thank you listeners!! Please leave a review if you enjoyed and checkout my links below to get plugged in more to what I'm doing. PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: www.facebook.com/groups/1292792567518714/ Find more on Em here: @emilyschromm www.emilyschromm.com youtube.com/emilyschromm

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0:00.0	Happy Wednesday, everybody. This is Emily Shrong with Meathead Hippie podcast. I am so pumped because shit went down this week. First off, platform strength is officially opening September 22nd. So this is my gym. It's a 24-7 strength and conditioning hybrid gym. I just wanted to talk a little bit about
0:22.0	the classes. I've had a lot of questions on the in-person and online programming. And I have a video
0:28.7	that is linked on the website that you can watch that explains this all in more detail. But really
0:32.9	quickly, this is just a really great hub of trying to bridge the gap between functional fitness,
0:42.1	the hours that you want to do it, and a community.
0:45.6	And you guys know most of my background, and I'm just so excited because I felt like for a long time,
0:51.2	for a few years, I didn't really have a place to go that i really really loved
0:54.6	that had everything i wanted so we created it and the grand opening all of the classes are sold out
1:00.8	which is incredible i can't wait to see you guys september 22nd is um for we will have classes but don't
1:07.3	worry like you can come in drop in say hi i'm going to have a tarot card reader. I'm going to have tea. I'm going to have gluten-free beer. If you just come and sit and hug me and hug everybody that's there, it'll just be incredible. So don't worry if you can't make the class or if you missed out on the reservation. We will be there all day starting at 8 a.m. I'll have more details about the tarot card reading sign up.
1:29.6	She's actually going to be a podcast guest before the tarot card reading so that you guys can get a vibe and you can reserve a 15 minute slot with her.
1:37.4	It's Laura Mahoney. So I'm just super jazzed about that because we clearly have the meathead part figured out with the gym opening, but now we get some
1:45.3	hippie. And if you want to check out the online programming, it starts September 1st. It's $39 a month,
1:51.3	and it is the programming we're following in the gym. And the gym classes and the online programming
1:56.7	are structured where you get to pick your path. So I think everyone should be strong. Being strong is a
2:02.3	necessity of being human. So you will always do a lift with the class or on your own. And then you get
2:08.3	to pick your accessory work. So you're either going to do more cardio, which is my burn. You're going to do
2:13.2	more hypertrophy, which is my bodybuilding, which is called the build, or you're going to do more
2:18.4	Olympic lifting and fast twitch muscle training, which is with the athlete. So working really hard with
2:24.6	my partner, actually my coworker, Wade, who's just a boss at programming. We just are so jazzed
2:32.0	about it. So check everything out, Platformstrength.com.
2:34.4	Come to the grand opening if you can. And if you can't, don't worry, we will see you come drop in anytime.
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