Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K.

Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and today's podcast is so interesting.

We are going to talk all about epigenetics, and this is so exciting because we'll be able to see molecular change and DNA structure that predicts if your chronologic age and biologic age are lining up, if you're getting older or younger from different interventions.

We are interviewing Christiana Banila, who is harnessing the power of epigenomics for this really precise diagnostics.

Christiana is CSO, chief scientific officer and co-founder of MitraBio, and this is a Kulsaventures-backed startup.

And this is really interesting, non-invasive skin testing, and we're looking at data modeling epigenetics, which shows how your skin is aging

from different interventions, different topicals. It's such exciting technology.

Christina graduated from Oxford and Princeton University, where she studied biochemistry and

public health economics, and she specialized in molecular diagnostic development.

She has her PhD from Queen Mary University of London, all about developing self-sampling

epigenetics-based testing for early cancer detection.

And that test that she had developed performed well in clinical trials,

and it's recently been implemented by the NHS cervical screening program.

So that's wonderful.

Congratulations.

Christina has been named Forbes 30 under 30 for Europe, Science and Healthcare in 2023.

Welcome to the podcast.

Thank you.

Good to be here.

Yeah.

So I'm so super excited.

Can you talk a little bit about, like, for the lay audience, what is epigenetics the study of and how does it influence our behaviors or vice versa?

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