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The Dr. Hyman Show

Are Your Genes Making You Fat and Sick?

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.59.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Levels. You may be surprised to learn that your lifestyle and food choices are much better indicators of your health and weight than your genes. While it is true that some genes can predispose you to obesity, type 2 diabetes, or heart disease, predisposition is not predestination. In fact, 90 percent of our current health is controlled by the environment in which we bathe our genes—the food we eat, our exercise regimen, our resilience in the face of stress, and our exposure to environmental toxins.  In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I talk about how your diet and lifestyle influence your genes and my top strategies for weight loss and optimal health. This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Levels.  Access more than 3,000 specialty lab tests with Rupa Health. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com today. Right now, Levels is offering an additional two free months of their annual membership. Head over to levels.link/HYMAN to learn more. Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): So much of what we think might be genetic is actually environmental (2:34 / 1:00)   What determines your phenotype? (5:35 / 3:52)  Research looking at genes and obesity (6:58 /  4:58)  Learnings from the Pima Indian population (9:34 / 7:48)  Dealing with food and sugar addiction (13:16 / 10:53)  There’s no one-size-fits-all diet (15:39 / 13:40)  Seven ways to simplify weight loss (18:40 / 16:49)  Mentioned in this episode The Blood Sugar Solution  10-Day Detox Diet  Function Health Free Sleep Master Class

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy your genes. I guess I do play a role

0:05.0

But they don't determine your destiny regardless of what your genes are and other health everybody can start with these strategies

0:12.6

Everyone it's Dr. Mark as a functional medicine doctor looking at hormones organic acids nutrient levels and flammatory factors gut bacteria and so many other

0:21.7

Internal variables it helps me find the most effective path to health and healing from my patients

0:26.2

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0:58.9

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1:05.8

You know I'm always experimenting with the latest health advances and I found that tracking my blood glucose is one of the most insightful and

1:12.2

Accessible ways to understand my unique reactions to food poor glucose control is tied to all kinds of issues like weight gain fatigued

1:19.8

Type 2 diabetes Alzheimer's heart disease and stroke

1:22.8

But it can be hard you know exactly how your body's reacting to the glucose in different kinds of foods because we're all different

1:27.8

That's where levels comes in it's a state-of-the-art app right on your phone that pairs with a continuous glucose monitor

1:33.3

To show you how food and lifestyle factors affect your health in real time with levels

1:37.8

I realized I could make helpful tweaks in some of my favorite recipes

1:40.8

For example adding extra avocado and a few less blueberries to my morning smoothie kept my blood glucose smooth and even

1:46.9

Well, too much fruit and too little fat says me into a spike right now

1:50.6

Levels has a special offer for my audience if you had to levels dot link for slash hymen. That's levls.lynk

1:58.2

For slash hymen and now let's get back to this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy

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