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Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. Well, I've got some good news for you today, folks. Your genes do not determine your fate. Flash.

For example, even if you have the Alzheimer's gene, which about 30% of people carry like we've heard in the news that actor Chris Hemsworth has, that doesn't mean it's your destiny. Why is that?

Well, you can disrupt this doom and gloom that a DNA test may reveal by making simple changes to your diet and lifestyle that can have dramatic effects.

And this is why I've invited my guest back on the podcast today. Founder of the DNA company, Kashif Khan has created a very unique DNA analysis that not only tells you what you're genetically predisposed to, but also gives you real-time actionable steps to disrupt and fix these, quote, bad genes.

And to prove it, I'm using myself as the guinea pig today. The DNA company has done blood work on me and Kashif, and will reveal the results right now, like I promised a few months ago.

And boy, is it interesting? Now, quick disclaimer here. This episode is for educational purposes, and it's about choices I'm making for myself. Don't make changes to your routine without consulting your doctor. And I'm my doctor, so I'm consulting myself. How's that?

So, stay tuned to hear the surprising results and what tweaks I can make to disrupt these bad genes. We'll be right back.

I got into the Alzheimer's gene as a heart surgeon because this gene, the Apple E4 gene, either the 3, 4 or the 4, 4, definitely increases your risk of heart disease. And there's no question about that.

But we now know that these are modifiable things. And I have, for instance, I have a gentleman from Los Angeles who's now 98 years old. He carries the Alzheimer's gene.

He drives to see me twice a year. He runs his company. His three daughters will not let him retire. And I assure you that he does not have Alzheimer's.

And yet he's 98 years old and carries the gene. And you're right. These are not, this is not destiny. But what we're going to talk about today is knowledge's power.

And your story, I think, is illustrative of knowledge's power. And I think I've told we measure, for instance, the Apple E4 gene and all of my patients.

Some people are reticent to have that measured. And break, boy, I'll tell you, you're much better off knowing you carry that gene because there are action steps to take care of that problem.

Yeah, the belief has been, I don't want to know, because I don't want to things I do for the next 30 years waiting for it to start. No, it's, you want to know, because now you know where to focus.

I'm driving to see Dr. Gandhi twice a year for what purpose to work on something. What should I work on? Right. So your genes will drive what biological function do I not do well? And what potentially could come out of that?

So I need to support that. And if I support it to the level of the person that has the good version of the gene, I'm not getting the problem. That's all we're trying to say.

It doesn't end at the bad gene and that's the starting point. Now that's where we focus. That's where we intervene. That problem shouldn't happen.

Let me preface this with quite frankly, I don't endorse people running out and getting a DNA test because, and I think because she feel agree with me that the vast majority of these genes, we maybe don't know quite what they do yet.

And a great number of them there at the moment isn't an actionable item that we can take based on those genes, right?

Yeah. When it comes to rare genetic conditions, unless there's some therapeutic that's going to come along to turn it on or off.

You can't really do much. You have it. It's an eight, but that's less than 2% of health care. 90% like actually the number of our $4 trillion health care budget, 3.6 trillion is spent on chronic disease management.

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