Can Getting Your DNA Tested Help You Optimize Your Diet and Training?
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Anyone who’s read my blog (particularly the piece on blood pressure tests) knows how little stock I take in lab tests as a barometer of overall health. Whether it’s BP, cholesterol, testosterone, thyroid or any other of the usual battery of biomarkers, what we get is just a snapshot of one point in time in an often very dynamic range for each vital area. in DNA testing we have a static, immutable recipe that doesn’t change over time, but is profoundly affected by the epigenetic inputs we decide to present.
(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Brock Armstrong)
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| 0:00.0 | The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson. |
| 0:07.0 | And is narrated by Brock Armstrong. |
| 0:12.0 | Can getting your DNA tested help you optimize your diet and training? |
| 0:19.0 | Last month, I received an unexpected email request from a man named Craig Pickering. |
| 0:25.6 | Send me your saliva. |
| 0:27.6 | Hmm. Craig works for DNA fit, a genetic testing company using customers' DNA results to optimize their diet and training. |
| 0:38.5 | He's a former Olympic 100 meter and Bob Slay, Bob Sled to us, Yanks, athlete, |
| 0:45.4 | and a longtime reader of the blog who's helping elite athletes, weekend warriors, |
| 0:50.9 | and regular folks alike, discover their genes preferred diet and training style. |
| 0:57.0 | Intrigued, I received the testing kit and sent the sample back. Sure, why not? I'm game. |
| 1:05.0 | The results came back quickly, which I'll summarize. You tolerate caffeine well. You tolerate lactose well. You are very |
| 1:15.1 | unlikely to develop celiac disease. You can recover from training quickly from a genetic standpoint. |
| 1:21.6 | You have a higher than average soft tissue injury risk. This doesn't mean you definitely will get injured, |
| 1:29.7 | just that you should expect recurrent tendon, ligament, and connective tissue issues. |
| 1:35.0 | You have a 57 to 43 endurance power split. This means that you generally respond better to endurance exercise, but you also respond pretty |
| 1:47.7 | well to power-based training. |
| 1:50.7 | You have a high sensitivity to carbs, which means that you tolerate them poorly in regards |
| 1:56.1 | to body weight control and general health. |
| 2:00.0 | Your fat tolerance is higher than your carb tolerance. |
| 2:04.7 | You have an elevated genetic need for omega-3 fats and vitamin D. You have versions of certain |
| 2:12.7 | inflammation genes that predispose you to higher baseline levels of inflammation, |
| 2:17.3 | which omega-3s specifically |
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