Hey there, welcome to the root cause medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.

On this podcast, we go in depth with leading experts from all walks of life to understand and

improve your health and well-being. Today, I'm talking with friend Dr. Yale Jaffe around the basics of genetics. No, not as it relates to

ancestry, but genetics as it relates to how your body operates on the day-to-day and how you can

really optimize this. Dr. Jaffe is a dietician with a PhD and nutrigenomics. This is where

nutrition and genetics come together.

She's at the forefront of this field and regularly

educates, speaks, podcasts, and writes on the subject.

She's also the co-founder and chief science officer at 3x4 genetics.

Dr. Jaffe is one of my favorite educators, as I personally

find genetics and how our daily micro decisions affect them so fascinating. It was an

absolute pleasure to have her on today as we discussed this complex topic that thankfully she simplified

for us. Here's a clip from today's conversation. The reality is, is there's two parts to this

conversation. And the words I use are insight and action. So we gain insight by doing a genetic test, looking at our spelling changes,

and understanding all those different things that I mentioned about how we respond to the world

around us. But that's only half the equation because the second half of the equation is,

now what do I do? And this is a very exciting world. We actually call this

Nutri Genomics, which is, how do I use nutrition, supplements, environment, lifestyle,

exercise to change the way my genes behave? Because genes are switches. They switch on and they switch

off. And sometimes they switch on and stay on when we switch on and they switch off.

And sometimes they switch on and stay on when we actually want them to switch off.

Sometimes they don't switch on and we want them to switch on.

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