Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint Podcast. I have a very interesting episode for you today with Kashif Khan, who is the founder of the DNA company.

All right, Kashif, welcome to the show. So first of all, let's talk about the difference between genetics and functional genetics,

or genomics and functional genomics.

How do you distinguish between those two?

So genetics is most likely what a lot of people are familiar with and what they think

is possible, which is let me run a test, find out what version of each gene I have, like the

study of the gene version, the variant, or if not variant, the normal version. And what propensity

or disease does that point to? So I get something that says,

I have an 80% chance of Alzheimer's and good luck. Right? That's genetic. So that's where the science

needed to start there. Like let's understand what all these genes do. And let's start to research them.

And the human genome

was only fully finished being sequenced this year or last year I should say 2022 right

it's in a functional genomics is we already know enough about what each gene does how do we

consider the epigenetic habits of lifestyle environment nutrition, nutrition, and take us away from this probability

or propensity based, you got an 80% chance of Alzheimer's to, why did 20% not get it? What do I do?

Like, how do I be that person? I don't want to just walk around and wait. So, and that, that layer

of research didn't exist because the geneticists

were sitting in one silo studying the genes. Clinicians were over another side helping people,

nobody filled the gap. So functional genus is exactly that. Genes reported in the biological

pathways that they actually occur in the body, as opposed to this gene, this gene, this gene,

which is not the way the body works. There's systems that we already understand. And then the

epigenetic factors that pull you in either direction, that turn the dial on, are you in the 80% or

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