Do Your Genes Determine Your Destiny?
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Epigenetics suggests that our behavior can influence which of our genes are turned on or off. This has been one of the biggest breakthroughs in medicine. Predisposition is not pre-destiny and a familial history of disease does not render you powerless.
In this mini-episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, we revisit two recent interviews in which Dr. Hyman and his guests discuss epigenetics and how things like food, movement, sleep, detoxification, and mindfulness influence our genes to create health or disease.
Dr. Marwan Sabbagh is a board-certified neurologist and considered one of the leading experts in Alzheimer’s and dementia. He is on the editorial board for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and BMC Neurology and is now editor in chief of Neurology and Therapy and is the author of The Alzheimer’s Answer: Reduce Your Risk and Keep Your Brain Healthy, and The Alzheimer’s Prevention Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Boost Brain Health. Dr. Sabbagh’s latest book is, Fighting for My Life: How to Thrive in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s.
Alberto Villoldo is a medical anthropologist and psychologist. He is the founder of the world-renowned Four Winds Society and of the Light Body School. Alberto has authored several incredible books including his latest book, Grow A New Body.
Listen to Dr. Hyman’s full-length interview with Dr. Marwan Sabbagh
https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrMarwanSabbagh
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this mini episode of the doctor's pharmacy. |
| 0:02.8 | It's one of the fundamental tents of functional medicine, which is that your genes interact with your environment |
| 0:07.6 | to create who you are at any moment. |
| 0:10.6 | And when you say environment, I mean food, exercise, stress, relationships, connection, love, meaning, everything. |
| 0:18.0 | Right. |
| 0:19.0 | All those things are things that we have control over. |
| 0:21.8 | While it is true that your genes can predispose you to many health challenges, predisposition is not the same as pre-dustin. |
| 0:28.2 | We do not need to be rendered powerless by our family history of disease. |
| 0:32.1 | Hi, I'm Kaya Paroet, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast. |
| 0:36.4 | In two recent interviews, Dr. Hyman and his guests spoke about epigenetics and how our behavior can influence |
| 0:41.9 | which of our genes are turned on or off. |
| 0:44.6 | Let's listen in as Dr. Hyman talks with leading expert in Alzheimer's and dementia research Dr. Marwan Sabah. |
| 0:50.8 | So epigenetics is a fairly new field, it's very exciting. |
| 0:55.2 | And the idea is that we can say that to things like diet, exercise, lifestyle, stress, |
| 1:01.6 | and sleep, lack of sleep, that you're turning genes on and off. |
| 1:05.9 | And that we want it, in many cases, to turn genes off, but in some cases, we want to turn genes on, |
| 1:12.6 | and that would alter our health. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, and it's so possible. |
| 1:15.8 | I mean, food is one of the most important and prevalent things that we are connected to every day that |
| 1:22.3 | alter our gene expression. |
| 1:23.7 | And this is one of the fundamental ideas of functional medicine. |
| 1:26.0 | So you'd broccoli, it tastes good, but it also upregulates genes that increase |
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