Dos and Don’ts for Genetic Health with Dr. Ben Lynch

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Treating your genes is a relatively new concept. And it can be tempting to think you can change the course of your health by simply discovering and addressing a dysfunction in one particular gene, say, MTHFR, COMT, or DAO. In this episode, Dr. Ben Lynch, a naturopathic physician with expertise in genetic health, walks us through why that isn’t the case, and why returning to the fundamentals is critical to optimizing your genes “upstream.” https://drruscio.com/?p=34859

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
0:15.2	To make sure you're up to date on this and other important topics, visit Dr. Roushso.com and sign up to receive weekly updates.
0:22.9	That's DRR-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.
0:27.0	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	any disease.
0:33.2	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.1	Now, let's head to the show.
0:39.6	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Dr. Roosha Radio.
0:41.6	This is Dr. Roosho. Today I'm here with Dr. Ben Lynch, and we're going to be talking about genes.
0:46.5	And I'm very excited to have this conversation, hopefully dispel some confusion.
0:50.6	So, Ben, thank you so much for coming on the show today.
0:53.4	Awesome to be here, Michael. Thanks for having me.
0:55.0	Yeah, I mean, this is a conversation I've been looking forward to having for a while.
0:59.0	We just offline talked about the confusion regarding this topic, and I'm looking forward very much sort of jumping into that and dispelling some confusion.
1:07.0	But in case people haven't heard your name before, get us up to speed briefly on
1:11.0	who you are, what your training has been, and what you're currently doing. I'm a guy that likes to
1:16.0	figure things out. I like to know the why behind things, because if you understand the why behind
1:20.5	things, it's a lot easier to do them. You become more empowered to do them, and you might be
1:24.7	more empowered to not do them if they're harmful for you.
1:29.8	So understanding the why is what I do.
1:36.4	And so I use the why of, you know, health, like chronic disease or actually trying to prevent disease and unborn kids by optimizing the life of the mothers, the future mom and the future
1:41.7	dad, you know, and if you do that, then the baby can
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