Dr. Jeremy Koenig: Bringing Genetics to the People
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jeremy Koenig is the Founder and CEO of Athletigen, a sports genetics company with a mission to educate and empower the community with their personal genetic information. This interview makes a great Part 2 to the last episode with Dr. Richard Lee. With Jeremy, we really get into his experience building a business and being on the front lines of bringing genetics research and science out into the world. Juliet and Kelly have had their DNA analyzed with Athletigen and we get into specifics of what Athletigen can offer.
For more info on the partnership with MobilityWOD, check out Athletigen!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:12.5 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:13.8 | And this is the Ready State. |
| 0:22.6 | J-Star, I am excited about this interview. |
| 0:25.6 | We've got Dr. Jeremy Koenig talking about actionable genetics, the real takeaway things that you can do. |
| 0:32.6 | Now, just to sum this all up, remember, ready state is about trying to affect all of the available psychological and physiologic sort of biologic availability. |
| 0:44.9 | So how much can you control with better information? |
| 0:49.2 | And that's what this conversation is about today. |
| 0:51.3 | You know, our friend Jeremy is a total badass. He was a varsity track |
| 0:55.7 | and field athlete. He has his PhD in biochemistry. And that's in college. Yeah, sorry, |
| 1:00.7 | that was in college. PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology. He did his postdoc training |
| 1:05.8 | in genetics. He was a professor of nutrigenomics. He has 10 years experience coaching professional athletes. |
| 1:13.0 | But his latest mission is with his company Athletogen, and he is really trying to bring the delivery and application of genetics to everyone. |
| 1:21.0 | I met him originally at Altus, which is an Olympic track and field development center in Phoenix. |
| 1:27.2 | He trained there was one of their athletes, actually, |
| 1:29.8 | and really realized that there was some of his work |
| 1:33.7 | could immediately transfer over and improve the lives and performance |
| 1:37.6 | of the athletes that he was training with and working with. |
| 1:40.1 | And we're also working with him now |
| 1:41.9 | to make the MobilityWod athletician DNA kit. |
| 1:45.2 | The problem with this feels like far science, right, is that how do you integrate into your life |
| 1:51.0 | and how do we take this really radical set of information and actually make it actionable and |
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