Ep. 215 How to Use Nutrigenomics to Optimize Health with Kristina Hess

Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Menopause, and Science for Women 35+

Cynthia Thurlow

Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

I am delighted to have the opportunity to converse with Kristina Hess today! Kristina is a premier health coach, licensed dietician, and nutritionist with a functional and integrative approach. Everyone should feel free to experiment with different types of nutritional dogma. However, we should always stay open-minded and lean into whatever our bodies need. I love that Kristina has married the trajectory of her life with genetics and nutrition. So I asked her to join me on the podcast to discuss nutrigenomics. In this episode, Kristina shares her backstory and talks about growing up and living all over the world, her history of veganism, and healing her body with a nutrient-dense, whole food, primal/paleo diet. She gives some examples of genetic tendencies and low penetrants. She and I dive into gene variants, nutritional choices that include the use of ethanol or alcohol, seed oils, lifestyle choices, and testing. Kristina also provides recommendations for working with individuals trained in the unique form of genetics and study of nutrition and gene expression, known as nutrigenomics. I hope you will gain a lot from today’s fascinating conversation with Kristina Hess! Stay tuned for more! Special announcement: I will be an honored guest at the Keto Symposium, a one-and-a-half-day event in New York City on the 23rd and 24th of September, to speak, along with others like the amazing Ben Azadi! IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Kristina talks about the Keto Symposium, the very first low-carb conference on the ketogenic lifestyle and fasting. She explains why it is so special. Kristina shares her interesting backstory. How Kristina finally realized that the vegan lifestyle was damaging her body. Kristina explains what nutrigenomics is. Some gene variants are older and have not changed or adapted to more modernized food. Kristina explains how lifestyle choices can impact those variants. What can people do to impact their gene expression? It is important to take your gene data to a qualified professional for interpretation and talk to them about your lifestyle. Kristina discusses some of the more common gene combinations she sees that could cause weight loss resistance. Kristina talks about isolated low penetrant gene SNPs. Be a detective and do some testing when in doubt. Kristina talks about alcohol and how it could impact epigenetic signaling. Why should you avoid consuming seed oils? Some lifestyle habits everyone should adopt. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Kristina Hess On her website The Keto Symposium will be taking place in Manhattan on September 23rd and 24th. Buy your tickets now because the space is limited. They are running a promotion for the whole month of June: Use the promo code KETO10 to get 10% off the ticket price!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.
0:07.0	This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.
0:14.0	My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the
0:19.2	health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.
0:23.4	Today I have the opportunity to connect with Christina Haas who's a Premier Health Coach and
0:34.2	licensed dietician and nutritionist, with a functional and integrative approach.
0:38.7	One of the reasons why I wanted to bring her on board was to talk about the impact of
0:44.8	NutriGenomics, which is the byproduct of nutrition and gene expression. We
0:49.6	dove deep into her backstory, which included things like living all over the world and her history of
0:56.2	veganism and how going to a nutrient dense whole foods primal slash paleo diet helped heal her body examples of genetic
1:06.1	tendencies and low penetrance gene variants the role of nutritional choices
1:12.4	including the use of ethanol or
1:14.8	alcohol and seed oils, the impact of lifestyle choices, as well as testing.
1:21.0	She provided some incredible broad-based recommendations as well as ways to work with
1:27.5	individuals that are trained in this very unique form of genetics, superimposing on nutrition.
1:35.0	Today I am delighted to welcome my friend Christina Hess,
1:42.0	and before we dive into your backstory we have a very special
1:46.8	announcement to make about Kito Symposium for which I will be an honored guest to be speaking at this event along with other friends of mine like the amazing Benazati
1:57.3	But Christina tell us a little bit about this event why it's so special and the fact that's in New York City, which I think most, if not all of us would love an excuse to come visit the city because it's been a while since I was last there.
2:10.0	Absolutely. The city in September is an absolutely glorious time to come to New York. It's not too hot. It's just beautiful weather. And of course, there's so much to do and now that things are back open in New York,
2:24.4	Broadway, there's so many other things to do in addition to coming to the conference.
2:30.4	So yeah, it's the very first low-carb conference on ketogenic lifestyle and fasting and yeah lots of experts including you so excited.
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