Ep. 237: Sharon Moalem Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Sharon Moalem, a physician and author. Moalem's previous book, "Survival Of The Sickest", was a New York Times bestseller.

The topic is his book Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives, and Our Lives Change Our Genes.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Rafael Nadal as an example of digging deep in genetics
How our bodies are constantly in a state of deconstruction and reconstruction
How DNA is under constant modification
Genetic personalized medicine
"Jeff the chef" and an example of specific dietary needs
Dysmorphology and analyzing the hands, feet, and face of an individual
Gregor Mendel and his pea experiments in genetics
How your behavior can dictate your genetic destiny
The future of personalized genetic medicine
Critics and misunderstandings of genetics
Vitamins on an individual basis

Jump in!

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:32.5	Today in the show I have Sharon Molem,
0:36.0	physician, scientist.
0:39.8	Previously, New York Times bestseller,
0:47.1	book, Survival of the Sickest, 19 patents for biotech and health. Fascinating background.
0:54.3	His newest book is called Inheritance. This is the book for all of us. Forget the book. This is the understanding this man has for all of us. Forget the book.
1:00.4	This is the understanding this man has for all of us that want to know about our genes.
1:01.9	And guess what?
1:05.0	It's not something you're just born with.
1:07.0	It constantly changes. What we are doing every day is affecting, changing us genetically every day. Our actions
1:15.4	in this lifetime can affect our kids the next lifetime. One generation we can change it
1:23.0	all. Fascinating subject. I hope you enjoy.
1:35.1	So you are in New York City today?
1:35.7	Where are you at?
1:38.0	Yeah, I'm in New York City for the week.
1:40.8	But it's never far enough.
1:44.4	Patients always end up finding you somehow needing something.
1:49.1	Yeah, my father's a doctor, so I get the, I know the routine growing up.
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