EP 302 — Dr. Kenneth Pelletier: Change Your Genes, Change Your Life

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Paul Chek

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🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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So many of you are obsessed with the makeup of your genes in the mistaken belief that they affect nearly everything in your lives, and that you could be stuck with poor health even if you make all the right choices.Dr. Kenneth Pelletier would beg to disagree with that misinformed assumption based on his legendary career in integrative medicine. Ken shares his vast experience as a pioneer in the field of epigenetics this time on Spirit Gym.Sign up for Ken’s newsletter on his website and receiv...

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0:00.0	He wanted to see if disease was present in one twin,
0:02.9	did it show up in the other twin.
0:05.1	And if you're a genetic determinist,
0:07.8	that genetics determine everything about us,
0:10.5	he say, yes, of course.
0:11.8	Turns out it was completely wrong. He found things like if one twin had Parkinson's, the likelihood of the other twin manifesting Parkinson's was 5%.
0:23.2	If you looked at heart disease, in one twin
0:26.8	it had a 50% likelihood of occurring in the other twin.
0:29.9	So it's flip a coin, it was a chance.
0:32.1	And most cancers were 35 to 40 percent.
0:35.6	If you found one in one twin,
0:36.8	you had a 35 to 40 percent chance in the other twin.
0:39.2	So it completely eliminated the idea of genetic determination because these were twins who had gone
0:45.0	off, we're reared in different environments, different stressors, different diets,
0:50.0	different pharmacology in their bodies, and so they were modifying their identical genetic
0:54.9	code in ways that expressed it differently.
0:58.6	This is spirit Jim. In today's episode our host Paul Chek is talking with Kenneth Pelletier and the topic of the
1:06.2	conversation is change your genes change your life. This podcast would not be possible
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