Gene Testing Does More Harm Than Good, What You Need To Know

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

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Tommy Woods brings some practical and pragmatic analysis to something otherwise confusing. The utility of gene testing (or lack there of). He helps to pick apart and debunk the case for gene testing in an evidenced-based way. We talk about risk, size, effect size, MTHFR, weight, and cardiovascular genetic testing.

The overall message is that gene testing does more harm than good. It causes worry and fear. And this has a negative impact because when you're told you have a bad gene or a bad polymorphism of a gene, this has a negative psychological ramification while offering no clinical or treatment benefit.

I’ve come across many patients who have wasted a lot of time, energy, and money, chasing down genetic testing to try and feel better and in my experience, basing treatment on genetics just never ends up being successful. This discussion is not about pointing fingers at practitioners or patients, everyone is doing their best with what they have, but more to educate people that there is not strong enough evidence to support the utility of these tests. https://drruscio.com/?p=56101

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:22.9	That's DRR-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.
0:26.9	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.
0:39.8	Hi everyone. Today's podcast was with Dr. Tommy Woods, who's back for a second appearance.
0:46.2	And what I love about Tommy and his discussion today, which is essentially debunking
0:53.5	there being any utility to gene testing,
0:58.0	is Tommy is a guy who actually goes in and fact-checked the research.
1:04.9	And in this case, not only he fact-checked, he also performed independent analysis on the
1:10.4	data sets of some of the effects that a given gene
1:15.8	would have on weight, cardiovascular risk, homocysteine as the case for MTHFR.
1:23.5	So a really thoughtful, open but thoughtful gentleman who really does his homework.
1:31.0	And what today's episode really boils down to in terms of the conclusion is that gene testing does more harm than good.
1:41.3	It causes worry and fear. And this has a negative impact because when you're told
1:46.9	you have a bad gene or a bad polymorphism of a gene, this has a negative psychological
1:53.4	ramification while offering no clinical or treatment benefit. And we'll elaborate on the rationale
2:00.6	behind that in today's episode.
2:02.6	But a fantastic job by Dr. Tommy Woods bringing some practical and pragmatic analysis to something otherwise confusing and I think shrouded in, I want to say, kind of misconceptions and has been
2:24.3	propagated by the fact that so many people are doing this without doing really, in my opinion,
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