How Much of Your Disease and Health is Genetic?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this podcast, we're going to talk about genetics. How much of your disease is genetic, and how much of your health is genetic?
Are diseases genetic? People often think they simply have "bad genes." But, that's not true. Only 5-10% of disease is caused by a genetic defect that has been passed on by your parents.
Most gene mutations are not inherited; they're somatic mutations. Somatic mutations mean it's not inherited, but caused by your environment.
Epigenetics means above genetics. For example, think of DNA as a DVD and epigenetic as the DVD player. You can select what you want to activate and control. 90-95% of your health, and whether you get a disease is epigenetics.
Exposome is the accumulation of all the exposures of an individual in a lifetime and how those exposures relate to health. We're talking about the exposure to your environment, which started when you were still in the womb. Everything adds up and can trigger certain genes, which leads to certain diseases.
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So the question is how much of your disease is genetic and how much of your health is genetic? |
| 0:51.0 | Sometimes people might tell you, you know, it's all in the genes, I was just |
| 0:55.1 | born with bad genes and there's nothing you can do, you need to pick your parents more wisely |
| 0:59.5 | next time. That is absolutely not true. |
| 1:03.0 | Only 5 to 10% of disease |
| 1:08.0 | is caused by some genetic defect that is passed on from your parents. |
| 1:12.0 | It doesn't mean that you're going to get that |
| 1:14.0 | disease. There's a really good book, but I'm reading Cancer as a metabolic disease by Thomas |
| 1:21.3 | Cefret. This guy is like the expert in cancer. |
| 1:25.0 | And what he says, and I'm just paraphrasing, when you see tumors in cancer, |
| 1:28.5 | you do see a lot of genetic mutations. |
| 1:31.8 | But those mutations, those alterations and genes are downstream. |
| 1:36.2 | In other words, there's symptoms, they're not causes of the cancer, |
| 1:40.4 | they're symptoms of the damage in the mitochondria, the machinery where you're burning fuel. |
| 1:46.0 | That's the first thing that gets damaged. |
| 1:49.0 | And then the mitochondria adapts to a different metabolism called fermentation and because the |
| 1:57.5 | mitochondria has its own DNA and they're not protected like the DNA in the nucleus okay because they're outside |
| 2:05.5 | the nucleus they're very susceptible to mutations and alterations in the DNA. |
| 2:13.6 | And that's probably one of the reasons why you see so many gene mutations |
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