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The Dr. Hyman Show

How Our Life Experiences Influence Our Gene Expression And Overall Health

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Sensate, and Super Simple Protein.  Epigenetics is the study of how our environment and behavior can influence which of our genes are turned on or off. That’s right—we’re born with many different genes, but that does not mean they are all active. Genes can be activated or silenced from so many different things, like what you eat, how you move, and how you restore your system. Your thoughts, feelings, and social connections even regulate your genes too. You can turn on genes that create health or disease or weight gain or weight loss. In today’s episode, I talk with Drs. Jeff Bland, Bruce Lipton, and Todd LePine about how environmental and lifestyle factors are significant determining factors of your health. Dr. Jeff Bland is the founder of Big Bold Health, a company on a mission to transform the way people think about one of nature’s greatest innovations—the immune system. Through Big Bold Health, Jeff is advocating for the power of immuno-rejuvenation to enhance immunity at a global level, often through the rediscovery of ancient food crops and superfoods. Jeff’s career in health spans more than 40 years. A nutritional biochemist by training, he began in academia as a university professor. Jeff then spent three decades in the natural products industry, working alongside other pioneers. Dr. Bruce Lipton is a stem cell biologist and author of the bestselling books The Biology of Belief, Spontaneous Evolution, and The Honeymoon Effect. Dr. Lipton is the recipient of the prestigious Japanese Goi Peace Award and has been listed in “the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People” by Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine for the last 13 years. Dr. Todd LePine graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and is board certified in internal medicine, specializing in Integrative Functional Medicine. He is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner. Prior to joining The UltraWellness Center, he worked as a physician at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA, for 10 years. Dr. LePine’s focus at The UltraWellness Center is to help his patients achieve optimal health and vitality by restoring the natural balance to both the mind and the body. This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Sensate, and Super Simple Protein. Access more than 3,000 specialty lab tests with Rupa Health. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com today. Head on over to getsensate.com/Farmacy and use code FARMACY to get 10% off your Sensate device today. Right now, you can get 10% off Super Simple Grassfed Protein by heading to drhyman.com/protein and using code protein10. Full-length episodes (and corresponding links) of these interviews can be found here: Dr. Jeff Bland Dr. Bruce Lipton Dr. Todd LePine

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0:00.0

Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, our environment, the people we interact with,

0:06.0

our feeling of being supported, our feeling of being in a community. These all are signals

0:12.3

that go in and are picked up by our genes. Hey everyone it's Dr. Mark. Now I know a lot of you

0:19.5

out there are healthcare practitioners like me helping patients heal using real food and

0:24.2

functional medicine as the framework for getting the root cause of the issues. Now in my practice this

0:29.0

often means looking at lots of internal variables to find the most effective path to optimize health

0:34.4

and reverse disease. But up until now that meant we were usually ordering tests for one patient

0:39.6

for multiple labs. Now I'm sure many of you can relate to how time-consuming and complicated

0:43.6

lab wording can be for functional medicine practitioners like me and our patients. That's why I

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1:02.8

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1:06.8

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account today. And now let's get back to this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

1:17.1

Hi this is Lauren Fien, one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast. You might be

1:22.4

relieved to know that the health of our body is determined by more than our genes. The field of

1:27.0

epigenetics suggests that our behaviors and lifestyle can influence which of our genes are turned

1:31.6

on or off. That includes what you eat and how you move along with your thoughts, feelings,

1:36.3

and social connections. In today's episode we feature three conversations from the doctor's pharmacy

1:41.8

about all the things in our environment that impact how our genes are expressed. Dr. Hyman

1:46.6

speaks with Dr. Jeffrey Bland about how daily inputs from our environment inform the epigenome

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