Joe Cohen - Genetic Testing To Optimize Health

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Host Brad Kearns talks to Joe Cohen, the founder of SelfDecode, a genetic testing service that gives customers personalized health recommendations based on their genes. Great advancements have been made with genetic testing in recent years, and running your genetic profile once allows you to apply future research advancements to your unchanging genetic profile and learn further insights.

Joe describes how genetic testing can help you make the best decisions for exercise, eating, mood stability, and sleeping habits. It's important to acknowledge that self optimization should always be centered on testing, evaluating, and retesting, but knowing what direction to head with a genetic road map can be extremely valuable. For example, athletes can learn valuable insights about the antioxidant needs, methylation abilities, and muscle fiber composition to help design a training plan that they will respond to successfully. For example, Brad mentions his DNAFit report that revealed a ratio of 54% strength/power to 46% endurance in his genotype, a revelatory insight that would have helped revise his triathlon training away from a pure endurance approach that most triathletes follow to something more suited to his genetics.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.
0:09.9	Enjoy the show.
0:10.9	Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com.
0:22.5	Okay, Joe Cohen, glad to have you on, the founder of Self-Decode.
0:26.9	I want to hear what's up in the cutting-edge world of genetic testing and then how we can
0:32.9	apply those insights to everyday life.
0:35.9	And you had some really interesting insights that you share with me before the show about
0:40.8	how your mood can be aligned with your genes and just learning more about your particulars
0:48.8	to make life work for you.
0:50.4	So thanks for sharing with us.
0:53.3	Yeah.
0:53.6	So thank you for having me. So just to go over the basics,
0:58.1	I think people need to start to be aware that essentially whatever topic you're talking about,
1:06.3	there's influence in your genes, right? You could talk about something like longevity and, you know,
1:13.7	there's these people who live, you know, old and they don't necessarily do all the right
1:18.5	things, right? And there's, you have new stories about a person who's like a hundred,
1:23.9	13 years old and got over COVID. Now, there's some of that has to, it always has to do with two things, right?
1:31.2	Your lifestyle, your diet, you know, things that you're doing to be healthier, but also
1:36.7	your genetics.
1:37.8	And there's the intersection of those two things as well, right?
1:41.2	Because we also know that, you know, for any given topic, whether it's
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