Show 990: Diet and Lifestyle as Gene Therapy (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We air this show in memory of Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, who died last month. He was a frequent guest on The People’s Pharmacy and we are sorry to learn of his unexpected death.
Genetic Destiny:
We are all born with certain genes that help determine our height and the color of our eyes as well as our likelihood of developing certain diseases. The genes don’t change, but their activity can change significantly in response to living conditions. The study of how gene activity can be modified is called epigenetics.
Epigenetics
The field of epigenetics has been developing rapidly over the past few decades, and we now have a much better understanding of how exercise, diet and other lifestyle factors influence gene expression. And our genes are not the only ones that matter: billions of bacteria that live in and on us have genes, the microbiome, that are profoundly affected by what we eat and what we do.
While this research is new and very specific, the guidelines for nutritional epigenetics would be familiar to our grandmothers and great-grandmothers: nourish our gut bacteria with vegetables and fruit, avoid sugar and artificial sweeteners, practice meditation and get plenty of exercise. How do these actions affect our risk of cancer?
This Week’s Guest:
Mitchell L. Gaynor, MD, was the founder and president of Gaynor Wellness. Dr. Gaynor was clinical assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. His book is The Gene Therapy Plan: Taking Control of Your Genetic Destiny with Diet and Lifestyle. His websites are GaynorWellness.com and GeneChanger.com
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| 0:40.1 | Do your genes determine what diseases you'll suffer, or can you alter your genetic destiny? |
| 0:46.3 | What's the role for diet and lifestyle? |
| 0:49.0 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:59.5 | Music pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. The late Dr. Mitchell Garner was an integrative oncologist. |
| 1:03.4 | He said it's possible to take control of our genetic destiny with diet and lifestyle. |
| 1:09.0 | What foods should we eat and what supplements can be helpful in reducing the risk of cancer, diabetes, or heart disease? |
| 1:15.6 | The field of epigenetics has proven that it's possible to affect gene expression not only through diet and exercise, but even through activities like meditation. |
| 1:25.6 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Dr. Mitchell Gaynor and his gene therapy plan. |
| 1:34.4 | First, this news. |
| 1:39.5 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, |
| 1:42.3 | the American Cancer Society has just changed its guidelines on mammograms. |
| 1:48.4 | Women without a family history or genetic predisposition to develop breast cancer |
| 1:52.8 | are now being told to start getting annual mammograms at age 45, |
| 1:57.9 | instead of the previously recommended age 40. |
| 2:00.6 | The ACS also suggests that such women switch to getting age 45, instead of the previously recommended age 40. |
| 2:06.9 | The ACS also suggests that such women switch to getting mammograms every other year once they reach the age of 55. |
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