The Groundbreaking Science Behind Reprogramming Your Genetics | Dr. Jeffrey Bland
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Jeffrey Bland, an accomplished and highly respected thought leader who has spent more than four decades studying the improvement of human health.
Due to his groundbreaking contributions the field, Jeff is known worldwide as “the founder of the Functional Medicine movement”, which represents his vision for a care model that is grounded in systems biology and informed by research.
His pioneering work has created the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute (PLMI), as well as the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), both of which are recognized as global leaders in Functional Medicine education.
Jeff’s latest project, Big Bold Health, is on a mission to transform the way people think about one of nature’s greatest innovations — the immune system.
Jeff’s deep knowledge across disciplines and bold ambitions for how we can enhance human health made for a fascinating conversation. We discuss some of his exciting new discoveries in epigenetics - reprogramming them and how they relate to everything from aging and disease to productivity, brain function, immunity, and mental wellbeing.
To learn more about Big Bold Health: https://bigboldhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | with this whole concept of making what used to be called soft science really become hard science. |
| 0:06.3 | That these constructs of how we think about ourselves, how we vision ourselves, how we communicate |
| 0:11.8 | internally to ourselves about our identity in the planet are influencing in real time 24-7, |
| 0:18.4 | how our genes are marked and how they will create our function going forward. That is a huge revolution. |
| 0:30.5 | Hey, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:38.0 | Dr. Michael Jervé, and by trade and training a high-performance psychologist, |
| 0:42.9 | I'm excited to learn from a legend, Dr. Jeffrey Bland. And after spending the last four decades, |
| 0:50.4 | deeply studying the improvements of human health, Jeff has earned his nickname as the founder of |
| 0:56.9 | functional medicine. To be a founder of anything, especially medicine, is legit. So his pioneer |
| 1:03.4 | work has created the personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute as well as the Institute for Functional |
| 1:09.4 | Medicine, both recognizes global leaders in functional medicine education. Jeff's latest project, |
| 1:15.9 | Big Bold Health is on a mission to transform the way people think about one of nature's greatest |
| 1:21.5 | innovations, the immune system. Jeff, I'm really excited to sit with you. How are you? |
| 1:28.1 | Well, I can't tell you how pleased and excited I am to have this opportunity to talk with you. |
| 1:32.6 | What you're doing is right where the tip of the spear resides in terms of people making |
| 1:37.8 | positive changes that really impact their performance, their health, their wellness and the ability to |
| 1:42.2 | give to others. So I'm really very appreciative of the opportunity to have this discussion with you. |
| 1:47.5 | That's surprising. And I'll tell you why that surprised me is because one, I like honestly, |
| 1:53.2 | and I feel like I'm bending knee a bit here because of what you contributed to the field. And then |
| 1:59.1 | if I took me out of that equation and I just listened to the way that you reframed it, |
| 2:04.3 | like are you fundamentally optimistic and grateful? Are those two are those two of the leading |
| 2:11.0 | kind of character traits that that you work from? I'm unbelievably grateful. |
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