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Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. So what if you could decide how you're going to age and even push back the clock on your final days?

Well, my guest today says that you can. In fact, he says that thanks to advancements in genetic insights, chronic disease can be optional.

He's Kashif Khan, CEO and founder of the DNA Company, the world's leading functional genomics researcher.

The DNA Company aims to prevent chronic illness by helping patients understand the impact of their environment, nutrition and lifestyle choices on their genetic predispositions.

And in just a moment, we're going to learn all about his philosophy. After a quick break, Kashif and I will dive into the various areas of your life that are impacted by genetics and explain why your DNA could be the key to unlocking the truth behind a host of other issues.

That affects sleep, nutrition, immunity and more. So don't go away. This episode will inspire you to develop simple habits to hack your DNA and transform your life. We'll be right back.

So I want to start off with the basics. I think everybody knows, but let's get real basic.

What the heck are genes and what makes understanding your own unique set of genes important?

Yeah. Sure. And that's important place to start because we have this sort of this mystique about what our DNA is. It's literally an instruction.

So we have 57 trillion cells in our body. Each one of them has an instruction manual inside it telling those cells what to do.

So the ability to understand your DNA is like reading that instruction manual, understanding now how am I operating inside? It's your literal operations manual.

Now, I've written about this in a number of my books, but I think it's important for people to realize that even though we seem to be a rather advanced animal, at least in our opinion,

that one would have thought because we're such an advanced animal that we might have by far the most genes of any other animal. What say you?

Well, our DNA, our current DNA is 250,000 years old, right? So we are the same as a people from that long ago.

Evolution takes time if you believe in that. And what we've understood now is that the pace of what's happened in the world, industrialization, commercialization, globalization versus the pace at which we've evolved.

This is why we think there's so much illness because we're not designed for what we're doing and we can dive into that. What are DNA is telling us?

But there's actually, correct me if I'm wrong, sand flees have more genes than you and I.

Sure, yeah, and we're this degree away from being pigs. We're closer to bananas than we are to certain animals.

Genes are very interesting things. A minor nuance in an instruction completely changes the outcome.

Okay, so that and that's a good stepping off point. So what do what do genes have to do with chronic disease and aging? I mean, aren't are we built into chronically age and get disease or what do you think?

This is where we think that the genetic industry has gone wrong because the belief is that genetics is only for genetic conditions, right?

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