You Are What Your Grandparents Ate with Judith Finlayson
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Two mice are genetically identical, but one ends up obese and yellow and the other ends up mousy brown and healthy as expected. What’s the difference? The mutated mouse’s mother was undernourished during pregnancy, and different genes switched on. Genetics load the gun, epigenetics pull the trigger.
Most of us have the potential for exceptional health, but some of us enter the world with serious health disadvantages that make it much more difficult to survive and thrive. Your parents’ nutrition and even your grandparents’ diet might be influencing your genetic expression right now, today. Scary stuff, but potentially empowering too.
Listen in on this week’s podcast to learn:
- How low birth weight (<5.5 lbs) is correlated with dozens of health challenges
- How simple nutrients like folate during pregnancy can massively impact the health of a person for their entire life
- What epidemiological studies tell us about the real risk of generational poverty and health
- Why the first 1,000 days of life are so important
- How your parents’ and grandparents' diets might be impacting you today
Links & Resources:
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Curry as a Spice
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About Our Guest:
Judith Finlayson has written books ranging from personal well-being and women’s history to food and nutrition. A former national newspaper columnist for the Globe and Mail, she is the author of over a dozen cookbooks. Judith lives in Toronto, Canada.
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| 0:00.0 | The thing I love about health and wellness is that it's very democratic. It's very |
| 0:07.6 | egalitarian and what I mean by that is pretty much anyone listening today can go |
| 0:11.8 | home and eat a good dinner, go out for a walk, |
| 0:14.7 | go for a job, go to the gym, take a yoga class, and you will feel better almost always, |
| 0:20.4 | 99 out of 100 times tomorrow you'll wake up feeling better and that's pretty exciting |
| 0:24.8 | there's not that many things that are as predictable as that you know good luck |
| 0:27.6 | trying to control your social life or good luck trying to control your financial |
| 0:31.6 | life with that kind of predictability. |
| 0:33.6 | It's just not there. So for me it's always been really empowering to study health, |
| 0:37.5 | to practice health, to teach health and wellness. And that's why I'm so into it, |
| 0:41.6 | because it's so egalitarian. But there are some |
| 0:44.4 | real limiting factors for some people that need to be taken into account and |
| 0:49.2 | this field of studies called epigenetics and the study of genetics is relatively new. The study of epigenetics |
| 0:56.2 | is extremely new. It's in its infancy. And the human genome of course has been fully mapped |
| 1:01.8 | and you can get access to a good portion of your |
| 1:05.2 | genetic information by paying for a service like 23 and me or something similar depending on where |
| 1:10.3 | you are in the world and you'll get a big swath of data very little of |
| 1:13.7 | which will make any sense to you and epigenetics is a lot a lot less |
| 1:19.0 | conclusive data but the data that's out there is very, very compelling. |
| 1:22.8 | And essentially what it's saying is you have this, you have your genome, right? |
| 1:27.6 | You have your individual genetic makeup that is you. |
| 1:31.2 | But then epigeneticsetics these environmental triggers they turn on and off certain |
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