Are Your Genes Making You Fat and Sick?

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Levels. You may
be surprised to learn that your lifestyle and food choices are much
better indicators of your health and weight than your genes. While
it is true that some genes can predispose you to obesity, type 2
diabetes, or heart disease, predisposition is not predestination.
In fact, 90 percent of our current health is controlled by the
environment in which we bathe our genes—the food we eat, our
exercise regimen, our resilience in the face of stress, and our
exposure to environmental toxins.  In today’s episode of my
series I’m calling Health Bites, I talk about how your diet and
lifestyle influence your genes and my top strategies for weight
loss and optimal health. This episode is brought to you by Rupa
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more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber
version): So much of what we think might be genetic is actually
environmental (2:34 / 1:00)   What determines your
phenotype? (5:35 / 3:52)  Research looking at genes and
obesity (6:58 /  4:58)  Learnings from the Pima Indian
population (9:34 / 7:48)  Dealing with food and sugar
addiction (13:16 / 10:53)  There’s no one-size-fits-all diet
(15:39 / 13:40)  Seven ways to simplify weight loss (18:40 /
16:49)  Mentioned in this episode The Blood Sugar
Solution  10-Day Detox Diet  Function Health Free Sleep
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