Episode 119: Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week, I don’t just have one guest, I have three. It’s a panel discussion involving myself, Krista Scott-Dixon, Helen Kollias, and Alaina Hardie from Precision Nutrition and we’re sticking with one topic: genetic testing. We cover a lot of ground on this show.

We discuss the basics of DNA, genes, and the genome and what these are and why they’re important. We look at many of the of terms that come up once you get into the genetic testing world. So things SNPs, polymorphism, genotype, phenotype, epigenetics and others.

We cover risk, looking at absolute risk and relative risk and how this relates to the results of genetic testing.

We talk about what we currently do and don’t know. Truthfully, right now, what we do know is pretty limited. Despite the wild claims that are often made, at this stage most of these claims are hype or about what we expect could happen in the future, they aren’t a reality right now.

Here’s what we cover in this podcast episode:

8:15: Intro to Krista Scott-Dixon and her background with genetics

9:30: Intro to Helen Kollias and her experience with genetics

10:50: Intro to Alaina Hardie and how she became interested in genetics

12:45: Why they wanted to write a book on genetics

18:45: A brief overview of genetic testing

22:50: What the heck is a SNP?

25:00: The problem with only looking at SNPs

26:30: What’s the difference between genotype and phenotype?

27:45: What are epigenetics?

29:15: How epigenetics differ from phenotype

30:15: What’s a polymorphism?

31:00: Heterozygous vs. homozygous

32:15: Polygenic vs. monogenic

34:30: Haplogroups

40:00: Why biology is statistical

40:30: Absolute risk vs. relative risk

45:45: Does it matter where you get genetic testing done?

51:15: The biggest problem with research and studies

57:15: Predictions on when/if genetic testing will become a centerpiece of our healthcare system

1:01:15: Food preferences and genetics

1:07:00: Do genetics impact how they coach clients?

1:13:00: Does genetic testing offer useful information we can’t get other places?

1:18:15: What are CRISPR and CRISPR-Cas9?

1:25:15: The ethics of editing genetics

1:32:15: The current reality of genetic testing

Links mentioned during the show:

Genetics: The Universe Within

Principles by Ray Dalio

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