Shownotes:

* Michael is giving away free Kindle copies of the Efficiency Playbook – 0:15

* Tips on how to extend your life – 01:04

* How 23 and Me program can take a look at the human genome to prevent form creating an issue in the future – 06:19

 

Good morning everyone! Michael the Maven here. We have a very important weekend coming up where I will be giving away free Kindle copies of the Efficiency Playbook if you sign up at theeffeciencyplaybook.com. We will send you the link as soon as it is available. There is also a way to share that link that can track how many of your friends signed up and you can get the audio book, we can get you as a VIP in my new social network coming up later this year, a free autograph copy of the book. It’s free for everybody. You just sign up for the newsletter, we are going to give you the kindle copy once it is available. It is going to be available in a couple of days. I just to remind you that it is supposed to happen this weekend barring a technical glitch.

Today I wanted to talk about something that is crazy important if you haven’t heard about it already. It can really benefit you in terms of extending your life even. In the history of the world, we don’t know how long humans have been on the earth if you’re religious, many of you will think it’s 6 or 7 thousand years, if you’re not religious, it could tens of thousand of years. It’s sufficeth to say humans have been around for a while.

In every human that has ever been born has been given a deck of cards, a genetic deck of cards with the problem of not being able to see what those cards are. We have an idea based on how tall we are, our eye color, things of that nature. Just general appearances, these are called phenotypes. We’ve never been really able to take a peek at that deck of cards until recently. It’s estimated that there are about a hundred and ten billion of people that ever lived on the planet. So if you take all of the people that are here now of the spirits of many thousand of years. Only recently, have we been given the ability to see what these decks of cards are. Why is this important? I want to get into Science of it but genes are physical molecules (DNA) are passed on from the parents to the children. Sometimes DNA makes mistakes when it is replicated. We start off as sperm and egg, a single fertilized egg, a single cell, and that cell replicates. It divides over and over and over. It’s a cell division and that what makes a human. That’s how humans are created.

If you have a gene that’s passed on from one of your parents that have a physical change. One of the sequences, there is a way to see that now. This is really important! Coming back to the discovery of DNA in 1953, Watson and Crick, and some other scientists used some X-ray. There’s a lot of ways to figure out that it’s a double helix. That is the birth of molecular biology which is how these physical molecules relate to our actual development. It’s a whole field of Science.

Now let’s skip to 1997 where a movie called Gattaca with Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, came out. I would strongly recommend that you watch it if you haven’t seen it. It’s one of my favorite movies. This film depicts the balance in the struggle between nature, the genetics that we’re given versus nurture, our surroundings, our decisions. The aspects of life that are playing on us. This is also a great film about the human realm. I think Gattaca is predictive of the future. It is really interesting because, in the movie, people are no longer judge in appearances,