Dr. Szyf is a pioneer in the field of epigenetics, he holds a PhD from the celebrated Hebrew University, a postdoctoral  fellowship in Genetics at Harvard Medical School, a Professorship at McGill University and a Chair in Pharmacology at GlaxoSmithKline.

5:33 DNA as the operating system of our lives

 

6:14 Disease causes disruption in the DNA

 

6:41 DNA methylation gives us an insight into what’s going on in our DNA

 

7:07 Epi Age testing can tell us how many years we’ve been living in this world, and may give insight into how many years we may have left

 

8:02 Chronological age and epigenetic age can be good indicators for life span

 

11:17 Epi Age is a lifestyle product

 

12:59 Identifying the markers for aging

 

14:23 How Epi Age is different 

 

17:05 What are the most effective ways to slow down the clock?

 

17:29 Behaviours that can help slow down the clock

 

18:28 epiAging app

 

19:51 epiAge test results tell you what you’re DNA thinks of what you’re doing

 

22:21 The first step in slowing down the clock is to get to a state of balance

 

23:58 Using AI to derive some conclusions from an individual result against a general lifestyle model

 

24:30 The great revolution will come from mathematics and technology to capture the complexity of humans

 

26:24 The idea of sharing -- creating a “Waze” of health

 

27:08 Health data safety and privacy

 

28:06 Balancing privacy and sharing -- learning about diseases without consequences to the individual

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29:00 Sharing public methylation data can help save millions of lives

 

31:19 Firewalled personal data and medical data  -a solution to protect the individual

 

32:25 Goal: To get the best solutions to prevent anyone to hack the database

 

33:41 The collaboration between Epi-Age and users 

 

36:41 The best way to use the Epi-Age test

 

40:25 Transferring the responsibility of health from your doctor to yourself

 

40:45 Experience as a teacher

 

41:10 Trial, error, and scientific truth

 

41:36 Self-empowerment and the biohacking movement

 

43:22 Technology empowers people about medicine

 

44:37 epiAge app as a source of information for lifestyle trends

 

48:11 Environmental influence on genetics

 

49:38 The impact of your mental environment on your health