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.
00:08:15
Intro to Krista Scott-Dixon and her background with genetics
00:09:30
Intro to Helen Kollias and her experience with genetics
00:10:50
Intro to Alaina Hardie and how she became interested in genetics
00:12:45
Why they wanted to write a book on genetics
00:18:45
Why they wanted to write a book on genetics
00:22:50
What the heck is a SNP?
00:25:00
The problem with only looking at SNPs
00:26:30
What’s the difference between genotype and phenotype?
00:27:45
What’s the difference between genotype and phenotype?
00:29:15
How epigenetics differ from phenotype
00:30:15
What’s a polymorphism?
00:31:00
Heterozygous vs. homozygous
00:32:15
Polygenic vs. monogenic
00:34:30
Haplogroups
00:40:00
Why biology is statistical
00:40:30
Absolute risk vs. relative risk
00:45:45
Does it matter where you get genetic testing done?
00:51:15
The biggest problem with research and studies
00:57:15
Predictions on when/if genetic testing will become a centerpiece of our healthcare system
01:01:15
Food preferences and genetics
01:07:00
Do genetics impact how they coach clients?
01:13:00
Does genetic testing offer useful information we can’t get other places?
01:18:15
What are CRISPR and CRISPR-Cas9?
01:25:15
The ethics of editing genetics
01:32:15
The current reality of genetic testing
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