Science-Backed Methods That Extend Your Life Far More Than Genetics Ever Will

You are now listening to the model health show with Sean Stephenson. For more, visit the modelhealthshow.com. Welcome to the model health show. This is fitness and nutrition expert Sean Stephenson, and I'm so grateful for you tuning in with me today. We've got big news. Scientists have discovered there are specific genes that are controlling our levels of body fat and even obesity. Now this wasn't just a couple of genes. There are over 400 genes that are affirmed as of this recording, and they continue to find more and more. This genetic complex is very complex, and that's part of the problem. Scientists thought that we can find these specific genes and target these genes through different therapies and medications to essentially manipulate the genes into not expressing that body fat that we don't want or expressing obesity. One of those genes that was revealed was the FTO gene, also known as a fat mass and obesity associated gene. And this gene was initially confirmed to be an obesity susceptible gene that predispose individuals to having obesity. Right. This was just huge news, front page, headlines, all the things, but it turned out to not be accurate because there are tremendous amount of people who have this gene who are not expressing obesity, not in the slightest. And so what's going on here? Well, unfortunately, the dogma that our genes are controlling our health was proven to be untrue. One of the biggest analysis ever conducted was published in the peer reviewed journal PLOS ONE, and it was titled genetic factors are not the major causes of chronic diseases. And so this is now well established, and the kind of conversation around genes causing disease, finding these specific genes that are related to the expression of cancer, obesity, heart disease, Alzheimer's, whatever the case might be, keeps leading to dead ends. And, unfortunately, the public still doesn't know about this. Yes. Our genes do have an impact on our expression of health. Absolutely. Genes, if we can make an analogy, they're really like the blueprint for making you. Alright. So genes are determining the proteins that are getting printed out to make the copies of you. Again, this is just an analogy. So we're talking about the building blocks that make you up, the signaling molecules, hormones, neurotransmitters, all the stuff that's guiding how you're getting made, how you're feeling, your expression of energy or lack thereof. The list goes on and on. Our genes are absolutely an important part of this process, but there's something above the genes that is determining how our genes are being expressed. We can have a gene, say this FTO gene, and have hundreds or even thousands of different proteins, alterations that are getting printed out via this one gene. And it's being influenced by these epigenetic inputs largely from our environment, but there's something even deeper than that. And that's just one of the things that we're gonna be covering today …