Dr. Mark Hyman

So what determines your outcome of your health is not your genes, but what happens to your genes throughout your life.

We call this the exposome, not the genome.

The exposome is what your genes are exposed to.

What you eat, your activity, movement, exercise, sleep, how you navigate stress, your microbiome, environmental toxins.

Pretty much anything you can think of that you're exposed to is washing over your DNA and turning on or off genes that regulate chronic disease or create health.

So that's really important to understand for people because it means you have agency and that you can change your destiny.

My grandfather is a great example.

He was deaf.

He couldn't hear.

And so all he could do was manual labor.

So he worked at the New York Times.

He would throw the big sacks of newspapers onto the truck.

And his brothers and sisters, and he had about eight of them, all had early heart disease in their 50s and had bypasses and heart attacks.

And he didn't start getting it until he was in his 70s and 80s.

Because he was very physically fit, and he took a walk every night, and he was thin.

So even though you might have a predisposition, you can modify your risk by understanding what the risks are and what to do about it.

Yeah, we've created the worst diet on the planet and exported to every country on Earth.

In China, and I lived in China, I was first visited in 1984, the rate of type 2 diabetes was 1 in 150.

There was no McDonald's, there was no fast food, there was no KFC, there was nothing.

You know, I went back years later, 20 years later, it's just...