Dr. Melissa Ilardo

I mean, you know, there's like companies where you can test yourself to find out what kind of athlete you should be.

I mean, you know, there's like companies where you can test yourself to find out what kind of athlete you should be. And I think that kind of gets into something called genetic determinism, which is this idea that your genes determine everything about you. which we know isn't true. We know that it's a combination of genetic factors, environmental factors, all of these different things.

And I think that kind of gets into something called genetic determinism, which is this idea that your genes determine everything about you.

which we know isn't true.

We know that it's a combination of genetic factors, environmental factors, all of these different things.

But I think it's interesting how much the idea that we're genetically predisposed to something or we're genetically better at something can actually influence how we are at that thing. So we talked a little bit before about

But I think it's interesting how much the idea that we're genetically predisposed to something or we're genetically better at something can actually influence how we are at that thing. So we talked a little bit before about

But I think it's interesting how much the idea that we're genetically predisposed to something or we're genetically better at something can actually influence how we are at that thing.

But I think it's interesting how much the idea that we're genetically predisposed to something or we're genetically better at something can actually influence how we are at that thing. So we talked a little bit before about

So we talked a little bit before about

You know, there was a study where they told people, they said, we're going to take your DNA, we're going to genotype you, we're going to find out, you know, whether if you train, you're going to get faster or whether it's not going to affect you at all. And so they did that and they put people into these groups and then they tested them after a few months.

You know, there was a study where they told people, they said, we're going to take your DNA, we're going to genotype you, we're going to find out, you know, whether if you train, you're going to get faster or whether it's not going to affect you at all. And so they did that and they put people into these groups and then they tested them after a few months.

You know, there was a study where they told people, they said, we're going to take your DNA, we're going to genotype you, we're going to find out, you know, whether if you train, you're going to get faster or whether it's not going to affect you at all.

You know, there was a study where they told people, they said, we're going to take your DNA, we're going to genotype you, we're going to find out, you know, whether if you train, you're going to get faster or whether it's not going to affect you at all. And so they did that and they put people into these groups and then they tested them after a few months.

And so they did that and they put people into these groups and then they tested them after a few months.

And the people who they told were going to do better did better. And this was like something they can measure at the biological level. They could measure DNA. specific molecules that had changed in that population of people compared to the other group of people. Now, the trick was that there was no difference genetically between these groups. It was just what they were told.

And the people who they told were going to do better did better.

And the people who they told were going to do better did better. And this was like something they can measure at the biological level. They could measure DNA. specific molecules that had changed in that population of people compared to the other group of people. Now, the trick was that there was no difference genetically between these groups. It was just what they were told.

And the people who they told were going to do better did better. And this was like something they can measure at the biological level. They could measure DNA. specific molecules that had changed in that population of people compared to the other group of people. Now, the trick was that there was no difference genetically between these groups. It was just what they were told.

And this was like something they can measure at the biological level.