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Dr. Melissa Ilardo

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Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

And so that's generally why we try to quantify it in genetics. But yeah, you know, when we're talking about, it depends on kind of what scale, because I'm 100% European. So in that way, I'm not admixed, if we're talking on the scale of continents. So it becomes kind of a blurry concept of admixture. depending on what level we're looking at.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

And so that's generally why we try to quantify it in genetics. But yeah, you know, when we're talking about, it depends on kind of what scale, because I'm 100% European. So in that way, I'm not admixed, if we're talking on the scale of continents. So it becomes kind of a blurry concept of admixture. depending on what level we're looking at.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

And so that's generally why we try to quantify it in genetics. But yeah, you know, when we're talking about, it depends on kind of what scale, because I'm 100% European. So in that way, I'm not admixed, if we're talking on the scale of continents. So it becomes kind of a blurry concept of admixture. depending on what level we're looking at.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

But yeah, you know, when we're talking about, it depends on kind of what scale, because I'm 100% European.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

So in that way, I'm not admixed, if we're talking on the scale of continents.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

So it becomes kind of a blurry concept of admixture.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

depending on what level we're looking at.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

But as to your question of whether we are all one species, I would say I've actually, this is not the first time I've been asked this, especially given these, we call them superhuman populations, these people who have these extraordinary abilities, extraordinary physiology that makes them really good at what they do.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

But as to your question of whether we are all one species, I would say I've actually, this is not the first time I've been asked this, especially given these, we call them superhuman populations, these people who have these extraordinary abilities, extraordinary physiology that makes them really good at what they do.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

But as to your question of whether we are all one species, I would say I've actually, this is not the first time I've been asked this, especially given these, we call them superhuman populations, these people who have these extraordinary abilities, extraordinary physiology that makes them really good at what they do.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

But as to your question of whether we are all one species, I would say I've actually, this is not the first time I've been asked this, especially given these, we call them superhuman populations, these people who have these extraordinary abilities, extraordinary physiology that makes them really good at what they do.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

I think the thing to keep in mind is that some of that variation can come from just a single base pair difference. I mean, a lot of times it's multiple genetic changes that create the differences between individuals. But when you think about eye color, that's just one genetic variant in some cases, like the case of blue eyes. So you could be exactly the same as someone else

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

I think the thing to keep in mind is that some of that variation can come from just a single base pair difference. I mean, a lot of times it's multiple genetic changes that create the differences between individuals. But when you think about eye color, that's just one genetic variant in some cases, like the case of blue eyes. So you could be exactly the same as someone else

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

I think the thing to keep in mind is that some of that variation can come from just a single base pair difference. I mean, a lot of times it's multiple genetic changes that create the differences between individuals. But when you think about eye color, that's just one genetic variant in some cases, like the case of blue eyes. So you could be exactly the same as someone else

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

I think the thing to keep in mind is that some of that variation can come from just a single base pair difference.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

I mean, a lot of times it's multiple genetic changes that create the differences between individuals.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

But when you think about eye color, that's just one genetic variant in some cases, like the case of blue eyes.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

So you could be exactly the same as someone else

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

except for this one change out of 3.5 billion.

Huberman Lab
Behaviors That Alter Your Genes to Improve Your Health & Performance | Dr. Melissa Ilardo

except for this one change out of 3.5 billion. You know, so does that, like, at what point do we need enough genetic diversity to call a group of humans a different species? And I don't think that's something that we see anywhere on the planet that I know of.