Dr. Rhonda Patrick

This is a major transcription factor.

Again, it's regulating multiple genes involved in everything I just said.

Antioxidant production, anti-inflammatory production, stem cell production, all these things.

the response to all kinds of different stressors that happens throughout our life as we age.

And you're basically able to handle that stress better.

So what you do with gene therapy is just give you a boost.

You get a boost more of that gene that's going to make everything else work better, kind of like a genetic tune-up.

So there's a little bit of difference between gene therapy and gene editing.

And I think they can both work.

And it really depends.

It'll be more of an individual sort of personalized type approach because everyone, we have different genetic makeups and we have different,

you know, benefits and there's things that we aren't as good at depending on our genetic makeup, right?

And so it's really kind of cool.

All this tuning up you can get.

Well, I mean, that's the ethical question because yes, you could potentially do that with the gene editing technology and CRISPR and some of the, you know, some of the other types of technology that come out and a little bit more precise that are part of CRISPR.

I think that, you know, right now, I mean, think about IVF, right?

You go and people are getting screening.

You're screening for genetic diseases.

If the embryo has a disease, you know, you don't do it.

So at a certain point, it's like, where do you draw the line?