Guruduth Banavar

Good for a small population, but it's generally speaking, a lot of pathways are out of whack.

So what we see is the out of whack pathways comes from what you've been eating.

Got it.

Right?

Because whatever you eat has the substrates for basically feeding the bacteria, right?

Your bacteria are eating what you eat and then producing the outputs, which are then absorbed by your intestinal lining.

Yep.

So your question is, you know, how much of it is genetic?

How much of it is toxins?

I would say it's a majority of it is coming from your environment, right?

Your environment to me means it is what you eat, what you breathe.

how you manage your stress, your sleep and your activity.

All of that is the majority of what we see in our pathways because that's what determines what gets expressed and therefore what pathways are doing well and what not doing well.

So the thing about chronic disease is that you go to blue zones, right?

Their environments are so good that they generally tend to have very few chronic diseases.

They tend to live very long.

But you go to the developed world,

you tend to have a huge prevalence of chronic diseases, metabolic disease, neurological disease, cardiovascular disease, all these diseases, and they also tend to have out-of-vac pathways.

So overall, my answer to your question is it's mostly your environment, not so much your genetics.

That's exciting, right, for a lot of people.