Mel Robbins

She's led research teams at Oxford and the University of Southern California.

She's published more than 25 peer-reviewed scientific papers in the most renowned medical journals in the world, including Cell and BMC Medicine.

Please help me welcome Dr. Lucia Aronica to the Mel Robbins Podcast.

Thank you.

I really have a crush on your brain, so now I'm blushing.

Here's where I want to start.

How could my life be different if I take everything that you're about to teach me today and I take it to heart, I apply it to my life, what might change?

Tomorrow, you'll wake up different.

Dr. Erotica, you came to play.

Holy cow.

You will see the fork as the pencil to rewrite your future.

You will be able to use food to change 75% of what determines your health.

I can't wait to get into all of this research around food and how it unlocks potential in your genes and can change your health forever.

So you are an epigenetics scientist.

What is epigenetics and why should we be as excited about it as you are about what you're about to teach us?

you hooked me right in the opening couple words.

So I want to make sure I really understand this because a lot of us blame our genes for a lot of things, right?

Oh, well, you know, my weight, aging, energy, stress, my mom had diabetes.

As if everything is set in stone, there's nothing you can do.

So maybe why don't we start with, well, what actually are genes?