#264 How understanding your genetics could improve your health with Dr Stuart J. Grice MRes DPhil
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Today we're diving into the fascinating world of genomics and personalised nutrition. We're joined by Dr. Stuart J. Grice, a distinguished biologist and former academic at the University of Oxford, whose groundbreaking research has explored the biological mechanisms behind neuromuscular disease, neurodegeneration, and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Together, we'll explore the big question: How can understanding your genetics shape your long-term health? We'll discuss the usefulness of genetic testing when it comes to nutrition and health, and how it fits alongside other testing technologies like blood tests, gut microbiome analysis, and continuous glucose monitoring. Dr. Grice will introduce the concept of having a personalised profile that helps predict your future health trajectory based on current data.
We discuss the differences between genes that are deterministic, probabilistic and informative and whether we can predict what might happen to us in the future, even if we’re healthy now? We’ll also cover the importance of balancing different aspects of our biology to live a healthy, fulfilling life.
After completing his doctorate at Oxford, Stuart co-founded FitnessGenes where he currently holds the position of Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). The company is 11 years old and has received numerous awards for its innovative work in preventative healthcare. Moreover, FitnessGenes is the first company in the world to secure a patent that identifies how better health predictions can be made by combining genetic and lifestyle data.
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:05.0 | In reality, Bolgia doesn't really care about us later in life. |
| 0:09.0 | It just wants us to, you know, go big, pro-big, pro- pro create and then go home metaphorically speaking |
| 0:18.7 | welcome to the doctor's kitchen podcast, the show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to |
| 0:27.8 | improve your health today. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:56.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. Today we're diving into the fascinating world of genomics and personalized nutrition. |
| 1:01.0 | We're joined by Dr. Stewart Grice, a distinguished biologist and former academic |
| 1:06.8 | at the University of Oxford, whose groundbreaking research has explored the biological mechanisms |
| 1:11.8 | behind neuromuscular disease, |
| 1:14.1 | neurodegeneration, and neuropsychiatric disorders. |
| 1:17.4 | And together, we're going to be exploring the big question, |
| 1:20.3 | which is, how can understanding your genetics shape your long-term health. |
| 1:26.0 | We're going to discuss the usefulness of genetic testing when it comes to nutrition and health |
| 1:31.0 | and how it fits alongside other testing technologies like blood tests, |
| 1:36.0 | gut microbarone analysis and continuous glucose monitoring. |
| 1:39.7 | Dr. Grice would also introduce this concept of having a personalized profile that helps predict |
| 1:45.4 | your future health trajectory based on current data. |
| 1:49.1 | We're going to discuss the differences between genes that are deterministic, probabilistic, and informative and |
| 1:56.4 | whether we can predict what might happen to us in the future even if we are quote-unquote |
| 2:01.8 | healthy right now. We'll also discover the importance of balancing |
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