Hey there and welcome to Pursuing Health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, Family Physician and

Former CrossFit Games Athlete. Here is your bonus weekly CrossFit Health Tip which

was originally published on CrossFit.com. Enjoy!

Alright, I'm here today with Dr. Mike Malin of CrossFit Precision Care and we're going

to get some answers on what exactly precision medicine is. So let's just start there.

Precision medicine is a large data set, data driven approach to health care that sort

of recognizes that we're all different. We're all unique human beings. I think in traditional

medical care, the thing that you would expect to get from your standard physician or that

we teach at medical schools today, we sort of take this approach that we want to find

that one intervention that works for everybody. In reality, we never really find that.

We're all different. We find that intervention that works for most people. So precision medicine

is this concept that what if we think about this a different way? We take in more data

points and instead of trying to apply a single intervention that's going to work for

most people, let's figure out what's just going to work for that one unique person in

front of us. In order to do that, we're going to need things like DNA. We're going to need

to understand your epigenetics. We need a large laboratory panel, a conversation that

goes beyond what you typically have with your physician. So a real deep understanding

of how you live your daily life, your risk factors, and then what your goals are because

that's important as well. I love it. So it's taking into account

all of these factors when you're deciding what's best for the patient sitting in front

of you and being really precise about it. Exactly. I could talk. Now you mentioned in

their epigenetics. Can you explain a little bit what that is?

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