With my genetic makeup, how might there be differences in my genetic makeup that make my relationship

with food and eating and weight loss different from yours?

Oh, okay. I probably don't have as good an answer. Genetics does not have as good an answer

about why different people eat differently, aside from cultural

differences at the moment.

Okay?

So the genetics.

The reason behind that is because it's very difficult to accurately determine what someone

has eaten in order to do genetics.

What we do know, because we can actually observe, is how people of different ethnicities

are susceptible to different diseases.

So famously, East Asian people, people that look like me, South Asian people, Indian,

Pakistanis, Bangladeshis cannot get as large BMI-wise before becoming at risk of type 2 diabetes, right? Compared to white people,

Polynesians famously, who can get pretty large before they actually end up getting diseases.

So that's a classic example where this is why South Asian people, East Asian people, have a higher

predisposition of diabetes, even though

obesity is not particularly a big thing in their cultures. But then you then begin to look at body

shape. That does matter as matter as well. Where do you put your fat? Do you tend to put a fat on your

bum, on your tummy? You know, what is your, how tall are you,

how short are you? And all of these things, which we can see visually, we can see, there are people

who are then susceptible or not susceptible to specific diseases. Other things you can't see, okay?

Why are African Americans, for example, more likely to end up

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