How can you prevent disease and extend your healthspan? Dr. Tom Stubbs of Chronomics shares how you can achieve this through epigenetics.
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Topics Discussed in this Episode:


What is epigenetics


Why people are becoming interested in epigenetics


What they do at Chronomics


How your environment and lifestyle affects your DNA


The epigenetic indicators


How epigenetics fits in with genetic testing


The shift towards disease prevention and what the future looks like for Chronomics


Whole-genome sequencing vs epigenetic testing


 
Key Takeaways:


Epigenetics is responsible for controlling your DNA. These control mechanisms are influenced by your environment and lifestyle.


Epigenetic information is used to provide people with early warning signs for how different components of their environment and lifestyle are impacting their health today and their future likelihood for disease.


Chromonics' objective measures of health are influenced by a host of different environment and lifestyle factors that we can measure and provide people with information that they can then take to improve their health moving forward.


What we see today around the world, with the rise of aging populations, is there's a massive ballooning of chronic conditions such as type II diabetes and heart disease, and a huge proportion of the risk for those conditions is driven by the environment and lifestyle.


With epigenetics, what you can do is provide people with access to an objective measure of health even before the first symptoms and signs of the diseases emerge to enable people to take action to avoid ill health.


If you choose to go on a diet and you're choosing to make changes for the long term to reduce your health risk, the epigenetic changes will align to that much more than they will with the fluctuations in yoyo dieting.


Your biological age is not a measure of how old you are but how healthy you are. Epigenetics is the gold standard in biological age measurement and essentially provides you with an overall understanding of your age-related disease risk and what you can do globally to improve your health.


Health is not just the absence of disease but the complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing of a person.


 
Action Steps:


Personalise your health and wellbeing with epigenetics.


 
Tom said:
"From a Chronomics perspective, the key driver behind the company is to improve health by making what previously people were unable to see at a molecular level to make it visible and actionable."
 
"One of the really exciting things about epigenetics and epigenetic data is that yes, it's capturing a snapshot in time, but it's capturing the impact that your life choices and your environment [have] had over a prolonged window in your life."
 
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Links to things mentioned in the show:
Previous podcast with Chronomics
 
More from Tom Stubbs and Chronomics:
Chronomics Website
Chronomics Facebook
Tom's Twitter (@t0mstubbst)
 
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