You can't edit your DNA without CRISPR, but diet, inflammation control, and lifestyle changes alter how your genes express themselves. An Australian colleague used nutrition-focused interventions to shift a child's autism diagnosis back to normal range, showing phenotypic outcomes can change dramatically even when DNA stays the same.
I want to change my genome to be more highly functional. How soon can I do it? Unless you have access to crispr, you can't actually change your genome. Some of this work is really understanding that, yes, you can't necessarily change your DNA, but if you understand your DNA, you can change transcription and expression. So really what we're doing is taking the knowledge of our DNA to change how much of it goes into proteins. A colleague of mine from Australia who had her first degree in molecular biology and then got into genetics and nutrition as her second PhD, her child developed autism around age 2. And she's like, well, if what we've been doing in diet, environment, exposure to inflammation, et cetera could trigger this, then we can figure out how to untrigger it. We have thousands of children that their Atex score has gone from the autistic range back into the normal. Because why would a disease go from 1 out of every thousand or even 10,000 children to 1 out of every 35 in one lifetime? Let's begin. Because of the interactions, if you're swabbing somebody, their DNA sequence will be the same, but you can certainly change their phenotype, how they feel. They don't have to be anxious anymore, they don't have to be depressed anymore or have brain fog.
