This is a YouTube video titled "Can your genes tell you how much to fast?" containing an English interview recorded in April 2021. The discussion features Dave Asprey and Rhonda Patrick talking about the future of personalized fasting recommendations based on genetic and microbiota data, including the role of artificial intelligence and ongoing research trials.
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Do you think we're going to get to the point where you look at your genes or you look at your gut bacteria or some mix of markers from the blood and go, oh, for you, you should do X amount of fasting or this is your ideal eating window. Is that even conceivable?
Oh, it's very much conceivable and I think no more than five year, five year ahead of us. Five years ahead of us. So, yeah, absolutely, that's going to be, that's already done for, you know, should you eat this or that. And so I will imagine soon enough we'll have enough data associating or correlating a certain profile of microbiota with the response or lack thereof to fasting. So we're already collecting this, for example, for multiple sclerosis trial, we're collecting microbiota. The cancer trial, we're collecting microbiota. The Alzheimer trial, we're collecting microbiota. So yeah, we, the IBD trial, I'm sure we're also doing that. So I think it's just a matter of time before we have enough data that we can say the non responders happen to have this profile. And at some point I think artificial intelligence is going to have to help us do it because it's just going to be lots of data that are extremely difficult to analyze the classical way.
Are there private companies that you've seen that are working on that problem or is this all university and government funded?
I know I don't want to mention the name of the company because I don't know if they want me to mention it. But I know even years ago we were approached by a private company looking for the data. So I will assume there are many already that are looking at intermittent fasting, periodic fasting, et cetera, et cetera. And they're starting to collect data that eventually they will analyze to distinguish the responders from the non responders.
Well, I am looking forward to that day. I would love to be able to sit down and look at someone's stack of hormones and thyroid and everything else, plug it into an AI engine and say eat for X amount this day and maybe even what to eat. And I know there's a bunch of people working on it, so I was hoping you'd tell us the coolest ones. But I understand there's NDAs in place and all.
Yeah, no, and I don't know if they have, I don't think they have it as a service yet. Right. So I don't think they're at the point that they can make that they can give it to the public. So. Yeah. So that's the main reason why I don't want to mention it. If I knew it was publicly available, I would mention it, but I'm not sure. I don't think it is.
I get it. Yeah. Don't throw a company in hot water with thousands of people calling them all at once when you can't buy what they have. But when, when, you know, send me.
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