This is a YouTube video titled "Dr. Mark's Minute - Nutrigenomics How Food Talks to Your Genes" created in February 2012. It features Ask AI Mark explaining the concept of nutrigenomics, describing how food acts as information that influences gene expression and metabolism, emphasizing the power of diet in health and disease prevention.
[The music fades out] I have some big surprising news for you. Food is not just calories, it's information. Now we generally think of food as a way to get energy, which we need to feed our bodies and fuel the fuel they need to work properly. But new science has shown that food literally talks to our genes. It contains information that your body receives from the foods you eat and it turns on or off genes. This gives your body instructions on how to control your metabolism from moment to moment and day to day. And every time you take a bite of food, you're talking into your genes. This is the science of nutrigenomics, or how food communicates with your genes. And it's the nutritional approach that is the basis of everything I do, including my books and the Blood Sugar Solution. In fact, Dr. Dean Ornish showed that after just three months on an intensive lifestyle program, including a whole foods, plant-based diet, that over 500 genes that regulate cancer were beneficially affected, either turning off the cancer-causing genes or turning on the cancer-protecting genes. Now, there is no medication that can do that. So remember, with every bite you eat, it's a chance to heal. Your food is medicine. It's not like medicine, it is medicine. And what you put on the end of your fork is more powerful than anything you'll ever find at the bottom of a pill bottle.
