Robert Whitfield MD explains how exercise, sleep, and cruciferous vegetables help your body clear chemicals and manage gene expression. Sweating removes toxins, sleep activates the glymphatic system to clean your brain, and vegetables like broccoli support liver detoxification.
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I have control here, here and here. I can add sweat and exercise. I can get better sleep and clear out the glymphatic system of my body that helps clean chemicals. Why we while we're sleeping around the brain and spinal cord, I can add in nutrition and certain components, like cruciferous vegetables, that upregulate the body's ability to detoxify through the liver conjugation system. So you can add in all these things that really offset the genetic, or, I should say, epigenetic changes that are gene expression. You can do this, but you may not always be able to change your predisposition. And so when it comes to what you're saying, yes, everyone comes in with a whole different history and a whole different lifestyle and a whole different predisposition. And it's really, how do we meet each other to do some of the most basic things and walk through them.