Robert Whitfield MD explores how genetic variants and individual stressors shape chronic health outcomes. He argues that informed choices matter more than one-size-fits-all medical advice, and that healthcare needs to account for the diversity of how people's bodies actually work.
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But I think now there's a lot more diversity of thought and research and information out there for people to have choice when it comes to their health care. We can't change those genetic variants to how your body responds to stressors like biotoxins or methylates, detoxes, but you can change what you put in that bucket. And that's, you know, things like you're doing, like you're significantly emptying that bucket by dealing with those sources of inflammation. And same here with us, like we're. By healing the gut, by dealing with these environmental toxins, dealing with these other variables, here we're emptying that proverbial bucket. So while it's sobering, when you look at the rise of autoimmune and fertility issues, which we didn't even talk about, but these other chronic health problems, but we know more about these issues now more than ever before. Right. Whereas if you look at our parents generation or the grandparents generation, yeah, they were exposed to less, less, I get that. But they still dealt with chronic disease and they still like had like no answers. Right. It was like there was five stations on the television and if a guy on the white coat said, said it, it was the gospel. But I think now there's a lot more diversity of thought with and, and research and information out there for people to have choice when it comes to their healthcare.