“Genetic testing should actually empower the individual versus scare them. Once you dedicate time to learn how to interpret StrateGene®, determine the direction that you want to go with it – use it as a map. StrateGene® isn't an answer; it's a roadmap. At Seeking Health, we don't enable you – we provide you with information that allows you to determine where you want to focus on your health, how you want to do it, and then what tools you need in order to do it. You have to put the work into it but if you know your genetic variations and that certain environmental influences really affect your genetic expression either for the worse or for the better, that's extremely empowering.” – Dr. Ben Lynch
Wellness + Wisdom Episode 428
Best-selling author of Dirty Genes and President of Seeking Health, Dr. Ben Lynch, returns to discuss the power of epigenetics, what genetic testing is and why it's empowering, Dr. Ben's own genetic test kit – StrateGene® to help you find out what influences your unique genes, good vs bad technology such as Metaverse, and best practices to care for your respiratory tract especially with histamine and sinusitis.
How can you optimize your genes? What can your epigenetics tell you to help you determine which foods, behaviors, and supplements will optimize your health freedom?
Get your own genetic map and learn all of the intricate ways that your unique body communicates with itself.
[click_to_tweet tweet=”Genetic testing should actually empower the individual versus scare them. Once you dedicate time to learn how to interpret StrateGene® and determine the direction that you want to go with it – use it as a map. – @DrBenLynch of @SeekingHealth ” quote=”Genetic testing should actually empower the individual versus scare them. Once you dedicate time to learn how to interpret StrateGene® and determine the direction that you want to go with it – use it as a map. – @DrBenLynch of @SeekingHealth “]
Listen To Episode 428 As Dr. Ben Lynch Uncovers:
[1:30] The Power of Epigenetics with Dr. Ben Lynch
- M21 Guide
- Wellness Force Store
- Dr. Ben Lynch
- 353 Dr. Ben Lynch
- CV19 Truth Series: Protecting Your Health Freedom
- Dirty Genes by Dr. Ben Lynch
- What Dr. Ben is most surprised about since he and Josh last spoke on Wellness Force.
- The health concerns we still face as a nation with our physical and mental health from CV19.
- His hope that people realize just how important fundamental health practices are to keep our immune systems healthy.
- Dr. Ben's work in epigenetics and how his research is helping people transform their health.
- Dr. Bruce Lipton
- How he was introduced to Dr. Bruce Lipton's work on epigenetics and how our body deeply responds to signals from the environment.
- The impact that a poor environment and lifestyle have on the likelihood of someone having cancer.
- 140 Chris Kresser
[13:30] Why Genetic Testing is Empowering
- The terrifying moment when Dr. Ben received the genetic results for him and his family.
- How Dr. Ben addressed the genetic results after the fear went away by focusing on living a healthier lifestyle.
- Why Josh felt that the results he received from 23andMe really didn't provide him with an actionable set of guidelines to improve his health freedom.
- Breaking down what genetic testing is, how it is done, and the efficacy of brands like 23andMe compared to his product, StrateGene®.
- Why it's key to do genetic testing with saliva compared to blood which can be problematic.
- The importance of providing a quality DNA test when you submit your kit.
- Why Dr. Ben believes that 23andMe is doing a disservice to customers by reporting genes such as the BRCA and giving false hope or fear to individuals because their method is not thorough testing.
- What you can expect from your StrateGene® genetic testing results.
- Why there are so many factors beyond just the BRCA gene varients that impact a woman's chances of developing breast cancer.
- The fear and danger that is being caused by radical mastectomies when a woman's genetic testing shows positive BRCA genes being present.
- Why environment, immune system, and lifestyle are just some of the other areas we need to consider to guess the chances of disease.
[24:00] What Influences Your Unique Genes?
- Dopesick Official Trailer | Hulu
- The sad trend we're seeing in sick-care in the USA as we follow the money and the influence with organizations like Pfizer, Purdue Pharma, and the FDA with CV19.
- Josh and Carrie's decision to move to Texas from California for more health freedom.
- How knowing our genetic coding can help you live a more health-focused lifestyle.
- The work that has gone into creating StrateGene® including a compilation of thousands of research papers.
- How common issues like over-training, under-training, stress, inflammation, anxiety, nutrient deficiencies can impact things like histamine.
- What you will also receive when you purchase StrateGene® including a copy of Seeking Health and the Dirty Genes course.
- Who StrateGene® is for and who it isn't for plus why it's up to you to be 100% responsible for doing the work for your health freedom goals.
- Why sometimes too much exercise can negatively impact our body and turn on the “dirty genes” like it has for Josh.
- The fact that exercising too much can lead to histamine being created in the body.
- How caffeine can impact our genes such as histamine, adenosine, and if you have exercise-induced asthma.
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
- The dangers of oversimplifying things when it comes to our health freedom and understanding how different factors, like coffee, specifically impact our body.
[39:00] Understanding Histamine for Overall Wellness
- 297 Mike Mutzel: The Truth About Fasting
- 380 Mike Mutzel | Syndemic vs. Pandemic: What The Health Do We Do Now?
- Exploring what histamine is, what histamine intolerance is, and the function of histamine in our bodies.
- Why it isn't good to have our histamine levels too low or too high for our physical, mental, and emotional health freedom.
- The fact that histamine intolerance is so misdiagnosed and people struggle for decades because of it.
- How histamine intolerance makes people especially sensitive to things like Wi-Fi, perfume and they also tend to have high levels of irritability, diarrhea, bloody noses, ringing in your ears, and chronic sinus issues.
- BREATHE: Breath and Wellness Program
- Breaking down Seeking Health's range of Histamine Intolerance Supplements, how they help with sinusitis, and how to use them as part of your wellness toolbox.
- Why a person's microbiome in their nose is not diverse enough if they have mold and fungus in their nose, have chronic sinusitis, and chronic running noses.
- The rapid benefits people experience when they put this probiotic in their nose within seconds.
- Why some probiotics are not the right ones for the nose's microbiome and in Dr. Ben's own personal experience can even make your histamine intolerance worse.
[52:00] How Humidity Impacts Our Health
- Probiotics 101 – What everyone needs to know about them when they make a buying decision.
- How Seeking Health controls the humidity around their probiotics including when they're shipped to you to keep the quality level at its highest.
- Steps you can take at home when taking Seeking Health's supplements to help your nose's microbiome.
- What to do if you find the other probiotics are not working well enough for you.
- The importance of making a wet environment before placing Seeking Health's probiotics in your nose.
- Why not having enough humidity in your environment can impact your sinuses.
- The importance of having our sinuses wet enough to activate immune cells and prevent infections.
- Which type of humidifier you should invest in and why a Vicks humidifier is not the same thing.
- Why 55% is the sweet spot for humidity in your space and you should get a dehumidifier if it's over 60%.
- Easy ways to improve the humidity in a small room like the dormitories at universities.
- Early signs of fungal infection that you should keep an eye out for to help your health freedom goals.
- What a rapid decrease in your eye vision can tell you about your overall wellbeing.
- When you should be taking glutathione for your body.
- Optimal Liposomal Glutathione – Save 10% with code ‘JOSH'
- Visual Contrast Sensitivity (VCS) Test
- William Rea, MD: Investigating Environmental Sensitivities May Resolve “Uncurable” Illness
- Dr. Doug Kaufmann
[1:03:00] How to Treat a Fungal Infection
- Determining whether you should focus on diet, supplements, or lifestyle first to improve your health from a fungal infection.
- Why diet is a huge part of treating yeast infections and keeping your gut healthy.
- How the food you eat can either help or hurt the good gut bacteria.
- What steps you can take to get out of the cycle of eating and relying on sugar to give you a short-term burst of energy and heal your body.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Unpacking Dr. Ben's mission to help our very unhealthy and sick society heal.
- The devastation of ignoring simple health freedom fundamentals.
[1:09:00] The Devastation of Metaverse, Oculus, and Video Games on Society
- Why Mark Zuckerberg and social media are literally destroying our communities as we have the mentality of “it's us vs. them.”
- The Social Dilemma trailer
- How AI devices like Oculus for virtual reality scenarios from baseball games to recitals to dance clubs to bars are taking away from what it means to live life.
- What steps we can take to come back home to ourselves and be one with nature again.
- The evil of Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse and Oculus devices as they are an attack on humanity.
- How lockdowns and quarantines have led to the explosion of video game addiction.
- The unnatural deselection we are witnessing in our world today and what it means for future generations.
- How AI is spiking our dopamine levels to the point where we're having less human connection and even intercourse.
- Why we have to stay ahead of where technology is going and go back to simple pleasures like board games, nature, and spending real time with our loved ones
- Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race by Shanna H. Swan and Stacey Colino
- How Dr. Ben defines wellness now compared to two years ago during his first interview on Wellness Force.
- What Is Wellness? The Truth Will Set You Free
Power Quotes From The Show
[click_to_tweet tweet=”I always say that ‘health' is a four-letter word spelled ‘w-o-r-k' and you have to be able to understand what empowers your genes to work efficiently and what makes your genes work harder. – @DrBenLynch of @SeekingHealth ” quote=”I always say that ‘health' is a four-letter word spelled ‘w-o-r-k' and you have to be able to understand what empowers your genes to work efficiently and what makes your genes work harder. – @DrBenLynch of @SeekingHealth “]
The Detrimental Effects of Over Exercising
“I always say that ‘health' is a four-letter word spelled ‘w-o-r-k' and you have to be able to understand what empowers your genes to work efficiently and what makes your genes work harder. Exercise is phenomenal but if you work too hard than your genes are getting too dirty and they can't handle it and they start calling on other genes to support it and then they also get overworked and overburdened and you start breaking down.” – Dr. Ben Lynch
Dangers of Undiagnosed Histamine Intolerance
“Histamine testing is inherently not very useful and that is why histamine tolerance is so undiagnosed. People literally struggle for decades; on average it goes undiagnosed for a minimum of 6 years. So people are struggling with all of these histamine-associated issues like sensitivity to Wi-Fi or perfumes and excessive irritability, difficulties falling asleep, headaches, exercise-induced asthma, eczema, psoriasis, diarrhea, chronic sinus issues, bloody noses, or ringing in your ears.” – Dr. Ben Lynch
Having a ‘Nature First' Mindset
“Humans need to always remember ‘Nature first.' Anytime that you get stuck somewhere in your health, you need to come right back to the basics. Take off your shoes and socks and walk in nature. Walk on a forest floor, not grass that has been sprayed with chemicals. Go out in nature on a trail or step into the ocean or a lake. Just immerse yourself in Mother Nature and breathe that air; hopefully in a clean environment because that's where we came from, that's where we're going to end up again, and that's where we should be each day.” – Dr. Ben Lynch
Links From Today's Show
- 353 Dr. Ben Lynch
- CV19 Truth Series: Protecting Your Health Freedom
- Dirty Genes by Dr. Ben Lynch
- Dr. Bruce Lipton
- 140 Chris Kresser
- Dopesick Official Trailer | Hulu
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
- 297 Mike Mutzel: The Truth About Fasting
- 380 Mike Mutzel | Syndemic vs. Pandemic: What The Health Do We Do Now?
- BREATHE: Breath and Wellness Program
- Leave Wellness Force a review on iTunes
- Cured Nutrition – Get 15% off of your order when you visit wellnessforce.com/cured + use the code ‘WELLNESSFORCE'
- Organifi – Special 20% off to our listeners with the code ‘WELLNESSFORCE'
- Paleovalley – Save 15% on your ACV Complex with the code ‘JOSH'
- Drink LMNT – Zero Sugar Hydration: Get your free LMNT Sample Pack, you only cover the cost of shipping
- Botanic Tonics – Save 40% when you use the code ‘WELLNESS40′
- breathwork.io
- M21 Wellness Guide
- Wellness Force Community
- Dr. Ben Lynch
About Dr. Ben Lynch
Dr. Ben Lynch is the best-selling author of Dirty Genes and President of Seeking Health, a company that helps educate both the public and health professionals on how to overcome genetic dysfunction. He received his doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University. He lives in Seattle, WA with his wife and three sons.
Seeking Health & StrateGene®
He also established Seeking Health Educational Institute (SHEI), now operating as drbenlynch.com a website for both health professionals and lay people who want to learn more about nutrigenomics and methylation. Drbenlynch.com is now one of the most trusted resources on genetics for health professionals and laypersons worldwide.
In 2015, he developed StrateGene®, a unique approach to helping people develop natural strategies for overcoming genetic abnormalities. People who were getting their genetic challenges from websites like 23andMe or Genos Research were receiving massively confusing documents with wildly contradictory information. His system zeroes in on the genetic abnormalities that pose the greatest challenges in people’s health and then provides comprehensive plans for overcoming those challenges through diet, environment and lifestyle.
