The Real Truth About Genetic Testing, Why 23AndMe Is Not Enough (& The Most Advanced Genetic Test You Should Get Instead For Customizing Your Exercise, Your Diet, Your Supplements & More!).

Ben Greenfield (0:00)

Oh, hello, friends.

That was my best Mr. Rogers impersonation. Let me try that again. Oh, hello, friends.

Won't you be my neighbor?

Take off my sweater and my loafers here. Actually, I heard this new Mr. Rogers documentary was actually quite profound. So, this podcast is not brought to you by the Mr. Rogers documentary. This is Ben Greenfield, by the way, too, and not Mr. Rogers, although I know you're all fooled. I can also do a pretty good Kermit the Frog, by the way. Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here.

And a variety of other voices that I don't have time to get into right now, because I want to blow your mind with today's guest. This podcast you're about to hear was one of the most game-changing, from a health standpoint, discussions that I've had with a physician in a very long time.

It is all about genetics and personalizing your nutrition, your supplements, your exercise, and beyond using genetics. But man, oh man, it's far beyond this whole like 23andMe DNA fit thing.

That's old news. This is cutting edge, shiz and that. So I think you're going to dig it big time.

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Ben Greenfield (4:25)

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Ben Greenfield (4:58)

Hey, folks, it's Ben Greenfield here, and I guess it was about three months ago that hunched over my kitchen table, along with my twin 10-year-old boys.

I dripped a bunch of saliva into a tube, which I've done before for genetic testing, but this was for something different, some newfangled genetic test that Doc, who I met down in Miami, convinced me to take. So I decided to take him up on the offer, drip the saliva into my tube, taught my boys how to get the saliva flowing by, our trick is sniffing a jar of peanut butter. That seems to do the trick. And we got the saliva dripping. We sent off our saliva to this lab in Canada for a more advanced form of genetic testing than what you have probably been exposed to or read about or ever heard about. And frankly, I was blown away by what I learned from my report and also what I learned from the physician who oversaw that entire procedure for me and my boys. And in today's podcast, we're going to take a deep dive into genetic testing, the real truth about genetic testing, why tests such as 23andMe might not be enough, and how you can actually personalize your diet, your supplement regimen, your lifestyle, your exercise, everything, based on your unique genetic profile. My guest is Dr. Kareem Danani, who I had the pleasure of meeting.