Change Your Genes, Change Your Life: Creating Optimal Health with the New Science of Epigenetics

Biology is no longer destiny. Our DNA doesn't determine our health and disease prospects, as geneticists once believed. According to the new science of epigenetics, the vast majority of our genes are fluid and dynamic, and their expression is shaped by what we think and what we do. Our genetic profile may signal an inherited vulnerability to a disease, but our choices and behaviors determine whether these genes will be switched on or off. This short but profound book by renowned pioneer in integrative medicine, Kenneth Pelletier, reveals that each of us can change our genes to create optimal health.

In Change Your Genes, Change Your Life Pelletier focuses on creating optimal health and delves into the science of lifestyle medicine, explaining why and how--through diet, meditation, environment, and lifestyle--we can actually switch genes on or off to compensate for our genetic vulnerabilities. The real upshot of the epigenetic revolution is that it opens the door to what has been called the Era of Personalized Medicine. Pelletier explains the genetic biomarkers that will become the standard reference for measuring which specific lifestyle changes are required to optimize a given individual's health, based on their genetic profile.

This book exclusively unveils a new protocol that Pelletier has co-developed in conjunction with the Mayo Clinic that--in a few short years--will provide specific individual recommendations on how to turn on positive generic markers and turn off negative ones.