Naveen Jain ON: Why Understanding Your Genes Can Greatly Improve Your Health & Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Making an Important Decision

Your genes are not your destiny; your gene expression is. You control your gene expression by changing your environment. There are very few genetic diseases (rare genetic diseases). If you’re born with a gene for Alzheimer’s, something has to trigger it later in life. We can control that trigger.

Historically women have been excluded from clinical trials. Only in the late 80s/90s did it become required to include women and minorities. Scientists were more cautious about including women after the Thalidomide tragedy that caused thousands of deformed babies.