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Zach Bush, MD’s Beautiful Vision For Human & Planetary Evolution
The Rich Roll Podcast
The Evolution of Human Life
Our life expectancy is going down over the last few decades, not up despite stem cell innovations and everything you've ever heard of that sounds super exciting and positive genetics. We didn't have the human genome decoded when I started medical school. Now we find out a single gene can have 200, 400 different endpoints. It can produce 200 or 400 different proteins depending on its environment. You extrapolate that out towards 20,000 genes and you find out, wow, rich you could make 4 million different bodies from the genes your mother and father gave you. And so it's on one hand a grim reality, wow, we really miss the boat on our reductionist definition of what human life
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