Episode #147
Your genes can guide when you should train and how you should fuel—chronotype (CLOCK) and caffeine metabolism (CYP1A2) affect focus, recovery, and sleep.
If you’re genetically not a morning type, shifting workouts to roughly midday–4 pm and limiting caffeine to early morning can improve performance and sleep quality.
Fitness Genes provides DNA-driven training and nutrition plans; insights are science-based but not absolute—use them as a personalized starting point and adjust.
For you getting up incredibly early and working out at the time you're working out, might not necessarily be the best thing for you.
Most of the information you're consuming when it comes to fitness is not based on any science whatsoever.
anybody that has anything to do with human performance, if they ever say anything, if they ever try and tell you that something is 100% accurate, then, you know, immediately they're talking rubbish.
Optimize eating and exercising based on your DNA. (54:14)
CEO and co-founder of Fitness Genes Dr. Dan Reardon. FitnessGenes is the first DNA-testing platform of its kind to eliminate guesswork from fitness and nutrition. With a simple DNA test their team of genetic scientists reveal specific traits including metabolic tendencies, dietary sensitivities, fat burning capacity, muscle type, recovery time and more so that you can optimize your diet and workouts for maximum results.
Dr. Reardon is a medical doctor and genetics expert who has been featured in The New York Times and Men’s Fitness and on Fox News, ABC News, Inside Edition, The Today Show, and BBC News.
An emergency-room doctor for 10 years, he’s also a certified personal trainer with more 15 years of experience. Dr. Reardon has written two books and was formerly the science editor of Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazines.
Today he’s going to share with us how our genes impact our fitness and what you can do about it. He’s also going to read the results of my own DNA sample to tell me how they impact my health.
