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Epigenetics - The Medicine Nobody Told You About
A podcast for people that are ready to take their health into their own hands, who've been told by doctors that nothing more can be done. Dr. Nicola Schmitz, epigenetics coach and former orthodontist, shares the science behind why genes aren't destiny and how lifestyle, stress, nutrition, and environment turn disease on or off. Through real stories and research-backed insights, you'll learn what conventional medicine often misses about fertility, autoimmune conditions and other chronic…
Episodes
- Epigenetics - The Medicine Nobody Told You About
Season 3, Episode 5: The Switch That Decides Whether You Heal
In this episode, I talk about the guard and the gardener, two parts of your nervous system that cannot both be running at the same time. When your sympathetic…
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Season 3: Episode 4: The Liver, And What Quietly Blocks It
The liver does roughly five hundred jobs in your body, and almost all of them matter for the immune system. In this episode, I walk through the two-phase…
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Season 3, Episode 3: Sugar, Insulin, And The Silent Fire
In this episode, I talk about blood sugar not only as a metabolic fact but as an immune signal. Glucose spikes drive oxidative stress, which drives…
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Season 3, Episode 2: The Gut Decides Almost Everything
In this episode, I walk into the gut, the single location where most of your immune system lives. I explain the gut barrier as a one-cell-thick wall, and what…
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Season 3, Episode 1: When The Immune System Fights The Wrong Thing
In this episode, I open the season with a fundamental question: why does the immune system, designed to protect us, sometimes turn on the body itself? I…
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Season 2, Episode 11: The Epigenetic Lens, And A Bridge To What Is Next
In this final episode of the season, I bring the conversation together. Over the season, we have looked at genes, methylation, food, sleep, movement, stress…
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Season 2, Episode 10: When Your Relationships Live Inside Your Cells
In this episode, I talk about the biological power of relationships. I look at loneliness, social isolation, belonging, marital conflict, community, and the…
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Season 2, Episode 9: The Load You Are Carrying Without Knowing It
In this episode, I talk about environmental load - not in a dramatic or moralizing way, but as a practical biological reality. I explain how small daily…
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Season 2, Episode 8: Three Generations, And What Their Bodies Were Asked To Do
In this episode, I compare three generations of bodies: our grandmothers, our mothers, and us. I talk about how daily life used to contain continuous, varied…
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Season 2, Episode 7: Food: The Information You Eat Three Times A Day
In this episode, I talk about food not only as fuel, but as information. I look at how modern food has changed: nutrient density, processing, additives…
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Season 2, Episode 6: A Journey Through A Single Night
In this episode, I take you through one night of sleep, hour by hour. I talk about sleep as one of the most active biological states of the body: a time for…
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Season 2, Episode 5: Three Ways Stress Lives In A Body
In this episode, I talk about stress not as a vague feeling, but as biology. I describe three different stress patterns I have seen again and again: the…
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Season 2, Episode 4: The Journey Of A Single Marker
Today we do something different. We follow a single molecule on its actual journey, from a leaf of spinach growing in a field, through your gut wall, through…
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Season 2, Episode 3: The Fabric Of Your Life
Everything you do enters your body through four doors. The bloodstream, the nervous system, the hormonal cascade, and the microbiome. Every meal, every night…
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Season 2, Episode 2: Why Genes Are Not Your Destiny
If a doctor has ever told you that something runs in your family and there is nothing you can do about it, this episode is for you. Genetic risk is real…
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Season 2, Episode 1: What Epigenetics Actually Is, And What It Is Not
Two identical twin sisters, raised in the same house in northern Germany, ended up in their late fifties with two completely different bodies. Same DNA, two…
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Season1, Episode 6: Why I Am Telling You All Of This
I spent years doing this work quietly, one person at a time. This episode is about why I finally started saying it out loud. About the resistance I had to…
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Season1, Episode 5: When We Walked Away From The Life We Built
We sold our practices. We sold our house. We took our daughters and moved to Dubai. Not because we were running away. Because we understood that you cannot…
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Season1, Episode 4: What I Learned That Doctors Are Not Taught
I sat at my desk and cried in fury when I realized that the knowledge to help my husband had been in peer-reviewed journals the whole time. Nobody had taught…
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Season 1, Episode 3: The Sentence That Changed Everything
My husband said something that broke me and then, a few hours later, lit a fire that hasn't gone out since. This is the moment I discovered epigenetics. The…
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Season 1, Episode 2: The Search That Nobody Wanted Me To Do
I spent three months reading medical research at two in the morning, looking for answers the entire medical system said didn't exist. This episode takes you…
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Season 1, Episode 1: When Medicine Said No, I Said Not Yet
Before the diagnosis, before the research, before Dubai, there was a life that looked perfect from the outside. Two successful careers, two healthy daughters…