How your genes influence how certain exercises work for you - new research

Genetics have a significant influence on many aspects of our life – from our height and eye color, our weight, and even whether we develop certain health conditions. And now, a recent review has shown that our genetics even influence how we react to a certain type of exercise.
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Welcome to the second episode of 247 Health News, sponsored by Sage Life Therapeutics. The topics that I will be discussing are going to come from my blog at 247 Health News.com or any other important health and fitness topics that I think we need to cover. I'm going to shoot for a well, before I said I was going to shoot for a weekly cadence. I ended up being monthly, I think. So we'll see how soon I can get these topics put together. Sometimes they take a little bit of research, so it takes me a little while. We will be we will be discussing hot topics concerning your health. And I would try to break them down into some some of the more complicated ideas and help them, you know, to apply to daily lives. So I'm going to try to take those complicated topics and break them down to so that they apply to our daily lives. So my name is Shay, and I'm a health coach at Sage Life Therapeutics. Let me give you a few disclaimers. My information is not meant to prescribe or be taken in lieu of discussions with your doctor or health care professional. You should always speak to your health care professional before making any nutrition or fitness changes. I'm a health coach and I am making recommendations only in that capacity. I will not be talking too much about COVID because there's because there's a lot of you know information out there about COVID already. And I think that there's enough. So these changes in our body will help us prepare for some type of movement later on down the road. So in this article, which is on my website, the link will be in the podcast description. It really talks about specific genes. So this article is near and dear to my heart because it's one of my specializations. So let's talk about a few other things. So, you know, this is super important because we need to know how to exercise to get the best results for our body. A lot of times you see online, this is also one of my pet peeves, that these all these muscle people and people are huge and veins and big burly muscles sticking out, and and you know, don't you want to be this pay me and I'll teach you how to get that way. Well, not everyone's body gets that way the same way. Now that's not to say that these folks are not good personal trainers, that they don't know what they're doing. It's not to say any of that. They know exactly how to train, and most of them are quite credentialed and quite certified. But what we don't know is what your genes are going to do as personal trainers, because I'm a certified personal trainer too. It's a trial and error to get your body to get the best results from cardio exercise, weight lifting, hit any of that. We have to look real deep to figure out how to get your body to react to certain exercises. Now, like I said, sometimes that's a trial and error situation. Sometimes that's we're gonna try this exercise and see how it works for you. Or when you sign up with a personal trainer, they'll give you what's called a fit test, and they'll try to see how your body, what shape you're in at that point, and how your body is reacting to certain exercises. So they try to get all that information up front so that they can make a good program for you to go forward to reach your health goals. So this article is talking about taking it even further. There are specific genes that indicate how your body reacts to all types of exercise. The ACE gene, for example, there's two of them: ACE1 and ACE D. These genes shown are shown to be linked to cardiovaspiratory and aerobic fitness. So it explains how the oxygen is delivered to your body tissues and it regulates your blood pressure. So that's a super important bit of information to know when we start talking about are you better suited for endurance or are you better suited for strength and power? And so you have to, I think it's super important to know this information as you try to build a program. I could definitely be just a regular personal trainer who conducted fit tests, who took a look at your body fat, who took a look at how many push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and all of that stuff that you can do up front. And then I could sort of mold an exercise and nutrition program around those things based on your history and based on what your fitness goals are. But wouldn't it be really interesting to have sort of all of this information about your genes and how your body is going to react to exercise up front? That way, on like day two, or depending on how long it takes the gene test to come back, on day 14 or 2, when we get ready to start you out on an exercise program, we absolutely know what is the best style of exercise for you to reach your particular goals. I mean, I think that would be invaluable. You know, they have genes that can tell you how your body's going to use protein and fat and the carbs. So if you're trying to burn fat, lose that stubborn belly fat or back fat or whatever you have, wherever the fat is lodged, it is important to know how your how your body stores it and how your body uses it up front. Well, there are genes to tell you that. Other interesting uh genes that that these sorts of tests can tell you your your body's fat loss response to cardio is a big one. So how does your body react to doing car cardio based on fat loss? You can you can find out about your fitness, so that means how quickly you get fitter by doing cardio, and what is what does your body composition do when you strength train? So do you get muscular fast? Does your fat convert fast? It's going to tell you these gene tests give you all of this information. So let me go back to the article because I was reading for my notes there. So, based on the article, what they did was they ran a study for 12 weeks, and this is uh really super cool. They ran a study of all these different kinds of people doing various types of exercise, comparative exercises, and they took a even after taking into account sex, age, diet, and other factors, 13 genes were directly responsible for influencing the differences of how the body reacted to various types of exercises. Why did some people get results at level 10 and why some people got results at level 8? So I think that that this genetic information is really interesting to get. So let me give you a few specifics from the article that I think are very important. So even though some folks did the exact same exercises in this study, some of the differences in their advancement in health were greater than 10%. For instance, for aerobic training, genes explained 44% of the differences in the scores that they saw. For strength training, genes explained around 72% of the gene of the differences they saw. But then for power, it was a bit lower, just right around at 10%. The rest of the differences they said in the study can be explained by other variables such as diet, sleep, recovery time, and lifestyle. So I think this is a this is something that everyone should take a look into. As I said before, it's one of my specialties because I think that knowing up front how your body's going to react, how you use the nutrition that you take in, all of those things can set your your exercise plan, your nutrition plan right up front. But I don't want you to get confused and think that just because you have certain genes that you should give up on doing certain kinds of exercises. No, that just means that you have to work differently. The article says work harder. I believe that you just have to work differently to ensure that you reach the goals that you want to reach. I mean, it makes complete sense to me that everybody has a different set of genes, so their body will react differently to exercise. And you can see that in the differences at the gym. If you, you know, took a guy, two guys that worked did the exact same exercises at the gym, you know, you see differences of sizes, and workout partners are very much the an example of that. You might have a workout partner that adapts to exercise differently from you, and you're like, wow, you know, you're leaning out real fast, and I'm still carrying a little fat here and there. So I want to want you to really think about that when you get ready to start doing your exercise and and picking a trainer as well. As I said, this is one of my specialties. I'll I'll um you can pop a uh send me a message, and if you're interested in in trying out a gene test, I can definitely help you out with that. But read the article first, take a look at the information because it's important to find out all this information about yourself anyway. Uh, we are in a time where your health is paramount, and it makes sense to to find out everything you can as quickly and easy as as easy as you can. So thanks. I'm gonna wrap this one up at around, look at this, pretty short, 13 minutes. Again, if you have any questions, feel free to contact me, and I'll be happy to do any sort of consultation and discuss it with you. Again, this is health coach Shay with Sage Life Therapeutics giving you 24-7 health news.