Epigenetics - The Medicine Nobody Told You About
Claim This Podcastby Dr. Nicola Schmitz
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<p>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 diseases, burnout, and aging. New episodes every Tuesday.</p>
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July 28, 2026
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 of sleep, every stressful call, every walk, every drink of water passes through one of these four channels and becomes, on the other side, information for your cells. In this episode, we walk through each of the four doors and see how they actually work. We look at estrogen recycling and why the gut has more to do with hormones than most people realize. We meet a businessman whose morning routine looked perfect from the outside, and whose afternoons quietly undid everything he had built in the mornings. And we set up the bridge into the next episode, where we go deep into methylation, the switch behind everything else we have discussed. If you have ever wondered what actually happens to a meal or a stressful conversation once it enters your body, this is the episode where the machinery gets visible. If you are interested in becoming an Epigenetics Coach yourself, have a look here: Certified Epigenetics Coach Training Sources Hartley, T. R. et al. - Caffeine and Stress: Implications for Risk, Assessment, and Management of Hypertensionhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8101832/ Reis, C. E. G. et al. - Effects of Coffee Consumption on Glucose Metabolismhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6544578/ National Cancer Institute - Benzene and Cancer Riskhttps://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/substances/benzene Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / NIOSH - Benzene: NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazardshttps://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0049.html U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Volatile Organic Compounds’ Impact on Indoor Air Qualityhttps://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/volatile-organic-compounds-impact-indoor-air-quality Joye, Y. - Some Reflections on the Relevance of Fractals for Art Therapyhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147024/ Stay connected: Website: www.dr-nicolaschmitz.com Instagram: @alter._health Email: support@reply.dr-nicola-schmitz.com
July 21, 2026
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. Genetic destiny is not. The gap between the two is where almost all of the useful work happens, and almost nobody is taught to see it. We look at penetrance, which is the technical word for how often a gene actually produces the trait it codes for. We look at the Dutch Hunger Winter studies, which showed that what one generation lives through can shape the biology of the next. And we walk through a client story about a woman who was tested for the BRCA1 gene and, after receiving her result, said something that stays with me: I have wasted twenty years. Free download with this episode: Family History Mapping, a structured guide to look at your own family history and see the patterns that actually matter. If you carry a family history that has been weighing on you, or you want to think about your own biology with better information, this is for you. Sources GeneReviews / NCBI Bookshelf - BRCA1- and BRCA2-Associated Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancerhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1247/ National Cancer Institute - BRCA Gene Changes: Cancer Risk and Genetic Testinghttps://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/genetics/brca-fact-sheet Kuchenbaecker, K. B. et al. - Risks of Breast, Ovarian, and Contralateral Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriershttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2632503 Chen, S. & Parmigiani, G. - Meta-Analysis of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Penetrancehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267287/ Heijmans, B. T. et al. - Persistent Epigenetic Differences Associated with Prenatal Exposure to Famine in Humanshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579375/ Kaati, G., Bygren, L. O., & Edvinsson, S. - Cardiovascular and Diabetes Mortality Determined by Nutrition During Parents’ and Grandparents’ Slow Growth Periodhttps://www.nature.com/articles/5200859 Vågerö, D. et al. - Paternal Grandfather’s Access to Food Predicts All-Cause and Cancer Mortality in Grandsonshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07617-9 Ben Lynch - Dirty Geneshttps://www.harpercollins.com/products/dirty-genes-ben-lynch Stay connected: Website: www.dr-nicolaschmitz.com Instagram: @alter._health Email: support@reply.dr-nicola-schmitz.com
July 14, 2026
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 different lives, two different biologies. This is the door into Season 2, and into one of the most important scientific findings of the last twenty years: your genes are not the script of your life. There is a layer above the genes, called the epigenome, that decides what each gene actually does. And that layer is being shaped, every day, by what you eat, how you sleep, how you move, how you feel, and who you spend your days with. In this opening episode, we look at the strange and humbling story of the Human Genome Project, how researchers expected to find a hundred thousand human genes and instead found about twenty thousand, roughly the same as a roundworm. We look at what was hiding in the ninety-eight percent of DNA once dismissed as junk. And we introduce the piano metaphor that will hold together the rest of the season. If you have ever wondered why one person stays well and another falls apart on the same diet, in the same family, with the same medical care, this is the episode that answers the question. Sources National Human Genome Research Institute - Human Genome Project Fact Sheethttps://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/educational-resources/fact-sheets/human-genome-project National Institutes of Health - National Human Genome Research Institute Almanachttps://www.nih.gov/about-nih/nih-almanac/national-human-genome-research-institute-nhgri Feinberg, A. P. - The Key Role of Epigenetics in Human Disease Prevention and Mitigationhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752894/ Alegría-Torres, J. A., Baccarelli, A., & Bollati, V. - Epigenetics and Lifestylehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752894/ Bruce H. Lipton - The Biology of Beliefhttps://us.macmillan.com/books/9781683649076/thebiologyofbelief/ Stay connected: Website: www.dr-nicolaschmitz.com Instagram: @alter._health Email: support@reply.dr-nicola-schmitz.com
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<p>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 diseases, burnout, and aging. New episodes every Tuesday.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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