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Genes Are Not Your Destiny: Stanford Researcher Explains | Dr. Lucia Aronica
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By Makai Allbert
1/14/2026Updated: 1/16/2026

Can you rewrite your genes? Stanford epigenetics scientist Lucia Aronica explains how food, exercise, and lifestyle choices shape your DNA expression every day.

Aronica is a nutrigenomics researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine with 17-plus years of research experience. She developed Stanford’s inaugural courses in nutritional epigenetics and longevity medicine, has published in leading journals such as Cell and BMC Medicine, and was featured in the 2024 Netflix documentary “You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment.”

In this conversation, she breaks down her “epi-nutrition” framework for optimizing gene expression through diet, explains that genetics account for only about 25 percent of health outcomes, and shares her “Epi-Wholeness” approach to longevity. Learn why joy and pleasure are essential to sustainable health changes and how you can become an active writer of your health story starting today.

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