Nutrition, Exercise and Health Science
The Science Behind the Gene Smart Diet
While the Gene Smart Anti Inflammatory Diet & Exercise Principles are simple to follow, behind the scenes the science is revolutionary and leverages numerous leading edge scientific discoveries and approaches based on our latest understanding of nutrition, exercise and health science.
One of the most unique differences of the Gene Smart program is its focus on reducing whole body inflammation. Increasingly, health science is showing that many of the diseases we once considered diseases of aging, are in fact, diseases of inflammation. The great news is that through proven strategies based on the latest nutrition, exercise and health science, individuals can reduce whole body inflammation, naturally, through specific diet principles and a particular approach to exercise. Dr. Chilton has spent over 30 years researching inflammation and inflammatory diseases. In fact, his mentor was part of a Nobel Prize winning team that mapped one of the key inflammatory pathways in the human body.
The adaptive stress response is a genetic response to environmental stress that helps our cells take care of themselves more efficiently and thoroughly than they would ordinarily. The Gene Smart program utilizes strategies based on the latest research of nutrition, exercise and health science to trigger the adaptive stress response through particular bioactives in our food, and through a specific approach to exercise.
The Human Genome project was completed in 2003. This remarkable project, which took 13 years and cost $3 billion, identified the 30,000 genes present in the human body. This new knowledge provided Dr. Chilton and his research colleagues throughout the world a whole new set of tools to discover how specific lifestyle approaches based on nutrition, exercise and health science principles, can influence our genes and our health. The science is in its early days. Dr. Chilton is a world-leader in understanding how the roughly 2,000 genes control the inflammatory response, including the master regulators that control cascades of other inflammatory genes.
Bioactives are specific compounds that are present in food. Bioactive compounds aren’t nutrients in the classical sense; that is, they’re usually not essential for life, but emerging research suggests that they are essential for good health. Essentially, the bioactives are Mother Nature’s pharmacy. They are potent and have terrific efficacy, even in very small quantities. And they are much safer, because unlike pharmaceuticals, bioactives have developed along with our bodies to be used by them. More precisely, in the right dosages, they interact directly with the master health regulators that control our genes. The Gene Smart program focuses on three particular types of bioactives: fiber, polyphenols and omegas.
Clinical Studies - Nutrition, Exercise and Health Science
There are hundreds of clinical trials from a number of medical institutions and published in the best scientific journals that support the individual principles of the Gene Smart approach.
In addition, Dr. Chilton’s own laboratory recently completed an eight-week long observational wellness study with 59 participants of all shapes and sizes on the effectiveness of the Gene Smart Program. Perhaps not surprisingly since each individual strategy is clinically validated, the results from the observational study on the Gene Smart program showed that individuals lost weight, decreased whole body inflammation, reduced risk of disease, improved their overall health, and improved their mood and energy! Gene Smart is one of few wellness programs proven to work in this type of study which has added new insights to our understanding of the relationship between nutrition, exercise and health science.
