Precision Medicine in Real Life: Genetics, N-of-1 Care & The Future of Healthcare with Dr. Anil Bajnath
Welcome to another FMP Essentials Express episode — fast, focused, and packed with high-yield insights for practitioners, health coaches, and functional medicine fans who want powerful takeaways in just minutes.
In this episode, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down with Dr. Anil Bajnath, a physician at the forefront of precision medicine, genomics, epigenetics, and individualized care, to break down how genetics, environment, and lifestyle intersect to create truly personalized healing.
You’ll learn what an N-of-1 approach really means (and why it’s the future), how genes interact with the exposome and chronobiome, and which high-impact genes can radically change your prevention and treatment strategy.
What You’ll Learn in This Express Episode
- What true precision medicine is — far beyond a panel of SNPs
- How N-of-1 care reframes diagnosis, optimization, and personalized treatment
- Why environment (the exposome) controls 70% of health outcomes
- How circadian rhythms (the chronobiome) regulate metabolism, sleep, and gene expression
- Why identical genes don’t produce identical lives — and how epigenetics rewrites the story
- The top gene variants that influence brain health, methylation, detoxification & longevity
- How practitioners can integrate actionable genomics into everyday patient care
Key Takeaways
- Genes load the gun, but environment pulls the trigger.
Epigenetics determines how genes express, adapt, and shift across a lifetime. - Precision medicine requires precision lifestyle.
Food, sleep, stress, toxins, movement, microbiome, light exposure — all alter gene expression. - N-of-1 is the new standard.
Studies look at thousands; precision medicine looks at you — your DNA, labs, phenotype, and lived reality. - APOE status isn’t destiny.
Sleep quality, glymphatic drainage, antioxidant status, lipid biology, and lifestyle choices matter more than genetics alone. - Methylation and detox genes (MTHFR, GSH pathways) guide targeted nutrient support and detox capacity.
- Genetics predict potential — not fate.
Personalized medicine gives people control of their trajectory.
Who This Episode Is For
- Functional Medicine Practitioners
Looking to add true precision tools — genomics, omics, phenotype analysis, and N-of-1 frameworks — into clinical care.
- Health Coaches & Nutrition Professionals
Supporting clients with lifestyle interventions influenced by genetics, sleep, stress, metabolism, and detox capacity.
- Functional Medicine Enthusiasts & Patients
Who want to understand their body at a deeper, data-driven level and learn how genes interact with environment and daily habits.
This express episode gives you the essentials — concise, powerful, and immediately applicable.
Connect
FMP Essentials
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Dr. Yousef Elyaman
Instagram: @drelyaman
Dr. Anil Bajnath
Instagram: @dranilbajnath
Precision Medicine Practice: Institute for Human Optimization
Author of The Longevity Equation
Founder, American Board of Precision Medicine: www.theabpm.org
Music: “Heroes Approaching – Extended” by tunes2go
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Disclaimer
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