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Episode 121: He Carries the Alzheimer's Gene — So He Built a 650-Person Experiment to Beat It with Dr. Kevin Tran
At 34, pharmacist Dr. Kevin Tran took a routine consumer gene test expecting supplement tweaks — instead he found two copies of APOE4, a variant tied to up to a 33x higher Alzheimer's risk. When neurologists across three countries told him the same thing — come back when you have symptoms — he built his own answer: the Phoenix Project, a crowdsourced "N-of-many" self-experimentation community now approaching 700 members. In this episode of The DNA of Things, Kevin walks Dr. Jeremy Koenig through his own biomarker turnaround (HbA1c, cholesterol, VO2 max), the humbling truth buried in Phoenix's…
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