Peter Attia· MD
in heart disease we we really have a pretty clear sense of what the genetics look like so there are a handful of genetic things like familial hyper cholesterolemia which is a very very heterogeneous condition that raises APO lipoprotein uh B uh LP little a which will save for another time we've got lots of content on that um but when it comes to cancer we we know that boy there are some really clear and obvious genetic drivers of cancer like there are a handful of genes some that many people have heard of such as braa one or braa 2 which are heavily associated with um breast cancer um or Lynch syndrome um which would be heavily associated with colon cancer and other types of cancer but for the most part part when we say that cancer runs in a person's family we still aren't really even able to identify the genes through which this is transmitted it appears to be very polygenic