Phelps
one almost decorated athletes of all
time and as you can imagine you cannot
get this kind of awards over words with
the boat loaded of hard work and
dedication but Michael he has in his
physiological characteristics a number
of quirks that support the nickname that
he got that is the flying fish why is he
the flying fish because the wings spam
dance between his tips of his hands is
so big in a normal person this distance
should be more or less the size of our
eight with first – 2 or 3 centimeters
for Michael it has seven point six
centimeters larger than his eight then
he has the wrong body and upper body
dimension Michael has an upper body
dimension that is equivalent of a person
with two point zero seven meters and the
lower body dimension that is equivalent
of a person of one point eight meters so
he’s not proportional at all but it has
a very strong dorsal okay he also has
one very important characteristics that
is almost all swimming at leats they
have something that we call
hyperextension of knees and elbows this
is something that you can gain with
training but what Michael has is the
extremity of his legs something that his
rivals do not have that are a foot that
is a foot size
50 that acts like a fin and here’s
something else that is are we his body
deals with acid lactic acid when you
start sports or performing an activity
your body starts producing this exit and
this exit brings fatigue and bringing
becames turns the muscle to slow down
and it was scientifically proved because
it was measured that this person
produces off of the lactic acid than his
rivals so it means that he recovers just
why are where are all those
characteristics where where are they in
this body where they came from Michael
it could choose in his life to be some
someone else or to do something else but
this man was made to swim and was made
to win and all those characteristics
they came from here from his DNA DNA is
a crystal that exists inside yourselves
it was pictured so someone took a
picture in the fifties it was an amazing
scientist rosalind Franklin rosalind
Franklin and this lady for the first
time showed to the world all these
crystal would like but the point is that
did is took us 40 years to develop the
technology that was able to go inside
the cell remove the crystal and unfold
it to be able to read it – read the
chemistry how is it oh it is and the
amazing thing is that crystal is May
by an alphabet of four letters ACTG and
each one of you has three billions
letters of light of these ones of these
four letters inside each one of
yourselves and I really like would like
to show you our amazing what is the
amount of information that you have if I
had the chance I would bring something
else here but I will try to provide you
the same feeling see this shelf with all
these books for the first time someone
printed a human genome and this is the
human genome of a guy named Craig
venture that when one of the first
persons that built the human genome
project to understand the human genome
so they printed crink craig venter
genome and this is why i could not bring
all the books here and you as you can
imagine these books they have 262,000
characters and the weight 450 kilos so
as you can imagine it will be difficult
to bring all the books here ok but I
brought one book I brought the book one
of the books from chromosome 7 and in
this book I can open the book in one of
the pages and it looks like this so now
I start reading a little piece of the
book for you a 8020 to GGC c a g TT g
acc it means perhaps nothing the
disciplines that is here reveal the
color of your eyes so this belongs to a
gene that if the first someone has that
sequence will have blue eyes at the same
size why did I choose chromosome 7
because a little further in the book I
can find a place where there is a gene
that if you have the gene you will have
a very terrible disease cystic fibrosis
one of the most severe dominant
chromosomal dominant pathologies that
can be alleged from your parents and
everything is in the same those
informations in the same book and you
could see okay based on those shelves
that we are really different
if I remove if I forget to X and
these 500 pages represent only the
differences between all of us all the
remaining books are the same but these
pages they say a lot about us and for a
long time those pages and those
informations have been use to explain
human characteristics or to explain
disease and the point is can your DNA
coaching can we use this data to help us
to be healthy not to talk about disease
not just to be curious about our head or
our colors or our hair but really help
us in a daily basis and the good news is
yes there’s a new field that is being
developed nowadays very fast because we
have the data and we have the algorithms
to build to use the data in a way that I
that we can use the data to help you in
a day basis to unlock your hardwired
potential to help people to define a
balanced and happy life and to be
healthy that’s what we want at the end
of the day
perhaps you have inside your genome an
information that tells that you have an
even secret and can be like at least or
even that you have the petition to be a
weightlifter or just that you are
protected from injury and if you could
use this in a daily basis in your life
you can be and to be happy and to be
healthy this is what we con can already
do use algorithms to provide you your
for example athletic potential we can
use this data on workout plans we can
use this data in nutrition to tell you
what you should eat because your body
metabolizes better and we can use this
data just to help you to choose a
lifestyle behavior that will make you
healthy and that you will prep in this
case we can see if this person this is a
high-performance athlete from Portugal
that got an Olympic medal as you can see
that person has an increased potential
for power exercises for endurance
exercises for power endurance
this is respiratory capacity capacity
for muscle building based on this data
you can define the sport that you would
like to do I didn’t test my Michael
Phelps as you can see you can imagine I
would like to test him but perhaps he
has all these potential already in
coding in his DNA
but you can also use this in nutrition
as I told you to understand what are the
L the the food that you should eat
sometimes you need to increase some
ingredients they are things that you
should eat because your body is not
setting or metabolizing well so you need
to compensate and sometimes there are
elements that are nutrients that you
should reduce because your body will
have problems to deal with them I’m not
saying that this data and you can say
okay this is just more data but a very
sizeable and critical one the data that
will avoid to do trial and error that
will help you to define just from the
beginning the best thing to do that is
great for you as a unique human being
and as you can imagine this data will
help you to define a balanced path for
your life and balance balance can have
many many shapes and believe me this is
the power of genetics thank you [Applause]