Join Sarah Amidon, RD and Amanda Archibald, RD, 2 DNA Dietitians, for a conversation about MTHFR, methylation, nutrigenomics, and the questions you’re afraid to ask—or can’t seem to get a straight answer to and are subject to crowdsourcing your health.

Two DNA Dietitians. Real questions. To view the episode on YouTube with the visuals we are referring to, go to http://www.youtube.com/@BeyondtheSequencePodcast

What if protecting an athlete’s future began before the first major injury? In this episode, we go beyond traditional performance metrics to explore concussion, cumulative training load, recovery, injury risk, and the emerging role of genomics in building a more individualized approach to athlete health. We also challenge the assumption that being fit always means being healthy—examining how excessive training, inadequate recovery, oxidative stress, and shifts in cardiovascular markers can create hidden risks—even in highly conditioned athletes. By looking beyond performance alone, we explore how genomics, biomarkers, and training data can help identify risk, personalize recovery, prevent injury, and build a safer, more sustainable path to long-term athletic performance and longevity.

Hormones don’t work in isolation. They work in systems. In this episode of Beyond the Sequence, Sarah and Amanda explore why hormones are far more complex than simply being "too high" or "too low." They unpack the concept of hormone signaling, explaining how production, conversion, transport, receptor function, and detoxification all influence whether hormones can effectively deliver their message. Through discussions on thyroid health, estrogen, testosterone, stress, environmental toxins, sports performance, and genomics, they reveal how understanding the body's signaling pathways can uncover the root causes behind fatigue, poor recovery, mood changes, and metabolic dysfunction—and why personalized, genomics-informed care offers a more complete path to better health.