it wasn't the pima indians' genes that were the problem. they were not adapted to industrial food, but to jackrabbits and cactus and acorns, and neither are we. your genes are not your destiny. you can change your environment what you eat, what you think, how you move, and change how your genes get expressed. the pima indians did notave a choice, but you do. if you want to fit into your jeans, you have to fit into your genes. [ laughter ] now, which genes get turned on or off depends on what you eat and what you do every day. and later in the show, i'll explain how to turn on the right genes by making better diet and lifestyle choices. i will teach you how to upgrade your biologic software with better information. the second myth is that pre-diabetes is not a big deal. now, most people think that pre-diabetes is only a risk ctor for getting diabetes sometime in the ture. but pre-diabetes is not pre-anything. it can and it does make over 100 million americans sick and kills many of them. ron, one of my patients, found this out the hard way.