Adam Torres and Kim Ressler discuss nutrigenomics.
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Show Notes:
Nutrigenomics can help those who want to age better and improve their overall health and wellness. In this episode, Adam Torres interviews Kim Ressler, CEO and Founder at SNiP Nutrigennomics, explore Kim’s mission to share nutrigenomics and SNiP Nutrigennomics.
About Kim Ressler
Revolutionizing health and wellness through an innovative – and highly personalized – approach to nutrition
After spending more than ten years coping with debilitating health challenges and being continually misdiagnosed, Kim grew extremely frustrated with conventional and traditional medicine’s failure to achieve a meaningful and sustainable impact on her health.
When she discovered the efficacy and staying power of nutritional genomics, she became passionate about this life-changing approach to wellness and vitality. Kim have subsequently devoted her life to spreading awareness of and access to nutraceuticals over pharmaceutical interventions.
Everyone should have access to simple, affordable tools supporting their immediate and long-term health goals!
As founder and CEO of SNiP Nutrigenomics, Kim lead a first-rate team of clinicians, biotech leaders, and health & wellness advocates who are at the forefront of DNA-customized nutrition. Their mission is to change the face of wellness by providing a simple, effective, and highly customized solution to health challenges.
SNiP’s personalized, DNA-based nutritional supplement addresses unique genetic challenges while reducing pill fatigue, complex supplement routines, and confusion.
Prior to her journey into nutrigenomics, Kim built a career as a marketing executive in the publishing industry, where she created and launched unique training and development programs. In addition to her professional background, Kim also proud of the work she did with St. Jude Children’s Hospital and School Power, coordinating events and raising money for worthy causes.
About SNiP Nutrigenomics
SNiP Nutrigenomics are the only company on the planet with science-backed, proprietary technology to custom compound DNA-based, personalized nutritional supplements to market scale.
Their products are designed to address individual genetic vulnerabilities impacting overall health, including cognitive, mood, cardiovascular, and immune functioning.
Full Unedited Transcript
Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right, so today’s guest is Kim Ressler. She’s founder and CEO over over at SNP Nutrigenomics.
Kim, welcome to show. Thank you, Adam. Delighted to be here today. How are you? Oh, I’m having all kinds of fun. And for everybody listening, we were just kind of warming up and Kim was dropping all of this knowledge. I mean, I had to cut her off and say, wait a minute. I want my listeners to hear this.
We can’t like, edit all this stuff out. So Kim, I want to get into that and more. We’re going to talk about what a SNP is, the name, the reason for the name. Of course, we’re going to talk about your company, what you’re doing. But first we’ll start with what I like to call our Mission Matters Minute.
So Kim, at Mission Matters, our aim and our goal and our mission is to amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts to get their mission heard to the masses. That’s our mission. That’s what we do day in and day out. Kim, what mission matters to you? What mission matters to me is people having the opportunity to live.
The longest life feeling the best that they possibly can and understanding that genetics are complex, but that’s one thing that snip does is takes out a lot of the guesswork, simplifying it, making it easy to understand and easy to put in little hacks into your life through all of that. We do. It’s great.
Love being a mission based people on the line to share what they do, how they do it. And really what we can all learn and gain from that as we kind of go through this world together. So thank you. So I guess just to get us kicked off. Did you have like a before going into this business before being an entrepreneur?
Did you have like a medical background? Like, like, how did all this come to where you started this company? Like, where did that start from? Oh, well, crazy enough, no, I’m not from the medical background. However, I went 11 years looking for answers for my own health. I think that is a lot of people and I tried so many things.
So thousands upon thousands of dollars spent you know, doing this and doing that becoming vegan, trying this and trying that. , and until I addressed my genetics, I, you know, I was getting nowhere. I mean, I would feel a little bit better or whatever, but I had no idea what was going on with myself and nobody could tell me what was going on or why I never felt good, didn’t have good energy, brain fog, you know, terrible digestion.
And I was doing what we call everything. epigenetically correctly. So a whole foods exercise mindset. I was doing everything else, but I wasn’t going to the core of what was me, which was my own genetics. How did you discover this field in the first place? Like, what was, the revelation or the introduction?
Well, crazy enough, in 2014, a very dear friend of mine had reached out to me and she said, you know they’ve told me that my son is ADHD and I, and that we need to do something for him at school and I refuse to put him on medication. And she said, I’m having his genetics tested and I think that there’s some answers in there.
I watched her over a nine month period spend 10, 000 on it. Virtually one gene, and then custom formulating on that one gene, and it was a night and day difference for that child, and I was like, I wonder if this is the answer for me, and I was ready to go down that path, and then the technology that I work with literally landed in my lap a few days later when my husband and I were both getting ready to start on our own genetic mapping.
Hmm. And so what did that first, like, what was the first foray as you started going through there? Because so now you have this idea and just to kind of paint the picture, you have this idea and you’re like, oh, maybe that’s going to work for me. It worked for somebody else. And now you begin the journey.
Like, what was that? Like, well, I mean, you know, we all want help. We want to think that, you know, we found something, but, , you know, What was more powerful about it is it was me. We started, you know, everybody talks about biohacking, but, you know, truly, how can you biohack yourself unless you know what you’re biohacking or how can you , that was, that was the first aha.
For me, when I, first did my genetic test and I could see my body needs specific nutrients in specific formats, and I was like, wow, you know, what is going to happen? You know, again, I was filled with hope of an answer of feeling better, better energy, better sleep. I mean, all of these things.
And it was very interesting as. I saw my genetics and then as I started to simply address them through what we create , it was the, it was the energy. It was the sleep. It was the digestion. It was, it was, you know, I was doing things at the cellular level through nutrigenomics that was making the change.
In my life. And I literally felt like I got back something that had been stolen from me for years. That’s amazing. What a story. And I love when people start businesses, whether it’s in health or fitness or wellness, longevity, or just, you know, a service business, whatever, like I’ve met you know, all those things.
CFO that they started an outsourced CFO business based on their own need in their own business and the mistakes they made. I mean, whatever it is, I do like when somebody is solving a problem for themselves, they solve it and then they take that idea or that nucleus of that idea, whatever it turns into and create a business and help others with it.
I think it’s amazing. So let’s take maybe a step back for those that are not. I’m familiar with nutrigenomics, or even SNP, like in the name, SNP Nutrigenomics and maybe explain a little bit more about the science and even what a SNP is, because that’s where I don’t know what it is. Absolutely. Okay.
So the reason for the name SNP is it’s what we in genetics, we look at single nucleotide polymorphisms. It’s, it’s so SNPs. So it’s pronounced SNP. So that was the reason for the name. You know simple, easy to remember and a little catchy. Nutrigenomics is ultimately the study of your genetics and what nutrients your body needs based on these basically, I would, would call them glitches little patches that we need when we inherit from our parents.
We’re never, that’s never going to change these little, these little snips that maybe have variants in them that we need specific nutrients to fill in the gap, to help that cell function at a higher level. So nutrigenomics answers that question. It literally answers what you need, why you need it in what format and what dose when you have these genetic variants.
We can do this simply now. This is, that’s what’s beautiful about it. We can do it very simply where it doesn’t have to be a whole bunch of alphabet soup and me, me telling you, hey, based on your genetics, you need to take 60 or 70 different supplements a day. We have the ability and technology to pull all that into one.
Wow. And what does the process look like, like of going through the process? What does the process look like? Well, one, genetic testing whether, whether you chose to test with somebody else or you want to test with us completely HIPAA compliant. And then from there we use, we are only looking at actionable genes.
I don’t, we don’t, I’m not interested in genes that, Tell me about your eye color or your propensity to have a unibrow or where you’re from. I want the genes that are actionable, that science has proven. Plant based nutrition, vitamins, minerals, micronutrients can literally fill in the gap. So everything that we do is all science based.
Understanding the what and why you need what you need. So I look at highly actionable ones that impact us. In our aging, so whether they’re related to heart health, detox, inflammation methylation, everybody’s talking about methylation, that’s just one little area that we hit oxidative stress, we hit all of these different areas together that ultimately function because genes don’t play alone they play in tandem in systems of the body, and so we go after these systems to help optimize the cellular expression to give the body what it, What it needs so the body can do what it needs to do naturally.
What kind of things have you seen come from this? Like you’re working with somebody and otherwise, and you see like, and even in your own case, like what can be some of the outcomes of this? Everybody’s different and everybody has their own health challenges.
One, what it first reveals is these are the areas that you need to focus on or in your aging process. But one person may not be. feel anything from it. But that would be my husband. He doesn’t feel anything, but we, he does his blood work two times a year and we can see his blood work is drastically improved for me, what it’s done is, you know, Energy better sleep, better digestion.
My joint mobility is that is amazing. I don’t have my ultimate issue is I’ve been dealing with two autoimmunes that had gone undiagnosed for 11 years and I, Live feeling great without without using pharmaceuticals. I don’t need them. So every again, everybody’s story is a little bit different of what they’ve dealt with.
We just want to help the cells function at that optimal level so that the body can can basically I’m a big believer that you give the body what it needs. The body will do what it needs to do. Hmm. Wow. And so what has been the response like to this, like, and I mean, from like either clients or otherwise, as you go around and you start talking about it and you start, you know educating individuals and that’s like, what kind of response have you gotten?
People are really interested. They are tired of the guesswork, not knowing not only that. I mean, let’s think about patient versus profit. And in general, you know, people are that, you know, Oh, try this and try this and try this. Well, your body actually knows what you need and why. So people are really excited about this technology finally being here.
We can take multiple genes multiple actual genes and formulate for an individual all into one, one supplement. What about what the body needs on a daily basis instead of you? So people this is it’s cost savings. It’s simple. The simplicity of it. It’s very straightforward. And yeah, I mean, they’re excited at first.
Truly Adam. I’ve been working with this technology for 6 years now. But at first people are like, Oh, is this really possible? You know a biochemist I studied, you know, what the reaction would be with this nutrient and on this gene and it’s all come to light. And yeah, it’s thankful to the Human Genome Project and them discovering that there are actual genes and there are things that you can do, but now the technology to custom compound for an individual, that’s, ultimately what SNP is bringing.
I like to call it hope in a jar because , it is one supplement made just for the individual. So how would an individual know if this was something that they should or they should want to try? Like, what are, are there any signs or any thoughts on that? Yeah, I mean, it’s from the person that wants to just live a healthy life, live, feeling their best.
It’s the person that is looking for answers. It’s, I mean, in my opinion, to understand and know all about a little bit about yourself and how you can optimize the, the weaker areas of things that you, you’ve inherited from your parents, parents. I mean, in my opinion, this is what we should know. We should know this about.
We all should know this about ourselves. This is the future personalization. The NIH has said that by 2030 the standard, the gold standard in medicine will be personalized. We just have it. We delightfully we have it before then. So as the more people are talking about biohacking in themselves and personalized medicine and personalized prevention , it’s just paving the way for us.
It’s becoming more, you know, a provider starts to use our product in their clinic and they’re like, I’ve been practicing nutrition for 30 years and I’ve never seen this kind of results with my patients. It’s that type of thing. I mean, it’s how could it be this simple and this effective. And it is.
So once they see that with their patients, that’s when it’s like these aha moments. Wow. It truly is individualized for for just one person. Amazing. Kim, first off, this has been great having you on the show today. And for my audience that wants to follow up and learn more, connect with you and your team.
How do they do that? Absolutely. The website is www dot snip. Nutrition. com. You can always send a message to support at snipnutrition. com. We like to pride ourselves on our customer service, but yeah, go look, learn educate yourself. If you’ve already done genetic testing somewhere else, we have the ability to literally take that data and turn it into a customized solution just for the individual.
Fantastic. If everybody listening, just so you know what we will definitely put the links to the website in the show notes. So you can just click on it and head right on over. And speaking of the audience, if this is your first time with Mission Matters, and you haven’t done it yet, hit that subscribe or follow button.
This is a daily show each and every day. We’re bringing you new content. New guests, new ideas, and hopefully new inspiration to help you along the way on your journey as well. So again, hit that subscribe or follow button and Kim, it’s been a lot of fun. Thanks again so much for coming on the show. Thank you so much, Adam.