Epigenetics and How Lifestyle Choices Affect Health
The external effects of the environment can influence disease, and some of these effects can even be inherited in people. What exactly does this mean? Let’s give an example: in 2002, Swedish scientists conducted an investigation where they examined whether nutrition affected the death rate from heart disease and diabetes and whether these effects were…
17 Foods That Can Prevent Genetic Tendency for Disease
It was previously thought that whatever lifestyle choices we make during our lives will affect only our own personal health, and our longevity and have no effect on our future generations. We were sure that when we had offspring, their genetic slate would be wiped clean of all of our non-beneficial lifestyle choices, and that…
[New Study] Having Healthy Children – Essential Steps For Men
We now know that the behavior of a person’s genes doesn’t just depend on their DNA sequence but also on epigenetic factors. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/AiaT-0tmf0w Unlike our DNA sequence which is largely stable within an individual, the epigenome can be dynamically altered by environmental conditions. The epigenome does not change the DNA… but…