Epigenetics explained

By Janine Schott
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Published: March 17, 2011
Words: 6,191 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458083401

Short description

Our experiences affect our emotions, bodies and behaviour and trigger genetic switches, which then affect our children. The fascinating relatively new science, Epigenetics, explains how our genetic information is modified. (This book contains just the Epigenetics chapter from The Epigenetics of Diet.)

Extended description

Epigenetics is the study of the environment causing genes to be switched on or off and this effect being inherited in subsequent generations. Existing research has investigated stressful events, the response to that stress and its heritability. This includes the stress that results from insufficient food, different types of foods, too much food and nutritionally poor foods. The evidence available comes from the invention of a multitude of diseases that modern humans have developed since the introduction of agriculture.

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medicine, food, health, diet, stress, dna, genetics, trauma, genes, epigenetics

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