Things like toxins, stress, and poor nutrition can "express" these mutations, kinda like flipping on the cancer switch in your body.
The discovery of Epigenetics gives us great hope, because it means you can turn it around! Your genes aren't all hard-wired. What we do positively or negatively affects the way our genes express themselves.
That means there may be ways to turn off that same cancer switch, based on lifestyle or nutritional modifications.
How we live our life matters.
But there's more...
The research found that people who were exposed to extreme stress, like traumas or famines, for instance, passed on those traits epigenetically to their children.
They weren't born with it, but they experienced it.
And then their children were born with it.
For example, if the parents were starving, their children had a different response to food and the tendency to gain more weight, almost like an anti-reaction to the starvation of the parents.
Fascinating.
There are actually studies on Holocaust survivors and their children and grandchildren and the changes that occurred in them because of what their grandparents experienced. It changed their gene variants and gene expressions. 😲
Here's why that matters for you...
If you're under extreme stress from toxins, for example, and you develop new SNPs (new tiny variations), those can also be passed on to your children, and their children.
When we change our diet, whether we go in a healthy direction, an unhealthy direction, we impact the future generation because we pass on the changes in those gene variants.
So here's the question -- what are YOU passing on?
