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Studying twins has long offered insight into the interplay of nature and nurture. Epigenetics is the next frontier.
There are many factors at play when it comes to your weight, and genetics is certainly one of them.
Scientists are turning their focus to an emerging field: epigenetics, the study of how people’s experience and environment affect the function of their genes.
For all the hype, fear and misinformation that surrounds the application of gene editing, there is an equally powerful technology that offers much the same in potential benefit. This technology, epigenetics, is a natural process that has gone largely unremarked by consumers.
Something that never seemed fair: Two people can eat the same diet, but one gains weight, while the other doesn’t. Why? Gynecologist and aging and weight loss resistance expert Dr. Sara Gottfried explains that two factors cause the conundrum: genetics, and how your genes talk to your environment.
Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
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It’s not uncommon to read headlines about the “epigenetic revolution” and hear claims that epigenetics overthrows our understanding of evolution. So what exactly is epigenetics? How does it work? And why does it matter?
Epigenetics is the study of biological mechanisms that will switch genes on and off, to be put as a simplified definition. What does that mean? Well, if you are new to this whole thing, we first need a quick crash course in biochemistry and genetics before learning exactly what is epigenetics.
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