Below are the best articles we could find on Intergenerational Trauma and epigenetics.
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With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don't deal with, pass on to my kids? Without knowing it, could I be hurting them?
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You can get PTSD from your ancestors.
Intergenerational trauma (sometimes referred to as trans- or multigenerational trauma) is defined as trauma that gets passed down from those who directly experience an incident to subsequent generations.
For centuries, both mainstream and alternative healthcare providers have asked, “Nature or nurture?” Which is the dominant factor in human development—is it biology or is it environment? Which has the greater impact, our genes or our experiences? Now, according to the Center on the Developing...
There are a growing number of studies that support the idea that the effects of trauma can reverberate down the generations through epigenetics.
Dr. Joe Tafur and the Modern Spirit Epigenetics Project seek to understand the impact of psychedelics on intergenerational and cultural trauma.
If your DNA is the unique 'song of you', your epigenomes are the audio engineers that decide how that music will be played — which bits are loud, or edited out, whether the melody is dominant or maybe the drums are lost altogether.
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