Note: This begins to touch on something I've been saying for years: It's all important. Our genes are malleable and can express themselves in many different ways according to the input that they are given. Input is everything from the emotional milieu in which we live to small decisions we make about life to the quality of the food and supplements that we consume. A mother rat withholds nurturing licks from its pup and elicits a brain change that impairs the pup's response to stress as an adult, researchers in Canada found. A pregnant woman's dietary deficits increase her offspring's risk of diabetes, stroke and heart disease later in life, researchers in England have shown.
'Epigenetics' Means What We Eat, How We Live And Love, Alters How Our Genes Behave
