Remember the joke: Eat everything you want.... and if anybody asks, eat them too..
Well, we may think what goes down the throat is for enjoyment, self-fulfillment or appeasing the body. Until a few decades ago, that might have been true. Researchers at world’s finest such as Duke’s University have started human testing on epigenetics. Without making it a rough-ride chemistry class, the term simply means our lifestyles and surrounding changes the way our genes are expressed.
Inheritance is weird. Think of genes as a computer. New these genes have tags that affect how genes function...their software, controlling how they are expressed. Basically what and how to eat, drink, smoke, excise, treat stress gets altered by the genes. All these change our life expectancy (in 5-mins you can now your life expectancy here https://apps.bluezones.com/en/vitality/background ).
It means how you treat your body does not end with you, at least in light of the primal role recreation. Today, amazingly, use of human genome maps help locate chromosomal location of genes; identification of causes of gene expressions and mostly importantly use epigenetics to deflect how genes develop. With such knowledge, researchers would soon be able to use epigenetics to understand and cure obesity (energy intake vs expenditure imbalance) diabetes I and II, some cancers, and hypertension among others.
Ever wondered why these most of these health conditions are hereditary? They are gene-based... and yet, environment and types of food supported how the tags of genes developed. Through epigenetics therefore, drugs help issue instructions on cells to behave human by guiding such tags to desired directions.
Make right choices today; plenty of veges and fruits, lesser visits to fast foods, embrace more exercise and fewer grains and red meat. Go slow on wine and alcohol too. It will help keep your genes ‘natural’ and not influenced to embrace such health complications.
Have a nice appetite with good healthy choices!
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