Guest guest Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1951968,00.html I've extracted this paragraphs, More recently, however, researchers have begun to realize that epigenetics could also help explain certain scientific mysteries that traditional genetics never could: for instance, why one member of a pair of identical twins can develop bipolar disorder or asthma even though the other is fine. Or why autism strikes boys four times as often as girls. Or why extreme changes in diet over a short period in Norrbotten could lead to extreme changes in longevity. In these cases, the genes may be the same, but their patterns of expression have clearly been tweaked Biologists offer this analogy as an explanation: if the genome is the hardware, then the epigenome is the software. " I can load Windows, if I want, on my Mac, " says ph Ecker, a Salk Institute biologist and leading epigenetic scientist. " You're going to have the same chip in there, the same genome, but different software. And the outcome is a different cell type. " This article basically explains that our ENVIRONMENT affect our GENES's expression, and this is an ongoing process. How many doctors are saying, our children have some genetic vulnerabilities but IF THE WRONG COMBINATION of events, this would not happen. In my opinion a big part of our ENVIRONMENT is the current MEDICAL / PEDIATRIC / GYNECOLOGICAL /DENTIST practices, and I am not even talking about vaccines (this is just one small part of the problem), antibiotics, ignorance, short vision (pediatricians do not know enough of nutrition or the immune system, for me it is like to give a GUN (vaccines) to a child, is that much dangerous...etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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