I almost forgot what epigenetics was. Just kidding. But I hadn’t talked about it in what feels like years and somehow this week I’ve had conversations about it several times already. Epigenetics: best analogy that I’ve heard is that genetics loads the gun but epigenetics fires it. Your genetics make you more or less likely to experience x, y, or z but your environment and inputs change the expression of your genes aka whether those possibilities happen or not. I disagree with a lot of what people have lazily or ignorantly accepted as genetics - it has become a convenient excuse not to try to change - but the advent of epigenetics into (more) common lingo has given many hope and begun to bridge the gap of understanding that even your DNA expression changes throughout your life. At every level, to varying degrees, you change. Remember:
This is Why You're Fat
This is Why You're Fat
This is Why You're Fat
I almost forgot what epigenetics was. Just kidding. But I hadn’t talked about it in what feels like years and somehow this week I’ve had conversations about it several times already. Epigenetics: best analogy that I’ve heard is that genetics loads the gun but epigenetics fires it. Your genetics make you more or less likely to experience x, y, or z but your environment and inputs change the expression of your genes aka whether those possibilities happen or not. I disagree with a lot of what people have lazily or ignorantly accepted as genetics - it has become a convenient excuse not to try to change - but the advent of epigenetics into (more) common lingo has given many hope and begun to bridge the gap of understanding that even your DNA expression changes throughout your life. At every level, to varying degrees, you change. Remember: