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“epigenetic marks are the remote control not only to your health and longevity but also to how you pass your genes on to future…

— David Perlmutter

“our cells contain an epigenome that tells genes to switch on or off.”

— Deborah Kesten

“genes might control the possibilities, but epigenetics determines our destiny.”

— A.G. Riddle

“This exciting new field of epigenetics--meaning literally "around" the gene--allows us to see how environmental factors alter our gene expression in a specific place…

— Woodson Merrell

“Trauma and stress experienced in difficult situations can be passed on genetically as well. The gene itself does not alter, but the imprint left…

— Shreya Sen-Handley

“how you eat and live actually gets passed down to at least one successive generation through this epigenetic process.”

— Alisa Vitti

“Epigenetics, Waddington wrote, concerns "the interaction of genes with their environment (...) that brings their phenotype into being.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“As emphasized in the last chapter, epigenetic changes can be multi-generational.8 Dogma was that all the epigenetic marks (i.e., changes in the DNA or…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which…

— Robert Winston

“kids whose brains have undergone epigenetic changes because of early adversity have an inflammation-pro-mot- drip of fight-or-flight hormones turned on high every day—and there…

— Donna Jackson Nakazawa

“The genes for depression cause peoples' brains to overreact to stress.”

— Burgess,, Wes

The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn…

— Sandra Steingraber