Quote by Jared Diamond

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than…

— Bruce Lipton

Environment, not genes, plays starring role in human immune variation.

— Anonymous

“Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth. We often share especially close intimacies with the microbial world. In fact, only…

— Brenda Wilmoth Lerner

“Genes determine our risk for a disease, but our lifestyle and environment can either trigger or suppress those risks.”

— John J. Ratey

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

— Mark Sisson

“Sixty years on, we know that HGT is one of the most profound aspects of bacterial life. It allows bacteria to evolve at blistering…

— Ed Yong

“The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.”

— Sandor Ellix Katz

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

— Daniel Nathans

“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside, in the…

— A.G. Riddle

“Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee