Power over Genetics: You CAN Change Your Genes
Are genes controllable? Haven't we been told that the genetic hand we're dealt from our mothers and fathers is "cut in stone"? It turns out that the "stone" is more like flexible plastic!In a recent US News magazine, the cover story was "Epigenetics: How you can change your genes". Epigenetics means "above genetics" and deals with the control of gene activity and expression that does not involve alterations to the genetic code but still gets passed down to at least one successive generation.
Imagine you are home, you've paid your electric bill but all the lights are out. Let's further imagine that you don't know that lights can be turned on so you assume there is no light available. Someone comes along and shows you that you have control of switching on and off lights as needed. It's the same in your body. Genes "express" themselves in different ways depending on whether they are turned on or off.
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