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Epigenetics: How your decisions can influence your DNA

May 27, 2016

As we grow and develop, very specific chemical reactions activate and deactivate parts of our genome at strategic times and in specific locations, essentially turning our genes on and off. Epigenetics is the study of these processes and the factors that influence them.So why care about epigenetics if it is only in your cells? What could you possibly do to affect your DNA? It turns out that what you eat, where you live, how you react, when you sleep, if you exercise, and even how you age can affect epigenetics.

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