Some takeaways from Dr. Moshe’s (Epigeneticist) perspectives:
- Relating to some research conducted from natural disasters including one of the hardest natural disasters in Canadian history – the ice storm of 1998 where there were also pregnant mothers during this very difficult time.
- Moshe’s colleague Susan King followed the children of these mothers for 15 years and what happened was that as the stress increased (where objective measures of stress were present), it appears the children developed more autism, more metabolic diseases and developed more autoimmune diseases and the methylation state was mapped and it portrayed green genes becoming red as stress increased (an entire rearrangement of the genome in response to stress).
- So what was learned about DNA was that DNA is not just a sequence of letters, its just not a script, DNA is a dynamic movie, our experiences are being written in that movie which is interactive, you can remove and add an actor.
- Our DNA is really combined of two components, two layers of information: 1. One layer of information is old, evolved from millions of years of evolution, it is fixed and very hard to change 2. The other layer of information is the epigenetic layer which is open and dynamic and sets up a narrative that is interactive so even though we are determined by our genes we have a degree of freedom that can set up our life to a life of responsibility.
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