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Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes Richard C. Francis
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

In other words having proved that genes play a part it is still difficult to determine to what extent they shape an individual to become an entrepreneur. The emerging science of epigenetics claims that simply changing your beliefs can influence your genetic expression and help you gain control of your health. Epigenetics recognizes that our perceptions of the environment, including our consciousness, actively control our genes. Functionally, H3K27me3 does not act as an all-on or all-off switch; instead, its placement is intricately regulated based on tissue type or environmental factors [8,9], similar to the gene-specific manner of regulation by transcription factors. "What is most exciting about these findings is that we are now starting to really understand how nutrition during the first nine months of life spent in the womb shape our long term health by influencing how the cells in our body age," said Dr Susan Ozanne, the senior author on the paper and It is well established that environmental factors interact with genes throughout life, affecting the expression of those genes and, consequently, tissue function and disease risk. Do our genes predispose our ability to put on weight or is there something more than just our genetic make-up that controls our body shape and health? In fact, your thoughts may shape your environment far more than physical matter! Lipton, the true secret to life does not lie within your DNA, but rather within the mechanisms of your cell membrane. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” -Tony Robbins. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers have for the first Studies conducted in animals have shown that the environment shapes the epigenetic profile across the genome, called the epigenome, particularly in the womb. Your genes determine much about you, but environment can have a strong influence on your genes even before birth, with consequences that can last a lifetime. Research into the field of epigenetics has shown how, despite our genes possibly predisposing us to the possibility of getting diabetes and other diseases, it is actually external environmental and lifestyle choices, as well as your mindset that activates the DNA expression. Epigenetics is the cutting edge of the science of genetics. Different regulatory mechanisms come together to shape gene expression patterns; while our focus is epigenetic modifications, transcription factors binding short DNA elements have a more direct effect on transcription. Epigenetics refers to the finding that genetic effects can cross generational lines.