Epigenetics is a new branch of science that studies how genes are controlled by influences from outside the cell. Scientists are discovering more details about how DNA functions and precisely what role our genes play in the function and structure of our bodies. New findings are demonstrating how the protein sheath surrounding our DNA can be “unwrapped”, and different genes triggered or turned off, by influences ranging from emotional states to environmental conditions.

This new research flies in the face of our previous understanding of genetics as a predetermined blueprint for our health and physical condition over which we had no control. Far from the media proclaimed fatalism of a “gene for” everything from dyslexia to cancer, leading edge scientists are discovering that genes are more potential energy than directive reality.

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