Epigenetics8 min read

Transgenerational Epigenetics: How Your Ancestors' Health Affects Yours

The health choices of your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents left epigenetic marks on your DNA. Learn what transgenerational epigenetics means for your wellness.

You inherited more than your eye color from your parents. You also inherited epigenetic patterns — chemical modifications to your DNA and histones — that were shaped by the experiences, diet, stress, and environment of your parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents.

This is transgenerational epigenetics: the transmission of epigenetic information across generations. Research has shown that events like famine, chronic stress, toxin exposure, and nutritional deficiencies in one generation can influence gene expression in the next — sometimes for three or more generations.

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