IDENTICAL TWINS: PINPOINTING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON THE EPIGENOME
1. The epigenome of identical twins is effected greatly by the environment they are brought-up in. Thus, the physically expressed traits found in twins are near-completetly correlated to their environment.2. Diet, stress, and physical activity are a couple of environmental factors found in the raising of children.
3. An imprinted gene is a gene that's epigenome was not fully cleaned and as a result, the child holds some of the traits from their parents in their epigenome.
YOUR ENVIRONMENT, YOUR EPIGENOME
1. My environment is an athletic and academically rich environment with a healthy diet and a good home environment so I would imagine that my epigenome is being positively affected.
LICK YOUR RATS
1. A high-nuturing rat mother has a great affect on her kids. The pup would have an easy time relaxing after stress and would have little anxiety.
2. Licking helps activate a rat pup's GR gene.
3. The GR gene and cortisol helps with relaxation by doing the following;
When the cortisol is released by the brain, the GR gene helps stabilize the cortisol allowing for it to be used affectively. The more GR, the more relaxed the rat can become.
4. I believe that relating this to humans is easy. The more love shown by a mother, the more the child will relax and the calmer the child would be.
NUTRITION & THE EPIGENOME
1. The food eaten by child early on would possibly effect the chemical production in a childs brain depending on the extremeness of the food they eat.
2. The diet of a parent strongly effects the epigenome of children. Because the epigenome is not fully wiped when a child is born, a lot of the epigenetic features are saved. Thus, the child keeps some of the environmental effects are kept, including diet.
EPIGENETICS & THE HUMAN BRAIN
1. Dietary methyl can effect gene expression by having changes in how some genes work in some people.
2. Toxins affect gene expression by sometimes turning off and on different genes making a person greatly effected by these toxins.
