Find out how your genetic makeup affects your bodybuilding development and quality muscle gain. Secrets from bodybuilding pros. Recently, epigenetics has begun to develop at a rapid pace. Scientists have discovered that cells have memory. Moreover, they remember a lot and this is another factor that distinguishes people from monkeys. It is this ability of cellular structures that epigenetics studies. We will now talk about how genes and cellular memory can be used in bodybuilding.
What is epigenetics?
The fact that this is one of the youngest trends in modern science has already been mentioned. At the same time, most people know much less about it than about genetics, which studies changes in genes and their possible consequences.
For the first time, they started talking about epigenetics as a separate science in the middle of the last century. However, they started talking about her seriously only a few decades later. This is primarily due to the fact that epigenetics seriously undermines the foundations of modern genetics.
At the turn of the century, several major discoveries were made that proved that epigenetic mechanisms not only have a serious impact on genes, but can be passed on to several generations. This made geneticists seriously think about it.
For example, in 1998, an experiment was carried out during which transgenic Drosophila lines were exposed to heat, which led to a change in the color of the eyes of experimental animals. These changes were then passed on to several generations. When studying human genes, it was found that our cellular memory is significantly superior to animals. This was confirmed in studies by Dutch scientists who studied elderly people who were born immediately after the war. The middle of the 40s was a difficult time for all peoples of the planet, and there was a terrible famine in Holland at that time. This fact was reflected in the children born during this period. They were more susceptible to various diseases. Also, epigenetics were able to understand why some people are psychologically stable and optimistic, while others are prone to constant depression. In the course of numerous studies, children who were deprived of parental care or were subjected to violence at an early age had serious mental problems later in life. It turned out that all the information was stored in the brain cells, and as a result, it could lead to various inappropriate actions.
Thanks to the study of epigenetic mechanisms, we can say that astrology affects our fate, and our own behavior, as well as our parents. Thus, we can say that we ourselves are the creators of our own destiny and can change life for the better. Epigenetics blurs the line between people and the nature around us.
All harmful substances that enter the environment during human life have a detrimental effect on the body. At the same time, it is already known that these peculiar genetic marks can be reversed when certain conditions are created. All this opens up new prospects for the creation of methods for combating various diseases.
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