“…The University of Washington epidemiologist Dr Stephen Bezruchka has been writing and speaking for nearly two decades on the real cause of illness and poor health.
As he repeatedly points out, lifestyle factors (including smoking) only account for ten percent of the causation of illness.
According to Bezruchka, the single most important determinant of adult health status and life expectancy is your mother’s income and social status during pregnancy … and the first three years of life.
Although more than fifty years of epidemiological studies bear this out … it is only in the last decade scientists could explain why this is –
– thanks to the new science of epigenetics.
While the early Freudians used to make similar claims about unfavorable “psychological†influences on infants and young children …
… it is now clear the effect is biological rather than psychological.
That it relates to “epigenetics†–
- a term referring to changes in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than the underlying DNA sequence…” (cont..)
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