In our traditional understanding of disease, we inherit genes that predispose us to certain health outcomes. It's a sort of Calvinistic paradigm that our health is ultimately in the hands of some predetermined biological fate. Sure, eating healthy and exercising may delay or decrease the outcome, but if you have that gene, you're fighting against nature.
The expanding science of epigenetics is shattering the conventional wisdom of genetic fate. It turns out that the genes in our DNA are like...
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