Stress Genes
Post Traumatic Stress is a multigenomic condition, meaning there are many genes implicated in its emergence.
The Founder of More Than Normal has been promoting this for his entire career.
A growing pool of clinical evidence is demonstrating more gene sequences are involved in its intergenerational transmission than initially thought. That evidence is 'discovering' that changes and stressors in the environment are affecting the integrity and timing of when and under what conditions these gene segments are expressed. This becomes not just a question of "when" these genes are activated, but "If".
If parents (and parents-to-be) wish to minimise the negative impacts of trauma on their children they need to understand the significant and substantial influence of enviromental stressors on the human genome.
While this is a huge task, requiring decades of research, laboratory expertise and knowledge of interpretation of epigenetics and gene sequencing, there is an easier way to start to make a positive difference....
Start with what you put in and on your body, over-exposure to sunlight and radiation, lack of sleep, and exercise.
Yes, you've heard it all before, all too often.... Diet, sleep and exercise. But when you examine the impacts on genetics, you will understand. Oxidative stress is a direct byproduct of poor lifestyle choices. Oxidative stress is centrally implicated in over 280 human diseases from ADHD to Zygomycosis.
But there is a cost-effective, readily accessible management solution previously reserved only for the rich and famous.
More about oxidative stress here.
Oxidative stress breaks down the integrity of molecular bonds holding protein molecules together and depletes structural integrity of amino acid pairs in DNA... as this illustration shows.