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| Top doc on how behavior can impact genetics: ‘Our destiny is not fixed' |
| 2025-09-11 |
| [NYP] Dr. Bob Lahita, who ran New Jersey's top hospitals and ambulance services, spoke to The Post's Cindy Adams about how environmental factors could change our genes. DOCTORING IN THE GENES Dr. Bob Lahita ran New Jersey’s top hospitals and ambulance services, operated a triage unit on the ground in NJ on 9/11, authored a library of medical volumes, cared for my late husband and I know him half a century. His new book’s Â"Destiny, the New Genetics, and Your Future." Lahita: "Popes to presidents want to know about sickness and incapacity. ’Epigenetics,’ a collection of light switches, means genes are fingers. Parental wiring. A pregnant mother’s diet can affect a child’s health. Cigarettes, pollution, stress, nutrition, toxins affect subsequent generations. Forget genes but changed behavior can influence the onset and course of disease. Our destiny is not fixed. "A clinician and researcher, I know health can influence future generations. It can explain autoimmunity diseases like Âdepression, cancers. Grandma’s stress, what she ate or smoked can influence her grandchildren. Data is explaining issues of legitimate sources to support understanding of human behavior — and mental diseases including possibly gender dysphoria. Even autism could possibly be the result of an environment effect. "Artificial intelligence can now detect epigenetic markers on DNA that alter gene expression. Using AI to search for epigenetic markers and add or subtract them from future genomes will likely be possible." Related: Epigenetic 04/20/2024 Researchers find 'pronounced' biological benefits in women after giving birth Epigenetic 10/05/2023 One in 20 Americans treated their Covid with unfounded drugs - and certain news sites may have had something to do with it, survey finds Epigenetic 12/16/2021 Billionaire launches new start-up he hopes will REVERSE the ageing process: Plans to develop new therapies to halt the decline of human cells |
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