Eat Yourself Fitter? Diet, nutrition, and epigenetics.

Reader Della writes us on Twitter about two epigenetics tangents—diets for healthier gene expression and beliefs to hold (or “perceptions to gather,” I guess) for healthier gene expression. As it turns out, a few of us here at E3 were talking* about the epigenetics-diet connection too, so I’ll take a crack at the viewpoint in that Globe and Mail link above, which is based on this Clinical Epigenetics review by Syed Meeran and collegues at the University of Alabama. I’m sure we won’t neglect subject of epigenetics and beliefs for very long. The Globe and Mail article mentions the anti-cancer properties of broccoli, green tea, soy, grapes, tumeric, rosemary, and garlic. It also talks up the epigenetic benefits of a … Continue reading →