Negative Effects of Plastic Additive Blocked by Nutrient Supplements
By Richard Merritt, DukeMed News
30 July 2007: DURHAM, N.C. - Experiments in animals have provided additional and tantalizing evidence that what a pregnant mother eats can make her offspring more susceptible to disease later in life.
This susceptibility is the result of a process that alters how a gene is expressed without actually changing or mutating the gene itself. Appreciation of this phenomenon has spawned a new avenue of genetic research know as epigenetics, a name which refers to changes happening over and above the gene sequence without altering its code.
