Early trauma affects metabolism for generations – AlKhaleej Today

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People who experience traumatic experiences in their childhood often suffer long-term consequences that affect their mental and physical health. In addition, their children and grandchildren can also be affected. In this special form of inheritance, sperm and egg cells do not pass on information to the offspring via their DNA sequence, as does classic genetic inheritance, but rather via biological factors that involve the epigenome, which regulates genome activit…

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