Professor Joe Nadeau is at the forefront of the study of epigenetics - investigating how environmental factors like diet, stress and conditions in the womb can alter a person's genetic make-up. He is an award winning scientist at the Pacific Northwest Institute in Seattle.His most recent breakthrough is the discovery that epigentic changes can be passed down from parent to child for several generations - but it's still unclear how or why that happens.
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