How epigenetics, our gut microbiome and the environment interact to change our lives

Ben Locwin | October 17, 2016 | Genetic Literacy Project

There’s been increasing media coverage recently harkening back to Lamarck and inheritance of genetic code that changes in response to the environment (epigenetics).

”Lamarckism” as it came to be called was eschewed for more than a hundred years after its initial proposition because it was thought that genes were static (this reminds me of how Einstein originally developed a model which required an expanding universe, then he added a coefficient (the ‘Cosmological Constant’) to return its behavior to a static state, which later in hindsight was found to be wrong). Now it appears Lamarck while overstating the plasticity of genes, was on to something......To Read More......

My Take - You may wish to read my 2012 article, Let Me Tell You about Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.  Based on Lemark's thinking the Soviets believed they could "force" genes to adopt the latest Soviet (Stalin's) five year plan regarding food production.  It would appear genes may be "forced" to turn off and on....the key is how?  How and with what results?  Epigenetics is going to be the most important area of health research for years to come, and who knows what directions this work will take.