Epigenetic Video Analysis

Epigenetics is the study of how DNA can be changed during a person’s life or for their upcoming generation. This can be altered by dietary changes, puberty, and pregnancy. In the video that I saw about this experiment I was completely in awe of how the two very similar DNAs of identical twins could change during their life span. The video had conducted an experiment on 40 pairs of twins but gave us examples of two separate pairs of twins, one was 6-year-old boys and the other was 66-year-old women. The reason way these younger twins had their DNA so common because they have the same exact same life style and have not reached puberty yet. The older twins have already reached puberty and developed different paths; they are also living different

They mainly spoke about the many studies of the mice and their alterations. I also understood that cancer may be introduced or reduced with the life style you life. But as I searched further into these life changing epidemic studies I discovered more of the things that can decrease many life spans. We all know that drugs people tend to abuse of such as cocaine can generate epigenetic changes in certain parts of the brain. Some thing most of those drug abusers do not know is that even if you one day decide to quit this addiction a lot of these changes can stay in your body long after the drug has been cleaned from the body. Studies have suggested that some of the long-term effects of drug abuse and addiction can permanently mess with the epigenomes of a person by developing defects in the body; perhaps a stroke because of that drug. Not all drugs are a problem they can cause good changes like when you are trying to treat mental illnesses, this made me feel a lot better because I am currently fighting depression and anxiety and am being treated with medicine and the fact that I found out the this can be reversed is great news and I kept thinking that taking that medication would only make me feel better