An intro to epigenetics

0:00 The genetic material that you come from was inside your mother, inside your grandmother. For women, because we are born with all the eggs that we will ever have. I always love how I have to like motion. Those are your eggs, ladies. Which means that the genetic material that you come from was inside your grandmother when she was carrying your mother. And the genetic material, then we can trace it back on down the line. And for men, it's still a real thing because you create sperm over the course of your lifetime. It's not always what was happening ancestrally, although that will get passed down through the cells, but it'll also be most potently what was happening around the world for your father at the time of your conception.

0:41 And so we invite forward our ancestral trauma through epigenetics. And so when we can make sense of that, we can go back in time and figure out, "Okay, well what kinds of things would we have downloaded from our parents?" You may not have started this, but it is now your story. And so you get to carry it forward, and that's your job to do your work, to figure out what lurks beneath the surface, and to make sense of that so that you get the best possible shot, and so do your children.