Detailed educational resources on the biological systems we study and the educational protocols we describe. Each system includes pathway diagrams, key genetic markers, and research-based insights.
Interventions to influence gene expression
Epigenetics refers to chemical modifications to DNA and its associated proteins that affect whether genes are switched on or off, without changing the underlying DNA sequence. The epigenome is dynamic and responds to nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, and environmental exposures. Chronic proinflammatory inputs promote epigenetic conditions that keep inflammatory genes switched on. Conversely, anti-inflammatory inputs promote epigenetic silencing of proinflammatory genes and activation of resilience-promoting genes. This is published molecular biology, not theoretical.