Food, Success & Life For The Modern Woman

Dr. William Walsh discusses the findings of his 30+ years of research, epigenetics and the role methylation has on brain disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, cancer and heart disease. This episode of Food, Sex & Life for the Modern Woman barely touches the surface of understanding the role of epigenetics and nutrient therapy on our health, but it is a powerful one you won’t want to miss. Epigenetics is the study, in the field of genetics, of cellular and physiological phenotypic trait variations that are caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes instead of being caused by changes in the DNA sequence. Hence, epigenetic research seeks to describe dynamic alterations in the transcriptional potential of a cell. Dr. Walsh discusses how toxins, lead and drugs can cause the epigenetics in a pregnant women to go wrong, leading to disorders such as autism. After birth, environmental factors can create the same epigenetics malfunct