Epigenetic echoes of your mother's diet | Andrew Prentice | TEDxLSHTM
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Sperm meets egg. Now what? Epigeneticist Andrew Prentice searches for the answer to this question every day. In this talk he takes the emerging science of epigenetics and simplifies this seemingly complex subject by explaining the fundamental role that a mother’s diet at conception can have on her child’s long term health outcomes and how this knowledge could lead to ground-breaking interventions to improve the most vulnerable’s health. Find out if you actually are what your mother ate.
Andrew Prentice founded the MRC International Nutrition Group at LSHTM in 1999. Born in Uganda, he studied in East Africa and the UK obtaining a BSc in Biochemistry followed by a PhD in Nutrition from Darwin College, Cambridge. He worked in the MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit’s rural field station in Keneba, The Gambia from 1978-83. In 1983 he returned to the MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge to become Head of Human Energy Metabolism where he specialised in studying the regulation of energy balance with a particular focus on obesity. In 1998 he became scientific director of the MRC Keneba fieldstation and of the Nutrition Programme for MRC The Gambia Unit, a role he still maintains.
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This is fascinating.
The more human knowledge expands the more we see the connection between cause and effect, things we used to think happened by chance.
These researchers are the true heroes
This deserves more views! Fascinating!
The most insightful have heard on Epigenetic
The trauma of food scarcity and/or poverty comes to mind too. While nutrition is important, the endocrine system varies greatly dependant on feeling secure.
It's like the universe works at a subatomic level all the time.
The ancients knew a pregnant woman needed to cared for and not aggravated and needed good nutrition. But we are smarter sending them to work and after giving birth, back to work, formula and day care. No wonder our families and children are such a mess. We are civilized.
@Ismael barrera espero toques madera cuando hables con esa soberbia después de haber escuchado una charla de primer nivel si es que la terminaste.
It depends on the kind of work
I'm not sure what history books ur reading. That's the opposite of most of history
Fascinating. You (and your family) are what you eat. Whole food plant based is the way to go
The Book of Daniel in the Old Testament confirms your Hypothesis: Daniel recorded it, and his testimony is fascinating.
Carnivore! Cholesterol or brain starvation. You choose!
Absolutely fascinating
Difficult but amazing topic
Fantastic talk!
Excellent
Bravo!
He uses "birth", "conception", "conceiving" interchangeably. It must be stressed that it's about date of conception of the fetus, not date of birth. It also corresponds quite well with Malcolm Gladwell's observation on privilege of people born during first months of the year (most people who excel at things are born within those months, especially Feb-Mar).
So, for a baby that succeeds physically and mentally, try to have it conceived in late May, people. Availability of nutrient-dense fresh diet + abundant vit. D during the first most crucial months of life + birth date at the verge of February & March.
This works only for the northern hemisphere though.
These Epigeneticist ,should also explore Ayurveda where right diets are recommended for conceiving mothers for different seasons .
Rajesh Barya I've never heard of that, it sounds fascinating!
Hiii,
Any book on Ayurvedic diet you recommend for pregnant women
Could you recommend specific materials/books/videos on that topic?
That's amazing, I wouldn't mind reading it too. Is it just about eating the way our ancestors did? More carnivorous and with intermittent fasting in winter... maybe more grazing of fruits veggies and grains with our meat in the summer?
Since the epigenetics carried over into the 20's, it stands to reason the population never received enough of the methylation nutrients, including sulfur, to allow the body to correct the methylation patterns (since that has been shown to work elsewhere)
So good! Link for video mentioned in beginning?
is anyone else completely baffled by the data presentations?! can someone explain?!
does anyone know where i can find the exact mice study he uses, like the journal
When he said a piece of bach I thought he meant a tree lol
Wow
This guy sounds exactly like Neil Gaiman.
I’m pretty sure I was born with the jazz version of Bach lol
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Si les 2 ratons sont frères de portée, la mère mange la même chose povr les 2, por tovte la portée, il y a vne errevr de tradction c'est l'expression dv gène qvi est différent
Epigenetics has been on my mind for so long and especially now that I carry the gene and expression for Polycystic kidney disease. My mom had a 50% chance of passing it on to her children (my sister and I) and I am the unlucky one to have it. Now, that I am pregnant and have been eating a diet without any animal protein for a couple years and low sodium diet I wonder how that will effect my baby and future kids. Will the continue to express this gene? Can we turn off the gene for my future generations. I hope that the by eliminating or lowering animal proteins does just that. My grandma had it and a couple of my moms sisters and now my cousins have it and bunch of other family members who are failing to acknowledge that they have it too. There’s a reason for this. Why does this particular organ want to act this way? What’s triggering it?
It is caused by a selenium deficiency. Dr. Wallach discovered this fact with tissue slides back in the late 60’s when he worked for the cystic fibrosis research facility doing research on monkeys. Make sure your diet gets plenty of Selenium. I like Dr. Wallach’s ultimate selenium capsules on amazon.
Not an emerging science at all ..... Plenty of cultures treat pregnancy, childbirth and after .... Very very differently than western cultures.
You are wrong sir. All eight cells are not identical. Do you know the single cell principle? Have you heard of mosaicism? Have you analyzed the genomes of over 100,000+ aborted and miscarried fetuses? I have.
I'd love to read more on the said topic. Any interesting journal articles you can recommend me?
Want to define “analyzing a genome”? Anyone w biological research context knows how nondescript that is and could be “performed” by an undergrad....
And who are you? Your opinion on the topic is worthless unless you're a professional.