Oh boy, I can’t wait for this clash of intellectual titans…
The Truth About Bodybuilding Genetics
Genetics do matter. But how much?
Est. reading time: 12 minutes
Oh boy, I can’t wait for this clash of intellectual titans…
Did you and Aragorn by any chance go to school together?
You sharked me man. You played stuupid for 10 years the pulled the rug out from under me with a video made for someone that works in a cube farm and has never given so much as a passing thought to what they shove down their food pipe.
Well played sir.
Watching you get roasted repeatedly isn’t nightmare inducing, sorry.
Please, give us your learned ignorance opinions. It brings such moments of clarity.
Another non-response.
Another non-answer to the topic.
To what? Epigenetics doesn’t undo the long analysis in that link I sent to you. Start by going through the wealth of information.
I’m actually impressed that you realized I was insulting you.
“learned ignorance opinions” what the fuck does that even mean…?
So diet and exercise have little to do with obesity? The genetic question has been turned on it’s head by Epigenetics. It was once thought that genetics controlled your destiny. But the most recent studies negate that old data. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/epigenetic-influences-and-disease-895 Nutrition & the Epigenome Genetics and epigenetics of obesity - PMC Feast on this.
Exactly!
I don’t understand why you’re wasting your time on the internet when you could be on a sidewalk somewhere with a cardboard sign, sharing all of your brilliant ideas with whoever passes by. Then someday you could invest in a bullhorn and a more durable sign, set up shop in a park or on a busy corner and really get the message out. Get some pamphlets printed up too. The sky’s the limit.
You’re really only reaching a dozen people tops by posting troll threads in the off-topic section of a meathead website.
So all the studies involving Epigenetics is a waste of time?
Exactly!
There he is.
So all the studies involving Epigenetics is a waste of time?
No I’m saying everything you personally do online is a waste of time.
Go hit the streets man. Make a difference in the world. Think of how many people are out there just in your neighborhood who are listening to their doctors at this very moment.
So diet and exercise have little to do with obesity? The genetic question has been turned on it’s head by Epigenetics. It was once thought that genetics controlled your destiny. But the most recent studies negate that old data. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/epigenetic-influences-and-disease-895 Nutrition & the Epigenome Genetics and epigenetics of obesity - PMC Feast on this
Surely if epigenetics is so magical a long-term study demonstrating that exercise and diet aren’t completely useless in fighting obesity would have been produced by now?
The reality is changing environment is all but impossible. Just look everywhere you go you are surrounded by junk food
Some people don’t even respond to exercise
Genetics do matter. But how much?
Est. reading time: 12 minutes
@Zeppelin795 read this
Epigenetics Has Become Dangerously Fashionable
That’s right, the most compelling evidence for transgenerational epigenetics is in rodents, not humans. We are fans of animal research, but as Pinker noted, the strengths of it (fast reproductive cycles allowing for the study of numerous generations in a short window of time) may also curtail its applicability to humans in this particular case. Additionally, scientists can randomly manipulate a rodent pup’s exposure to different parenting/rearing strategies. But doing this with human babies would never fly with a university ethics committee.
When you can’t do experiments, you have to be very careful about something called confounding. Confounding is a pernicious problem that can make one thing look like it’s causing something else when, in actuality, it’s not. Epigenetics research, like all scientific areas, has to guard closely against confounding. Experiments deal nicely with this problem. Associational studies in humans, though, are much more vulnerable to it.
While working on this article, Pinker reminded us of another key point. When social scientists say “environment” they mean something very different than when biologists say “environment.” To a geneticist, environment is anything that isn’t DNA (in essence, the cellular environment of DNA). To a social scientist, though, the environment captures everything from the way your parents raised you to the international political climate. The cellular environment might be relevant for understanding environmental regulation of gene expression, but this does not necessarily mean that social environments (like neighborhoods) have a similar impact. More time and research is needed to unpack the latter possibility.
“Many of our expert epigenetics research colleagues are deeply embarrassed by the warm, uncritical response their work has attracted from the social sciences,” say Terrie Moffitt, a distinguished clinical psychologist at Duke University, and Amber Beckley, a criminologist also at Duke. “A biologist attendee at a July 2014 Washington, DC workshop on the social and behavioral implications of epigenetics gasped, ‘The biologists there were horrified at the thought . . . we really don’t understand the basic biology well enough yet to do this!’” (For additional epigenetics caution from other experts, see here).