Nutrition and Epigenetics in Human Health

Epigenetics and Human Health

Epigenetics and Nutrition

Epigenetics refers to the study of heritable changes in gene expression that do not depend on the DNA sequence itself. Those changes alter the phenotype without any change in the genotype and can be influenced by several factors. The environment, the way of living, habits, age, parental nutritional state during gestation and others are amongst the major factors influencing chromatin remodeling....

Nutrition and Epigenetics

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), diabetes, obesity and cancer are polygenic in nature and their prevalences and mortality vary depending upon genetic susceptibility and the presence of phenotype risk factors. The heritability of variant phenotypes may depend on the intake of proinflammatory or anti-inflammatory nutrients, for their expression as phenotypes or their suppression. Genes are importa...

Nutrition, Epigenetics, and Diseases

Increasing epidemiological evidence suggests that maternal nutrition and environmental exposure early in development play an important role in susceptibility to disease in later life. In addition, these disease outcomes seem to pass through subsequent generations. Epigenetic modifications provide a potential link between the nutrition status during critical periods in development and changes in...

Epigenetics: A New Bridge between Nutrition and Health.

Nutrients can reverse or change epigenetic phenomena such as DNA methylation and histone modifications, thereby modifying the expression of critical genes associated with physiologic and pathologic processes, including embryonic development, aging, and carcinogenesis. It appears that nutrients and bioactive food components can influence epigenetic phenomena either by directly inhibiting enzymes...