Environmental signals, influenced by one's internal thoughts and emotions, determine gene expression rather than genes alone determining disease.

“The latest research on genes says genes don't create disease. It's the environment that signals the gene that creates disease.”

A person's perception of their environment and their habitual thoughts exert a more significant influence on gene expression than the environment itself.

“your perception of the environment affects your body more than the environment itself.”

A person's environment, including their mindset, can influence how their genes are expressed and impact their overall health and healing outcomes.

“there's also a whole field of epigenetics and those that's how your environment in part influences your genetic expression and so yes if you're a little new Agy and you're happy and you're optimistic and you're going into things with a great attitude you do have better genetics”

Emotions and environment can influence gene expression, enabling people to shift from a state of trauma to one of trust.

“The reality that really honestly relates to our epiggenome is we're either wired for trauma or we're wired for trust.”

While genetic markers like the apoe4 allele increase susceptibility to disease, environmental and lifestyle factors determine whether these genetic risks are expressed.

“you might carry uh think of your genes like the keys on a grand piano and you might have within your Gene the keys required to play the song Alzheimer's disease right but if you live and eat in a certain way and we don't have all the details in terms of like how this might you know the the exact roa”

Traumatic experiences cause chemical changes in DNA that can affect gene expression for generations.

“when a trauma happens it changes us literally it causes a chemical change in our DNA and this changes the way our our genes function sometimes for generations”

Maternal diet and environmental factors during pregnancy and breastfeeding can influence a child's preferences and biological predispositions through epigenetic mechanisms.

“It is true that epigenetics, both in breastfeeding and in pregnancy itself, has a huge impact. In fact, I would say that I think that having read epigenetic studies with ultra-processed foods, why do mothers who eat more ultra-processed foods pass on an epigenetic preference to their babies ?”