Epigenetics and Postnatal Health page

[SerialSinner]

Interesting article at Discovery Medicine (full text):

Developmental processes, acting in part through epigenetic mechanisms, can have echoes on structure and physiology throughout the rest of life and possibly across generations. Consideration of the underlying mechanisms and their implications has led to convergence between the broader biological and evolutionary disciplines and biomedical research.

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[cillakat]

Thanks SS. Hopefully I'll be able to read it tonight and comment later. You always share the best stuff with us.

[SerialSinner]

You always share the best stuff with us.

I beg to disagree Cillakat (have you read your Journal lately? ), but thanks for the compliment

[cillakat]

I beg to disagree Cillakat (have you read your Journal lately? ), but thanks for the compliment

Well aren't you just the sweetest thing since sugar. And oh so much better for me. lol Thank goodness for good friends and MDA.

*mwah*

It was a great article btw - what else is there to say? Epigenetics. Vitamin D. Biologically appropriate diets. +1,000,000

I can't wait until someone calls Vitamin D pleiotrophic (speaking of genes). Hmm, I should see if someone has.

Voila! They're talking about VDH not D3 but still. Cool

http://www.springerlink.com/index/w6307g7664184430.pdf
" pleiotropic D-hormone calcitriol"

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retri...71491410000560
he active form of VD, 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 (1α,25-(OH) 2 D 3 ),
functions as a pleiotropic hormone that


http://www.springerlink.com/index/C830WJ53V4526T57.pdf
"These include consideration of the general biological processes undergirding vitamin D's
pleiotropic activities"

[NorthernMonkeyGirl]

Marking this thread so I can come back when my brain is functioning above bimbo level....

Thanks SS

[cillakat]

I was looking for this info today and was saddened to find the original link SS posted, defunct.

Anyway, after some hunting around, I found what he was originally referencing:

Echoes of the Past: Evolution, Development, Health and Disease - - Peter Gluckman - Discovery Medicine

It is very well worth taking some time to read.