"How Experiences Change Markers in Our DNA"
It’s a scientific fact: experiences change markers on the DNA of traumatized people, and these markers can be passed to future generations. Journalist Betsy Robinson talks to Rachel Yehuda, PhD, director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and a leading researching in the genetic legacy of trauma. “I think that people are resonating with the findings,” she continues, “People do feel that somehow the experiences from their parents and generations past are meaningful in some way. Epigenetics gives us a language, a vocabulary to begin to talk about these kinds of phenomena.” Learn more.