Dutch Famine Study Shows Children Inherit Parents' Starvation Responses Through Epigenetics

What was said

"Women who were pregnant during this time, their body changed in terms of the way they utilize energy, held on to fat. What they then saw in the children that were born to these women was the same sort of changes where their body, the way it used energy, the way it held on to fat. And then over time they would begin to evidence some physical diseases, high blood pressure, cancer, a million different other things."

LePera cited the Dutch Hunger Study as proof that bodies adapt to scarcity and pass those metabolic changes to offspring even when food becomes abundant. She argued modern weight and metabolic issues may stem from ancestral famine responses, but noted the research also showed lifestyle changes can reverse inherited patterns within one generation.