“It’s positive..” Wow, you may get the sensation of amazing feeling of being a dad when you hear those words from your wife. But you may not be able to avoid bad thought coming into your mind, particularly about your baby’s health in the upcoming time. To make sure that your baby is in the best condition of health, you must pay full attention on the food and nutrition that your wife consumes. In fact, nutrition consumption will influence your baby growth, not only when it has not been unborn, but also to the next generation.
Talk about Epigenetic
The word Epigenetic may not sound familiar to you. Talking about generations cannot be separated from genetic things. Epigenetic is the word used to describe the changing process of characteristics that is genetically given caused by DNA modification process (the molecule that contains the genetic information of a person) without involving the changing of the DNA order.
One of the things than cause this changing is the DNA mutilation process, which means the DNA chemical modification process. The DNA mutilation process can be influenced by some nutrition consumption which is involved in the carbon compound metabolism, such as vitamin B (folate, vitamin B12, choline, and vitamin B6) and also some types of amino acid (methionine, serine, glycine and betaine). This modification process can change the characteristics or features of a person, and this change can be heritage for the next generation.
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