Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-210416 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-210416. The excerpt begins at 10:48 and runs for 1 minute 37 seconds.

And the phenotype in an organism is its appearance. So I saw that an account-- and the word "environmental enrichment," which I know you'll bring out in the context of altering or rather adapting to the changes in epigenetics. The epigenetics, themselves, may account for a significant fraction of what they term the missing heritability as DNA mutations only explained a minority of the expected heritable fraction. And they said that this discrepancy is known as the missing heritability. So when you describe epigenetics for our listeners, some of which may not be as science-based, if you could describe the basic outlines of epigenetics and how, whether it's DNA changes in methylation or the histones that the genes wrap around or this non-coding RNA that get altered and how the changes to those bring about profound changes in genetic information and what gets turned on and what gets turned off and how this epigenetic change really alters the structure of our consciousness, I think, in a lot of ways, or conversely, our consciousness can alter the structure of our epigenetics.