Ray Peat Audio Archive

polsci-130220-questions-and-answers — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview polsci-130220-questions-and-answers. The excerpt begins at 1:15:02 and runs for 1 minute 2 seconds.

Yeah, and there's a sort of momentum in the whole physiological pattern that can pass on from generation to generation in a way of expressing the genes. So even the definition of what a genetic defect is has changed radically. The influence of the environment on the parent can affect the methylation of the genes and that can affect their tendency to be expressed or not. So it's like a weight or an influence that can accumulate generation to generation and make it harder for a given individual to correct it but still it's only a tendency of the gene to express or not.