MIKE MCRAE – Your Environment Could Be Changing Your IQ on a Genetic Level, Study Finds

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By ensuring the lower and underclasss get a higher quality of life, people can become more productive, brighter, and happier, which can increase economic output, reduce crime, drink, drug abuse, and save society money in the long run.Poverty can set to a viscous circle which can run on for generations due to epigenetics, also known as gene expression.These two mice below are genetic clones, but the vitamins and food they were given was different. Our first few years of life play a crucial role in our brain's wiring. New research suggests our experiences might also be influencing changes in our neurons at a genetic level.A 2018 study has discovered that when mice pups are neglected by their mother, it appears to trigger 'jumping' genes in their brain cells. This hints at similar processes

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