In 2008, when Doctor Randy Jirtle and his team at Duke University found out that a baby mouse born from fat, yellow short living agouti mouse was a lean brown mouse, people started to realize that what parents ate affects the babies. The mother agouti mouse was fed with greens and helpful chemicals that shut down the agouti gene and it worked on the baby mouse. This led to the term epigenetics where the genes are controlled and expressed, modified rather than alter the existing genetic code. Grandparents and parents diets, workout and stress levels have significant consequences on the offspring, but genes can be dampened or quieted by eating healthy food, exercise and every brain activity. They do not stay the same throughout the entire life.
