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That's quite a claim. Do you have some sources for that?

• belorn 5y ago
  My guess is that I read it in a book by Robert Sapolsky titled Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, but I won't reread the book just to give you the exact page number. It could also be one of the youtube talks by him where he go through epigenetics. What I will do is a simple web search: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18197594/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18197594/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463748/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463748/ To quote the later study: "Given that risk for diabetes and its complications is linked to both genetic and environmental factors, it is not surprising that there are now more than 1,000 articles that address the intersection of diabetes and epigenetics or epigenomics" The case study that I remember was studies done on Indigenous populations when they got introduced to a west-style diet by being integrated into west society. The following generations had higher rate of type 2 diabetes compared to children of existing demographics. There has also been a plentora of studies done on children born after the dutch hunger winter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_inheritance#In_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...), where one of the finding was increased risk of glucose intolerance in adulthood.