Memories Of Your Ancestors Can Be Hidden In Your DNA

Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com – Is it possible that your ancestors are trying to tell you something of vital importance or maybe they just want to share with you some of their life experiences? Could their memories be shaping your personality?

Scientists have determined that all kinds of memories, good as well as bad, can be hidden in your DNA.

Your ancestors’ experiences can actually change your personality bequeathing anxiety or resilience by altering the epigenetic expressions of genes in the brain.

It has long been assumed that memories and learned experiences built up during a lifetime must be passed on by teaching later generations or through personal experience.

However, scientists have discovered that it is possible for some information to be inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in DNA.

Memories of your ancestors

Researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, found that living beings can pass on learned information about traumatic or stressful experiences. The results may help to explain why people suffer from seemingly irrational phobias – it may be based on the inherited experiences of their ancestors.

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So a fear of spiders may in fact be an inherited defense mechanism laid down in a family’s genes by an ancestors’ frightening encounter with an arachnid.

“From a translational perspective, our results allow us to appreciate how the experiences of a parent, before even conceiving offspring, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations.

“Such a phenomenon may contribute to the etiology and potential intergenerational transmission of risk for neuropsychiatric disorders such as phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder,” Dr Brian Dias, from the department of psychiatry at Emory University said.

Written by – Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com

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