Inheritance | Radiolab Podcast

From the Radiolab podcast: How your grandfather’s diet can affect your lifespan, heart health — and even your diabetes risk. Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. Or is it? In this episode, originally aired in 2012, we put nature and nurture on a collision course and discover how outside forces can find a way inside us, and change not just our hearts and minds, but the basic biological blueprint that we pass on to future generations. Episode Segments: 0:00 Intro 1:26 Leaving Your Lamarck 27:38 You Are What Your Grandpa Eats 40:29 What If There Was No Destiny? 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: https://bit.ly/3trXDLe 🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3I9KI53 🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: https://bit.ly/3sX8f4P 👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment! Follow Radiolab: Instagram —   / radiolab   Twitter —   / radiolab   Facebook —   / radiolab   Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/... This episode includes: discoveries by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Paul Kammerer; science writers Carl Zimmer and Sam Kean; Michael Meaney, a professor in the faculty of medicine at McGill University in Montreal; Frances Champagne from Columbia University; Lars Olov Bygren, a professor at Umeå University in Sweden; radio producer Pejk Malinovski; Karin Borgkvist Ljung, a senior archivist at the National Archive in Marieberg in Stockholm; Barbara Harris, founder and director of Project Prevention; and Lynn Paltrow, executive director and founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. Video by Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer.