What if I told you that what your grandmother ate when she was pregnant with your mother... is affecting your health RIGHT NOW?

No, this isn't some mystical energy stuff. This is HARD SCIENCE. Measurable. Documented. Proven.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

The Dutch Hunger Winter Studies - What happens when a population experiences extreme famine during pregnancy? Researchers tracked the children and grandchildren of women who were pregnant during the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945. What they found changed everything we know about genetics.

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance - Your grandmother's metabolic state during pregnancy programmed your mother's epigenetic patterns in the womb. Those patterns were then passed down to YOU. You're literally experiencing the metabolic effects of food your grandmother never ate.

The Three Vulnerable Windows - There are specific periods when epigenetic patterns are most vulnerable: preconception (3-6 months before), pregnancy (especially first trimester), and early childhood (first 1000 days). During these windows, maternal metabolic state has outsized effects on fetal gene expression.

Breaking Generational Patterns - Here's the most important part: epigenetic inheritance is REAL, but it's also REVERSIBLE. You're not doomed by your ancestors' choices. You can override inherited patterns through proper metabolic optimization.

Practical Protocols Covered:

• Prospective parent nutrition (both mothers AND fathers matter)
• Why the preconception window is critical
• How maternal metabolism programs fetal genes
• Optimizing your own epigenetics regardless of what you inherited
• Breaking generational patterns of metabolic dysfunction

The Key Insight:

Back in Season 2, Episode 1, we revealed the truth: it's a 25/75 split. Your genes only account for about 25% of your health outcomes. The other 75%? That's the epigenetic code - the switches that turn genes on and off. And those switches can be set by events that happened BEFORE you were even conceived.

This is the information that changes how you think about family history. Your doctor says "it runs in the family" like that's a life sentence. I'm showing you that what "runs in the family" is epigenetic programming - and epigenetic programming can be changed.

Resources Mentioned:

• Energy Reset Essentials ($39): biosparkhealth.com/energy-reset
• Bioenergetic Reset Program ($133/month): biosparkhealth.com/reset
• Free Metabolic Assessment: biosparkhealth.com/assessment
• Free Epigenetic Health Guide: biosparkhealth.com/epigenetics

About Your Host: Dr. Steven Presciutti is a metabolic health specialist who helps people break generational patterns of disease through epigenetic optimization. This is Week 4 of our 6-week Epigenetics Deep Dive series on The Metabolic Revolution Podcast.

We have been taught that epigenetics is about diet and stress. But there is a missing piece affecting you every single second. Your environment is ALSO code. The light entering your eyes. The temperature of your skin. The invisible electromagnetic fields filling your space. These are direct epigenetic signals that determine which genes are active and which are silent. In Week 3 of our 6-week epigenetics series, we dive deep into HOW your environment writes code to your genes. What you will learn: How light hitting your eyes literally changes which genes are active through ipRGCs, melanopsin, and CLOCK genes. Why red light therapy activates DNA repair genes with 300 plus genes changed in one session. How temperature is not about comfort, it is an epigenetic signal. What heat shock proteins are and why they are critical for longevity based on the Finnish sauna study showing 50 percent lower heart disease risk. How cold exposure activates genes that burn fat with UCP-1 activated 40 fold. Why EMF might be the most overlooked epigenetic disruptor of our time. Specific protocols to hack your environment for optimal gene expression. Episode callbacks to S2E2 on food as code, S2E1 on genes not being destiny, S1E22 on light and metabolism, and S1E10 on temperature as a metabolic signal. Next week we cover stress, cortisol, and methylation.

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Every bite of food you eat is sending instructions to your genes. Right now. As we speak. Your breakfast is literally programming your DNA.

In Week 2 of our 6-week epigenetics series, Dr. Steve Presciutti reveals the revolutionary science of how nutrients act as code that reprograms your genetic expression in real-time. This isn't about calories or macros. This is about information.

What You'll Discover:

• The 5 methyl donors that determine which genes turn on and off (folate, B12, choline, methionine, B6) - and why 90% of people are deficient in at least 2-3 of them

• Why "food is fuel" is the biggest lie in nutrition - and how Dr. Mark Hyman's "food is information" framework changes everything

• The ATP-methylation connection: Why you can't optimize gene expression without optimizing cellular energy first

• Polyphenol powerhouses: How curcumin, resveratrol, quercetin, and EGCG regulate the enzymes that control your genetic expression

• Your complete epigenetic meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner protocols to rewrite your genetic code every single day

Client Transformations:

Sarah: 97.2°F → 98.4°F body temperature, TSH 6.8 → 2.1 in 6 weeks by optimizing methyl donors

Mark: CRP 8.2 → 2.1, resolved chronic inflammation and brain fog by adding polyphenol-rich foods

Jennifer: 96.8°F → 98.4°F, reversed fatigue and depression by combining energy optimization with methylation support

The Science:

Anderson et al. (2012) - DNA methylation is strongly influenced by dietary methyl donors (893 citations)

Bekdash et al. (2023) - Methyl donors modulate the epigenome and are critical for brain health (60 citations)

Lorente-Cebrián et al. (2025) - Polyphenols promote histone acetylation and gene expression activation (5 citations)

Wallace (2010) - Mitochondrial function modulates DNA methylation through ATP production (648 citations)

Lopes et al. (2020) - Mitochondria control substrates for nuclear DNA methylation (121 citations)

Rosenberger et al. (2021) - SAM levels control mitochondrial energy metabolism through protein methylation (52 citations)

The Truth:

Your genes aren't your destiny. Your gene expression is. And that's something you can control with every meal.

Food is code. And you are the programmer.

Ready to write better code?

Take the Metabolic Health Assessment at biosparkhealth.com/assessment

We'll create your personalized epigenetic nutrition protocol - specific foods, timing, and supplements based on YOUR unique biochemistry. Because you didn't come this far to only come this far.

Next Week: The 25/75 Truth - twin studies, epigenetic divergence, and scientific proof that lifestyle matters more than genetics.

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