Epigenetics

Shaping Your Health Story

Your genes are not your destiny. Epigenetics reveals how nutrition, environment, emotions, lifestyle, and even spiritual states can switch your genes on or off, shaping the way your body functions, heals, and ages. This means you have the power to influence your own health, vitality, and longevity.

What is Epigenetics?

Epigenetic changes act like little tags or switches on your DNA. They don’t change your genetic code, but they influence how genes are expressed — turning them up, down, or off completely.

These subtle changes can protect you, or in some cases, increase the risk of illness.

Key Epigenetic Influences:

1. Environmental Exposures – Diet, toxic metals (mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium), hydrocarbons (plastics, solvents, fuels, petrochemicals), pollutants, and radiation.

2. Lifestyle Choices – Smoking, alcohol, exercise, and nutrition.

3. Stress – Chronic stress alters stress-response genes.

4. Nutrition – Micronutrients like folate affect DNA methylation.

5. Aging – Epigenetic changes accumulate with age.

6. Genetic Background – Some people are more sensitive to changes.

7. Medications – Certain treatments can shift gene expression.

8. Infections – Viruses such as HPV or hepatitis may trigger epigenetic modifications.

9. Hormones – Estrogen and testosterone influence reproductive health and fertility.

Epigenetics and Health

When gene control goes off balance, risks of cancer, immune dysfunction, metabolic disorders, and brain conditions can increase. But by understanding your epigenetic profile, you can take proactive steps to optimize health and reduce risks.

Epigenetic Mapping Test

At Ozone 369, we offer the Epigenetic Hair Follicle Analysis, a cutting-edge tool from Cell Wellbeing, Germany. This analysis provides insight into your personal epigenetic profile, capturing how lifestyle and environment are influencing your health — including toxic metal exposures that may be undermining your wellbeing.