Steven Bartlett

Well, we all have genes for something, but they don't necessarily get expressed.

That's what epigenetics is.

It means the environment has to turn on the gene to make it, let's rock and roll, right?

What it showed in this study is that the children who were born with this genetic precursor, this sensitivity to stress, if they had sensitive empathic nurturing in present parents in the first year,

it neutralized the expression of that gene so those children could be as healthy as children born without that gene.

If, however, children born with that sensitivity gene were neglected, you know, abandoned, not provided with sensitive empathic present nurturing...

it exacerbated that gene.

So we know that that sensitivity gene is tied and correlated to mental illness later on unless the sensitive empathic nurturing mitigates that gene.

And yeah, there's all kinds of neurological tests now where we can see the brain in action.

So it's not a static thing.

We can actually see the blood flow to the brain.

We can see the electrical activity in the brain.

It's amazing, actually.

No, it's not correct.

Their brain is sensitive to stress.

Someone with ADHD is more sensitive to stress.

So you could ask them questions like this.

You could say, are you a more sensitive person?

Are you more sensitive to noise?

to smells, to touch when you were a child?