Tegan Taylor

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2,688 appearances 36 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2018 last heard 31 Jul

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Health Report · Genetic testing with online services, the effect of genetics on a population, safer pregnancy and antenatal care services, and why nano stuff and stem cells are like teenagers · 8 Mar 2021 podcast

So, why does it trigger mental health issues in some people, but not in others? voice-verified

Some people do have genetic. voice-verified

That predispose them to mental illness, we were just talking about genetic testing, but our experiences play a part too. voice-verified

And in recent years, researchers have been exploring that relationship between mental health and epigenetics, which is how the genes we inherit are controlled and expressed. voice-verified

Divya Meta is one of those researchers. voice-verified

She's been looking at how environmental health factors like social support and exercise influence our gene. voice-verified

activity and therefore our mental health. voice-verified

Welcome Divya. voice-verified

So, Divya, if all of us are experiencing similar levels of trauma and stress across our lives, and of course there are some people who have m much more trauma than others, but on the whole most of us have the same, what makes us respond so differently? voice-verified

Sure. voice-verified

So this is a really complex topic. voice-verified

You've got someone's genetics, you've got things that are happening in their lives and maybe there's a gene expression associated with that. voice-verified

How do you actually study something as complicated as this? voice-verified

And so when you're taking these swabs, they they're showing a different map at different points in time, are they? voice-verified

So you found quite an interesting way of controlling for uh checking someone before and after stress exposures. voice-verified

You looked at students who were studying to be paramedics and you looked at them at the beginning of their course and then after they would have had to go out with the ambulance and voice-verified

Presumably be exposed to a stressful situation. voice-verified

Right, so you can't change your DNA, but you can change some of these environmental factors. voice-verified

What factors did you find were the most protective? voice-verified

So you've got your social connections, that sort of makes sense, but you're saying that having a sense of identity or as part of a group, even if you're not physically with them, is also protective. voice-verified

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