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Study: Physical Exercise Improves Health of Brain and Other Organs through Epigenetic Changes
Some sections of our DNA are genes, which are instructions for building proteins, while other sections — called enhancers — regulate which genes are switched on or off, when, and in which tissue. New research from the University of Copenhagen and the Karolinska Institutet provides evidence of a functional link between epigenetic rewiring of enhancers to control their activity after exercise training and the modulation of disease risk in humans.
http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/exercise-epigenetic-changes-09926.html