Re: Maternal diet as a kind of genetic modification

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 09:03:46 MDT

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    On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Anders Sandberg wrote:

    > The gain in human intelligence and eventual ability of a good
    > maternal feeding program might be far greater than many adult
    > intelligence enhancement programs.

    I believe that Leonid Gavrilov speculated in a recent JAAM article
    that some of the extension in longevity we are observing may be
    due to better maternal nutrition and/or nutrition during early
    development. It makes sense if one postulates that it may lead
    to an increase in the pool of available stem cells that one
    can utilize later in life.

    So there may be both intelligence and longevity gains from better
    nutrition.

    R.



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