Re: Found the true cause of AF

 Patrick

No apologies required.  I’ve left in a huff a few times myself.

I agree that it is inherited.  But I have a slightly different take than you do.  I believe it is the chronic stress that is inherited, which eventually leads to a crash.

Check of this study done on chickens

http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.137...

Here are the results in a nutshell:

The exposed chickens  to a stressful environment. They simply kept changing when it was light and dark in their pen, so they sort of experienced perpetual jet lag.

These stress chickens would eventually become proud parents.

The stressed chickens had 31 stress related genes that became activated

Sidebar: Through epigenetics … it is the environment that matters, not DNA.  You may have a gene, but it is your environment that determines which genes are expressed (or activated)

So… compared to unstressed chicken parents the jet lagged chick parents had these 31 extra genes activated.

Now…..when their offspring were hatched, they had the same 31 genes activated. They never met their parents, so it wasn’t behavioral inheritance, it was epigenetics.

Ok… so the offspring of these stressed parents were found to be more aggressive and competitive than normal.