How your environment impacts you

As a genetics professor, I talk a lot about the role of genes in everything from child behavior to addiction and mental health, mostly because that’s the part that’s often overlooked, that people aren’t talking about. But that doesn’t mean that the environment doesn’t play a critical role as well. It absolutely does. About half of the differences between people — whether we’re talking about how risk-taking or impulsive or anxious or conscientious people are — are due to differences in the DNA sequences they were born with, and about half is due to differences in our environments. <a href="https://medium.com/@drdanielledick/how-your-environment-impacts-you-8ccb4fd2a761">Click Here</a>