Andrew Huberman· PhD
It has to be wrapped up to exist inside us, but it's not just wrapped up willy-nilly, it's not just a bundle of string. It's wrapped up very carefully in ways that dictates which genes are switched on and off.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
It has to be wrapped up to exist inside us, but it's not just wrapped up willy-nilly, it's not just a bundle of string. It's wrapped up very carefully in ways that dictates which genes are switched on and off.
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And the way the cell does that, is that it wraps the DNA around proteins called histones. And those histones then attract each other, and eventually you get these structures we call chromosomes, which you can see sometimes with your eyes, but usually with a microscope. But it doesn't all get bundled, otherwise no genes could be read. Some of the genes have to be opened up and unraveled, unspooled, so that they can be turned on.