Epigenetics Explained with Dr. Amanda Khoury

Today we’re talking all about epigenetics! What is it, how does it work and how can we use that information to protect our DNA and reduce our risk of diseases such as cancer. To listen to the podcast version: https://travellingscientist.com/podcast Dr. Amanda Khoury, a Cancer Epigeneticist who is driven by a deep curiosity to work out how our bodies work and how a breakdown in our epigenetic processes can give rise to disease. Dr. Khoury’s work focuses on preventing DNA damage and developing therapies that could potentially repair our DNA and reduce the incidence of disease. You can follow Amanda on Twitter @Amandakhoury9 Get guest updates and submit your listener questions via Instagram: https://instagram.com/travellingscience/ During this episode, a donation was made to Ardoch, a children’s education charity that aims to improve learning outcomes for children in disadvantaged communities across Australia: https://www.ardoch.org.au/about-ardoch/ If you’d like to make a donation as well, that would be incredible. Thank you for making a positive change in the world Chapters: 00:00 Travelling Science Intro 02:02 What is Epigenetics 04:20 How does Epigenetics work? 08:09 How DNA is organised 11:18 Cancer causing mutations 14:16 How to prevent mutations 17:07 Why we have so much DNA 21:03 How to repair DNA Damage 27:42 Talking Pub Trivia 32:16 Listener Questions / Weekly Charity Donation 37:19 The Lightning Round 41:59 Final Words of Wisdom 44:26 Bonus Secret Ending! BE MY FRIEND: 🖥 Check out my website - https://www.travellingscientist.com 🎙 Listen to the podcast - https://www.travellingscientist.com/podcast 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://bit.ly/3CaLQCM 📸 Slide into my DMs on Instagram - https://instagram.com/travellingscience/ 🐦 Teach me how to Twitter - https://twitter.com/jessejcrowe 🎬 Check out my YouTube Channel- https://youtube.com/thetravellingscientist 📘 Join the Facebook Community - https://facebook.com/travellingscientist 🍻 Support my channel via Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thetravellingscientist 🕺🏼 Learn & Laugh at my TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@travellingscience WHO AM I: I'm Jesse, a health science communicator currently living in Melbourne, Australia. I make videos about the science of health and wellbeing. I also write a weekly email newsletter that contains plenty of interesting information to help you live smarter, happier and healthier. (https://bit.ly/3CaLQCM). GET IN TOUCH: If you want to reach out, I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email me at [email protected] I will try my best to respond but unfortunately I am very busy with work and research...sorry 😭