This article on epigenetic inheritance appeared in my Facebook feed, just like many articles do. I guess there’s some positive benefits to Facebook’s algorithms noticing what you like and share. In other articles, I speak of epigenetics, what they are, and how the process works. I've given the Reader’s Digest version of epigenetics as a reminder. A simple Google search provides a great description so feel free to do your own Google search.
Epigenetics is the study of how behaviors and environmental factors (diet, stress, and toxins) cause changes that affect how genes work without changing the underlying DNA sequence. The basics of how epigenetics work and function:
The article that came my way is titled, “Demographic and genetic factors shape the epitope specificity of the human antibody repertoire against viruses” and was published in February of 2026 in Nature Immunology volume 27, pages 600–612 (2026) Click on the title where you can download the PDF of the article. I've also put a link at the end of this article.
The researchers are from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and INSERM. The article quotes at the beginning that they, “completed the most definitive human study of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance ever conducted — following three generations of Holocaust survivor families, Cambodian genocide survivor families, and control populations across 25 years — finding specific, reproducible methylation changes in stress-response genes that are present in trauma survivors, transmitted to their biological children, and detectable in grandchildren who never experienced trauma themselves. Emotional pain leaves molecular scars. Those scars are heritable.”
The article is highly technical and has all the key details for those in the scientific community who wish to geek out on this topic. For the general curious person, there are some key take aways for us to consider. The most important key from this research is that epigenetic switches are reprogrammable! How do we do that? Let’s begin with some key points from the article that may lead us to a plausible solution.
How can this article help you?
To begin with, it’s important to understand that epigenetics can be changed. Epigenetics are different than genes. I don’t fully understand how that works but what I do know is that “change” is the keyword here. If we study what neuroscientists are saying, everything begins with our belief systems. Those can always be “switched.” Since the authors of this study worked with a large group of people over a 25-year period, and proved that epigenetic switches can be flipped, it’s a matter of doing it.
Traumas are inherited, according to this study. I believe that also includes belief systems that "piggyback" on those traumas. What your ancestors went through can be passed on to you. I didn’t understand that until having a conversation with my mother about the horrific things she suffered during her childhood. It also explained why she had mental issues and why they got worse near the time of her death. At the time, I didn’t know her trauma was stored in an epigenetic switch within me. During my journey of dealing with those issues, I started hearing about epigenetic interitance and knew that was a solution. Inner healing only goes so far because you’re only dealing with your own junk, not the junk from your ancestors.
At the same time, I didn’t want to approach a healing protocol with a negative mindset – my belief system. I had to change my way of thinking before moving forward. This is where people like Joe Dispenza and Dr. Caroline Leaf come into the picture. They both describe a process of “coming out of agreement” with life traumas by “retraining the brain” to think in a new way. It requires seeing things from a position of gratitude despite what you see, hear, sense, and feel, or the state of your body at that moment. Once we reach that point of a mindset shift, the traumatic epigenetic switch can be flipped.
How do we know when that occurs? Let’s look at Joe Dispenza for a moment. I don’t know much about his story, but he shares that a major accident almost killed him and made it so he couldn’t function physically. Instead of marinating in self-pity, he saw himself AS already being completely healed. He meditated from a position of gratitude 24 hours, 7 days a week on healing. It took quite a while before the “manifestation” of the healing took place.
A preacher I knew about in the 1980’s, Kenneth Hagin, had a similar experience. He was given a death sentence and told by his doctors to go home and die. Just like Joe Dispenza, he meditated (using scriptures about healing) 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. He saw that he was already healed based on what he was reading. One day, he walked into the kitchen of his house, completely healed, to the shock of his family.
How many of us are that dedicated to seeing things within our body change? For both Dispenza and Hagin, healing was their sole focus IN a position of gratitude and thankfulness. After undergoing a mindset shift, healing took place. That was a switch being flipped in their epigenetics. It all began with the THOUGHT of being healed. They then INTENDED to be healed by framing a healing mindsets, and the manifestation was the ACTION of the healing process. Therefore, our thoughts, intents, and actions play a huge role in the process! What you think is what you become.
For ancestral epigenetic switch flipping from trauma to freedom, the process may differ from person to person. I just know that inner healing is often a band-aid solution and keeps the issue at bay until we deal with any negative mindsets that we may be unknowingly holding onto. I’m not saying that inner healing is a bad thing. I’ve gone through a lot of it and at the time, it got me over the major hurdles. However, lasting change only came when I went through a mindset transformation process.
Conclusion
As I’ve walked my own healing journey, I’ve learned a few things along the way. I’m living from a place now where I’m rarely sick, can be grateful in almost any situation, and enjoy life. If you’d like to learn more about my process, I encourage you to start with my book, Transforming Mindsets: A Story of Healing From Abuse. You can find it as a PDF HERE or get it on Amazon in Kindle or paperback. Those links are also below in the resources.
Next, begin a wholeness protocol that helps you reframe negative mindsets so that you’re living from a position of gratitude no matter what’s going on around you. I have a new course coming out in June of 2026 that includes lessons (both audio and written), activations, and music. It’s from a spiritual perspective and is designed to help you switch negative epigenetic switches through a mind transforming process. I have some of those materials available in two other courses. The key point is to understand your true identity and not take on what others dictate who you are or say what you should do.Enoy the journey and stay in an attitude of gratitude no matter what comes your way. I'll give you a hint from the upcoming course... begin by creating a "gratitude jar" where you write things you're grateful for each morning when you get up. Put them in a jar and read them throughout the day. Pull random ones from the jar as time goes on and be grateful for them again. This will help with the mind transformation process!
Del
March 2026