Meet Your Genes! - What You Inherited, What You Became, and How to Finally Tell the Difference #1003246

Your grandmother's silence. Your father's temper. The exact way you stand in a doorway when you're bracing for bad news...
How much of it did you actually inherit, and how much did you just watch closely enough, for long enough, to become? What if the thing you always blamed on your DNA was never in your DNA at all?
Meet Your Genes! is the second volume in the Think You Know Yourself? series, written by a physician and psychiatrist who has spent a career watching the line between body and identity disappear. Jasmin Sarif separates two mechanisms people constantly confuse: the traits written directly into your genetic code, and the traits you absorbed simply by watching someone else closely enough, for long enough, that imitation started to feel like inheritance.
Chapter by chapter, this book covers the real science of epigenetics — how stress, sleep, and sustained behavior change which genes get expressed, and how that process may continue across your entire life, not just your childhood. It covers what current research does and doesn't support about generational trauma, what identical twin studies actually reveal about personality, and which traits — temperament, addiction risk, even taste — carry a genuine, well-documented genetic signal.
Meet Your Genes! is not a book about blame, and it isn't a book about excuses. It's a field guide to a harder, more useful question:
Which parts of you were handed to you before you had a say, and which parts were simply taught?