My former spouse, as you may know, is #autistic. He has particular nuances. We - as in I - learned his rules to help his anxiety, to assure his needs were met, to assure he wouldn't panic. There were a plethora of rules that I strictly adhered to in anticipation of an outburst, always scanning and evaluating scenarios that may need my attention. Those were just the rules I was conscious of because when you live in these types of environments there are many learned behaviors y

This term is commonly used in functional medicine and I am not confident it's always clear to my clients, or even my colleagues what this means or even why it is so important. I would argue that #epigenetics is why functional medicine clinicians focus so much more on your lifestyle because ultimately, the science has shown us that lifestyle is more important than our genes. Epigenetics describes how the environment controls our health by turning genes on and off. We use to be