CAN'T SLEEP PROPERLY? BLAME IT ON YOUR MOTHER; 3 OTHER IMPORTANT GENES YOU INHERIT FROM HER
With fast and stressful lifestyles, sleep can be difficult. For many people, less sleep becomes a part of life due to ageing, but statistics say many youngsters today suffer from insomnia and other sleep-related disorders that affect their overall health and well-being. However, according to doctors, many of your sleep issues can also be genetic.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a professional organisation for physicians specialising in sleep, says 30 per cent of adults have trouble sleeping and while there are many factors that influence it like light, noise, and temperature, your genetics play an important role.
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According to experts, circadian rhythms are partially genetically determined and influence sleep patterns. Mothers not only pass on genes that affect these rhythms but also shape sleep environments and habits during early developmental periods. Studies say children whose mothers had insomnia have poorer sleep quality till the age of 12 years.Meta-analyses of wide research also estimate that 40 per cent of insomnia, 44 per cent of sleep quality, and 46 per cent of sleep duration are heritable.
Doctors say your mother’s genes influence how fast or slow your internal clock runs and, as a result, how closely it—and your body’s functions—align with the 24-hour day. Changes in these genes, known as mutations, from one generation to the next can affect the clock's timing.
Related News |For those who either sleep early or late, each of these conditions results from mutations, which code for proteins that are responsible for timekeeping in your body cells.
Tips on how to get better sleep
- Do not eat a big meal within two hours of going to bed
- Establish a calming nightly routine
- Put down the phone
- Exercise regularly
- Create a soothing atmosphere within your room
- Keep your room tidy
- Drink some warm milk
- Wake up at the same time every day
A few other things you inherit from your mothers
Diseases and conditions
You also can inherit diseases, or a greater likelihood of getting a disease, from either parent. And so, conditions like Huntington’s disease—because of the way the gene is inherited, you can get it from your mother. If she has h carries on the X chromosome, as a boy you will be at greater risk for the disease because you only have one X chromosome (XY). Girls have two X chromosomes (XX), which essentially dilutes the faulty gene.
With conditions like lupus or diabetes, the equation is a lot more complicated. Though your mom's genes may put you at risk for these diseases, you may also need to be exposed to certain factors in your environment to actually develop the condition.
Weight loss
According to studies, the amount of a certain type of fat you inherit comes from the mother. A person carries two main fat types: white adipose tissue and brown adipose tissue. Brown adipose tissue can increase your metabolism and help you maintain a healthy body weight.The research concludes that the amount of brown adipose tissue you inherit comes from the long non-coding RNA H19 (lncRNA H19), which the mother passes down.
Intelligence
A child inherits their intelligence primarily through the X chromosome and considering that women have two X chromosomes, some scientists theorise mothers are twice as likely to pass down intelligence-related traits. 2025-02-06T06:34:35Z