Is happiness inherited or not?

A new study suggests that emotions throughout our lives also affect our children.

Dr. Halabe Bucay said that many of the chemicals that our brains produce when we experience different emotions that can affect germ cells (egg and sperm itself), these cells basically create our next generation. Natural chemicals can affect the pathway in which certain genes are expressed in germ cells, thereby affecting the way our children develop.

In the latest issue published by Bioscience Hypotheses, Dr. Alberto Halabe Bucay of the Center for Halabe and Darwich Research, Mexico, thinks that hormones and chemicals are born from happy emotions, frustration and other mental states affect eggs and sperm, causing long-term changes in children at the time they are conceived.

Is happiness inherited or not?Hormones and chemicals that arise from happy feelings, frustration and other mental states can affect eggs and sperm, causing long-term changes in our children and timing. conception.(Photo: iStockphoto / Quavondo Nguyen)

Chemicals such as endorphins, and opium such as marijuana or heroin are known to have a significant effect on sperm and eggs, altering the genotype of activity in it. Dr. Halabe Bucay said: 'Of course we all know that parental behavior affects children, the genes that children receive from parents help shape the child's personality. My research shows that the physiological characteristics of parents before conception affects their genes'.

Dr. William Bains, editor of Bioscience Hypotheses magazine, commented: 'This is an interesting perspective. We want to publish this study to see what other scientists think about it, and whether they have information to support or reject it. This is our magazine's mission to stimulate debate around new perspectives, which is as shocking as possible. '

References
Halabe Bucay et al.Endorphins, personality, and inheritance: Establishing the biochemical bases of inheritance.Bioscience Hypotheses, May 7, 2009;DOI: 10.1016 / j.bihy.2009.03.003