Abstract

AYURVEDA, EPIGENETICS AND FEMALE INFERTILITY

Dr. Aishwarya Bongane*, Dr. Jana Avhad and Dr. Vidhya Sarode

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Abstract

The concepts of survival and adaptability comes only when the modern era goes hand in hand with the ancient wisdom. This article deals with the correlation of new concept which gave a brand new path to the world of genetics i.e. epigenetics and our vedic knowledge i.e. ayurveda in view of female infertility. Epigenetics is the study of how person’s behaviour and environment can cause changes that affect the way one’s genes work.[1] Unlike genetic changes, epigenetic changes are reversible and do not change the DNA sequence, but they can change how body reads a DNA sequence. This article primarily deals with the core 4 external factors that cause epigenetic changes and are mainly responsible for infertility i.e. 1) Diet 2) Stress 3) Night shift 4) Environmental changes, While ayurveda has already described the idea of epigenetic changes in the form of prakruti in Charak indriya sthana[2] and even mentioned the methods to prevent it and give birth to healthy progeny.

Keywords: Epigenetics, prakruti, DNA, chromatinremodeling, histone modification, microRNA.