Researchers from the United States, representing the Ohio state University, found that the level of physical activity in men shortly before conception affect the mental abilities of their children. On this finding scientists writes Eurek Alert.
Experimenting on mice, scientists have concluded that physical activity of the fathers to the time of conception determines the “behavior” of sperm. Depending on the activity or inactivity of sperm cells produced two different sets of micro-RNAS – short sets of a few tens or hundreds of nucleotides, “team” genes. It turned out that at high level of activity of males shortly before conception nucleotides include genes to help develop high cognitive abilities.
“Sports shortly before conception directly affect the cognitive capacity of the offspring, whereas physical activity throughout the life of the fathers a big influence on the offspring is not provided”, – told the experts about the patterns they discovered.
Experiments with mice have shown that even males with obesity and health problems, but managed for a week before conceiving to lose weight through increased physical activity, could eventually become the fathers of more intelligent young compared to males, leading a sedentary lifestyle.
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