You may have seen the reel we included here, where Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong was talking about a gene called p53, the one that helps protect your cells from cancer. They’re right that viruses like COVID or HPV can affect it, but that’s only part of the story. Here’s what most people miss: your DNA can’t do anything on its own. It’s a library full of books, and something in your environment has to pull one off the shelf before it can express. That “something” is epigenetics, the way your physical, chem