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it's probably no surprise for me to tell
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you that living a healthy lifestyle is
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good for you
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research is clear that maintaining a
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healthy diet and exercising regularly
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leads to longer more healthful lives
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but what you may not know is that
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we don't really know why
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research into the mechanisms that
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underpin a healthy lifestyle for
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specific disease contexts is lacking
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and this is important because humans are
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complex creatures so what is healthy for
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one person or condition
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may not be the same for another
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but
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how do we research this
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i work in a field called epigenetics
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where i study tiny molecular tags
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attached to dna
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how we live and what we're exposed to
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can have a huge influence on our
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epigenome
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my team is currently working to study
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the lifestyles and epigenomes of people
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with a painful inflammatory condition
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called rheumatoid arthritis
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the funding from this scheme would
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contribute directly towards this study
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which aims to pinpoint triggers and
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update the guidelines for managing
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arthritis
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together we could help half a million
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people in australia currently diagnosed
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with rheumatoid arthritis and
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potentially millions around the world
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