. “Our findings are significant because they demonstrate that your environment when you are in the womb can not only affect your health but also can permanently alter the information that you pass on to your children when they are conceived, and that this affects their health as adults,” says study author Elizabeth Radford, who wrote the paper as an MB/PhD student at the University of Cambridge. The new research builds on earlier work and solidifies the link between epigenetics and these multigenerational health issues.