Doctoring in the genes

Dr. Bob Lahita ran New Jersey’s top hospitals and ambulance services, operated a triage unit on the ground in NJ on 9/11, authored a library of medical volumes, cared for my late husband and I know him half a century. His new book’s ­“Destiny, the New Genetics, and Your Future.”

Lahita: “Popes to presidents want to know about sickness and incapacity. ‘Epigenetics,’ a collection of light switches, means genes are fingers. Parental wiring. A pregnant mother’s diet can affect a child’s health. Cigarettes, pollution, stress, nutrition, toxins affect subsequent generations. Forget genes but changed behavior can influence the onset and course of disease. Our destiny is not fixed.

“A clinician and researcher, I know health can influence future generations. It can exp

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