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Question:Does anybody know anything about cellular memory? Per the new Jessica Alba movie 'The Eye'.There was a guy on Tyra yest. that received a liver from a young 16 year old. Well, before the transplant the guy always craved chocolate and was 20 pounds overweight. After the transplant he stopped eating choc., started craving spaghetti and pizza and started riding roller costers & also lost 20 lbs. Well, they revealed to him on the show that the 16 year old loved spaghetti and pizza AND riding on roller coasters! I thought it was pretty interesting. It got me thinking...IF you believe this theory is true, could a pregnant woman take on some of the charecteristics of the baby's father? Since his sperm enters the woman and creates the baby and she would be sharing blood with the baby, etc. Of course the father can give characteristics to the child, but what about the mother? Could the woman take on some of the characteristics of the father with the exchange of fluids between Mom, Dad and Baby?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Does anybody know anything about cellular memory? Per the new Jessica Alba movie 'The Eye'.There was a guy on Tyra yest. that received a liver from a young 16 year old. Well, before the transplant the guy always craved chocolate and was 20 pounds overweight. After the transplant he stopped eating choc., started craving spaghetti and pizza and started riding roller costers & also lost 20 lbs. Well, they revealed to him on the show that the 16 year old loved spaghetti and pizza AND riding on roller coasters! I thought it was pretty interesting. It got me thinking...IF you believe this theory is true, could a pregnant woman take on some of the charecteristics of the baby's father? Since his sperm enters the woman and creates the baby and she would be sharing blood with the baby, etc. Of course the father can give characteristics to the child, but what about the mother? Could the woman take on some of the characteristics of the father with the exchange of fluids between Mom, Dad and Baby?

The only thing I can offer is speculation.

However, think about this: Old couples that have been together for years and years DO look similar, do they not?

no, only major organs do that, not fluids. think about it...cause when you make out w/someone ur spit goes in their mouth, but you don't take on their characteristics.
(I thought the movie was gonna be good and scary....it was ok, but it wasn't as spooky as I would have liked)
Cellular memory is the hypothesis that such things as memories, habits, interests, and tastes may somehow be stored in all the cells of human bodies, i.e. not only in the brain. The suggestion arose following a number of organ transplants in which the recipient was reported to have developed the memories.



don't you know what saliva is made out of and what they can find out from it???

You've been watching too many movies.
Go outside and get some fresh air.

I don't think it's possible for a woman to take characteristics like that. I could understand with the transplant, considering the DNA has officially entered the body. With the sperm, it just pretty much "transfers" DNA to the egg, it's not released into the blood system.

I don't think that it's possible for a woman to have charactoristics of the baby's father. I do however believe that the pizza and spaghetti scenario is possible. Havn't seen the movie yet... was it good?

No, it's not possible. But if you spend time with someone (such as you should be if you are making babies) you may learn to appreciate better the things that they enjoy.

no no no!!! you are letting your imagination get to you. these stories and movies aren't real. that episode on tyra was simply to get ratings and the people simply want to believe. every ones taste buds change as you get older. not to mention that guy on tyra had been sick and stuffed full of all sorts of medicine. his taste buds will change most of all. the other guy is right you need to get outside for some fresh air and not obsess about things.

i dont think so the sperm in the mothers body wod only help for the child the mother during her birth depending on whos harmones r strong wod get those characteristics ,simple;)

Don't believe everything you see on TV, dear.

Think of all the women in this country who have borne children. If sperm could influence the mom, there would be roughly 40 million more women in the US who would like to spend Sunday afternoons watching football games and letting the housework go than there are, and women would stop talking about their problems, unless they could be fixed fixed with a ratchet wrench or a ball-peen hammer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_me...

You are REALLY in the wrong place for this. This is the genealogy forum, not genetics. They are not the same thing and are not related.

Genealogy is a HISTORICAL body of research of one's deceased ancestors, and is about birth/marriage/death dates and places, what countries our ancestors came from, how our ancestors affected and impacted history, etc; and uses HISTORICAL documents such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, tax records, land records, court records, church records, wills and probate records, etc., to back up and document our research, and anyone can do it if they work at it.

Genetics is a SCIENCE that requires years of college and specialized training to do, and is concerned with genes, microbiology, etc., and uses SCIENTIFIC methods and experiments to prove or disprove theory or to show cause and effect. Research is done in a lab, not in the records basement of court houses and churches.

Genealogists are not geneticists.