When we look at the underpinnings of illness and disease there are a number of factors that contribute including the environment, diet, lack of activity and infectious agents. There are also other critical elements to understand if we want to understand illness s and promote wellness. This includes understanding the emotional conflicts that program for disease, not just from the trauma in our own lives, but also from the traumas of our ancestors. Biogeneology and epigenetics explores the connection between the experiences along the family tree and the occurrence of disease a family's descendants