Answer: Of course. That include not only the area that surrounds you or the places considered unhealthy that you usually loiter upon. Pollution is the enemy of the proper functioning of the genes. What you internalize like the air, water and food affects your health because it could trigger the genes to function normally or abnormally and in the case of the latter in the long run produce a disease. In fact, ISCSPM is very much open for membership by a molecular nutritionist, one who has extensive knowledge of the molecular and cellular functions of a specific food (substance) once it is integrated in the body cells and how it affects genetic functions contributory resulting to the person's physiological phenotype.
Below is part of the Introduction of Isidro Antonio Torte Savillo's theoretical article on "The Overpowering Influence of the Environment to Gene Expression" written in 2002 which may be useful for FAQ#2.
"The earth is similar to a universal biological incubator where all present day organisms are capable of living and reproducing. It is clear that our bodies… and for a meaningful rationale, our cells are subjected to various degrees, though each individual factor may differ from each other but not too far apart, of temperature, pressure, radiation, the stretches of days and nights, and other physical phenomena (e.g. the tilting posture particular to the revolution of the earth and works of the gravitational forces, the sounds of the passing train, the visual perception of blinking lights, etc.) in a daily basis. Much more, other factors, like pollution, diseases, food, traditional components that have been gripped by so many, newly shaped cultures as a result of newer trends in fashion, religion, government, commerce, education or just any belief or talent which has sprouted also nudge our cells. These factors, we see and feel around us. Its integration to our bodies via our senses or through the alimentary canal or other openings in our bodies like skin pores, etc. has brought direct or indirect contact to our most precious property inside our cells , Our Genes."
