Figure 2.

The impact of bioactive epigenetic dietary compounds on GDM. Maternal consumption of bioactive dietary components from a variety of epigenetics diets, such as sulforaphane in broccoli, genistein in soy, and catechins in green tea, can mediate epigenetic changes, such as histone modifications, DNA methylation patterns, and non-coding RNAs. Consequently, these epigenetic changes prevent metabolic disorders in GDM mothers, their developing fetuses, and their offspring later in life. Lastly, chromatin changes that influence metabolic disease susceptibility can be transferred from one generation to the next generation through epigenetic inherence from maternal epigenetics diets. miRNA refers to microRNA and lncRNA refers to long non-coding RNA. ↑ refers increase and ↓ refers decrease.