April 3, 2013
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Food Matters on Facebook had an article by a Dr. Mercola on lowering high blood pressure without drugs. He mentions many dietary, exercise related and stress related life changing things you can do to naturally lower your blood pressure. Sound familiar? I talk about diet, stress, exercise , thinking and belief as epigenetic life changing factors in this BLOG. Our bodies evolved to respond to conditions around us. For the last million years or more changes were relatively slow. In modern times we have changed the environment we live in drastically. We exercise less, we are in constant stress, we eat processed foods, we eat the wrong things from a nutrient point of view, we tend more toward negative thoughts than positive ones, and we don’t believe in much lowering the placebo effect and increasing the nocebo effect. This is causing drastic epigenetic changes in our bodies that can lead to increased illness and early death.
Dr Mercola states one source of high blood pressure is a diet rich in grains and fructose. Americans eat way too many grains. Cereals (except oatmeal), sweets, breads, etc are all sugars or turn to sugar in our bodies. Diabetes can be caused by too much sugars in our diet. Diabetes and high blood pressure are linked. The great news is we all have a choice in life. No one is forced to eat wrong or not exercise or live a high stressed life! It’s your choice.We should be changing our life styles and teaching our kids what is really important in life. You can change your lifestyle and live a healthier and happier life. Just do it … NO EXCUSES!
March 28, 2013
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Even our kids are getting fatter at a faster rate. What’s going on? USA Today ran an article today about kids meals at popular restaurants. The results were:
Applebee’s 1,210 calories
Chilli’s 1,010 calories
Denny’s 980 calories
Ruby Tuesday’s 860 calories, and
Dairy Queen 1,030 calories
This is one meal! three meals later plus sodas and snacks and the kid is eating several times the calories of an adult male. And why are we getting fat? Parents take control you are in charge. Don’t buy meals out. They are expensive and making your kids obese. Cook something healthy, non sweet and non salted. Include raw fruits and nuts (un salted). Your child
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will lose weight, feel better and enjoy themselves and life more. Being fat also increase stress on the child. Remember my epigenetic triggers? Diet, Thinking, exercise and stress. Eating these meals will cause each of these to cause health issues with your child. Obesity is are enemy.
March 26, 2013
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We are made up of more than 10 trillion living cells. That is a huge community. More than all the animals on Earth! Each cell takes in nourishment and raw materials to build things, they excrete waste, they multiply to create a new generation of cells and they make decisions about the environment they find themselves in. They also communicate with each other. These cells are living organisms by any definition. They are grouped into local communities like our skin, heart, lungs, muscles, bones, etc. The whole body is a larger community similar to cities in states in countries. Just like in our cities, when things get back the city deteriorates and can die all together. Our cells can go bad (cancer or disease) and this can proliferate to other cells and harm the local community (heart, lungs, etc) or the whole body (death). Epigenetics allows cells to work on local activities like being a heart or a ling and communicate with other cells in the community and external to it. Epigenetics allows each cell to sample its environment and make decisions on how to react. These decisions can cause us to be healthy or sick. Cells don’t choose to go bad and cause cancer, they try to react to something in the environment and that can cause cancer.
Eat well and healthy, exercise, think positive and believe in life and happiness. Lower your stress through meditation. These simple rules will make you happy, loving and healthy.
March 21, 2013
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Every once in a while I like to re define epigenetics for my new readers. It literally means above genetics. Epigenetics are influences within the body and external from it that switch genes ON or OFF. This controls our genetics, our bodies as well as our health. Most mammals have very similar genes. So what makes us different from the apes or our cat & dog? It is how those genes are “played”. Epigenetics plays our genes like a piano. Different ways of playing yields different music. Each mammal is like a different song being played. Within our cells, epigenetics determines if a cell is a heart cell, ling cell, bone cell, etc. Once a cell is switched to a particular type, it and it’s descendents will always be that type of cell.
Let’s look at another analogy. Our home TV has many stations we can watch. We switch to a station with our clickers. We can also program child protection by not allowing certain stations to be viewed without a password. Epigenetics is like this. In some cases it switches a gene on (like selecting a TV station). That gene then does something. It can also block a gene from being turned on. That gene can then not do its thing.
We all have almost identical genes. Having a cancer gene is not good or bad. Switching it on can be bad! We all have tumor fighting genes as part of our bodies natural defense system. Having those genes switched off can be bad. These switches can happen from our diets, how we think (positive or negative), and what we believe. The placebo and nocebo effects show how powerful our thinking really is. Stress can also cause genes to be switched ON or OFF.
Even how our parents and grandparents thought and ate can influence us. It turns out we get not only inherited DNA but epigenetics from each parent.
March 7, 2013
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English: nutrigenomics, flow chart, diet, genes, disease (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Epigenetics are environmental influences that affect our genes. Our body reacts to the environment for good or bad. It’;s reactions cause genes to turn on or be blocked from turning on. It is an elaborate program That adjusts our bodies to new environmental conditions. The three main rules are:
- Diet – diet can cause health to be good with strong immune system or be weak and susceptible to diseases of all kinds. it is your choice! Plant based protein is proven over and over again to aid our bodies in building a strong immune system and fighting disease while animal protein causes inflammation which can lead to a weaker immune system and disease.
- Stress – Stress for early man was running from a saber toothed tiger and surviving. Afterwards the stress was gone. Today stress comes from our jobs, our families, finances, etc. It never ends or goes away in some people. Stress can weaken the immune system and cause diseases.
- Thinking – Dr Bruce Lipton has shown how thinking can cause epigenetic changes that can make us healthier or sicker. We know about placebos that cause us to believe they will heal us and therefore they do. Nocebos are the anti-placebo. If we believe we will get sick, we probably will. Positive thinking and belief will strengthen the immune system, heal or ills and prevent diseases. Negative thinking will cause the opposite effect. Our bodies believe what our minds tell it!
What messages are you sending to your body? If you eat poorly, have stress in your daily life and think negatively; you have a much higher probability of becoming ill with disease than a positive thinking, stressless vegan!
February 19, 2013
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I was in Whole Foods Supermarket yesterday and was pleasantly surprised at the number of non meat dishes in their prepared foods section. They have always had meat-less cold cuts and non dairy cheeses but there is an increase of delicious prepared foods made from vegetables. If you are an avid reader of this BLOG, you already know that vegetables are critical to human health. They give us our medicines but they also give us our health. If you are not a vegetable eater, try some new veggies. Try making them al-dente so they have a crunch to them (they will also have more nutrients in them). Most European cultures favor their vegetable dishes. Why do we Americans typically eat little or no vegetables? Health is your choice. God doesn’t make you sick nor does anyone except yourself. Change your life-style and enjoy better health. Diet, stress, exercise and thinking (positive or negative) are the main causes of healthy (good or bad). See my book on how these four items can bring you horrible illnesses or happy lifelong health! It is available from Barnes & Noble and Amazon as hardcover, paperback or e-book.
December 28, 2012
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AmeriCorps-Computer Program Joke (Photo credit: farrellink)
Live Strong says diet does cause genes to get turned ON or OFF thus affecting our genetic programming. Although the actual DNA doesn’t change, what it does will change! A computer program is very similar. The program code doesn’t change but the data being read causes the program to branch to different routines and do different things. The environment, including diet, is data for our genetic programming. It is read at the cellular level as nutrients and can cause genes to be turned ON or OFF. Thus switching of genes affects what our genetic programming does. The graphic to the right shows a computer program but is very similar to our genetic programs. Understand the inputs (environment) and processes (genes) and you will better understand the outcomes (health and well being).
December 5, 2012
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Cells give off messages to other cells that cause them to do different things. Our environment causes us to react and “Play” different notes on our
DNA.
AG Scientific says we have always kept science apart from love and nurture but they may actually be a part of the same thing. Our interpretation of the environment determines which programs or notes to play in our
genes. So if two people experience the same disease and one is totally depressed and resigned to it, they probably will die from it. The other person is positive, tries to imagine his or her body fighting off the disease and may actually accomplish just that. This is the
NOCEBO and
PLACEBO effects. Watch how you think about situations like work, the kids, health, politics, etc.
Bruce Lipton says “You are all powerful. You have power over the unfoldment of your life. You have power over which genes that are going to be activated.”
New articles on Placebo & Nocebo effects say it is dependent on our genes. I don’t believe this because our genes are only important if they are activated. What activates them? Epigenetics and more specifically our environment activates them. So these effects happen because of how we react to our environment. How we think, what we eat, etc.
July 11, 2012
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The Therapy Book says “Unbalanced diets lead to unbalanced minds.” A staggering 20.9 million Americans suffer from mood disorders. Omega-3 imbalances leads to these imbalances as well as iron and thiamine. Don’t get mad! Get healthy and enjoy life more!
July 5, 2012
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English: Caricature of Charles Darwin from Vanity Fair magazine. Caption read “Natural Selection”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Awakening posted an article on how our DNA acts as a computer chip interacting with it’s environment including our thoughts. Dr. Vladimir Poponin, Ph.D , quantum biologist, says that there are levels of structure within our DNA that control the operation of our genetic blueprint. Dr Bruce Lipton says evolution is driven by consciousness. Charles Darwin said, “The greatest error which I have committed has been in not allowing sufficient weight to the direct action of the Environments. Charles Darwin”. We are clearly influenced by our environment. Life is not an abstract concept but a development under the influence of an environment. Take our same life elsewhere with a very different environment and it will develop differently.
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