March 12, 2012
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The University of Utah has a visual aide that allows you to adjust how your genes are wound tight or loosened up, thus adjusting how much protein they are making. Try turning the knob up and down and watch the resulting amount of protein being produced. This protein may be making red blood cells or new cell walls or communicating with other genes in the cell or other genes in other cells. The programming is complex but the principle is easy to understand. The control knob is like a dimmer switch on your light and the amount of protein is like how much light gets produced as you adjust the knob. Our health or illness is which combinations of genes are invoked by these proteins.
March 9, 2012
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The University of Utah has a video on how our epigenetics work. This video shows how factors from our environment can adjust which genes in our cells are active and which are inactive. This adjustment is our body’s way of trying to adjust to our environment. Genes being ON or OFF are neither good nor bad. The combination of genes and which genes are switched at what times is important. Having a gene that is associated with something bad doesn’t matter unless that gene becomes activated. Which genes are you activating or deactivating in your body?
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March 8, 2012
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Android, AppStore, Biology, Cell (biology), Conditions and Diseases, Diet, DNA, DNA methylation, Education, epigenetic, epigenetics diet belief thinking social, epigenome, Gene, Gene expression, Health, Healthcare, Humans, Nutrigenomics, Smartphone, Society, University of Utah, Utah, well being
Anyone with a smart phone knows about the Bump App. It allows you to select a calendar event, contact or picture and bump with another Smartphone user to pass the information on. The University of Utah, in the same article as we spoke about yesterday, says that close by cells can shake and bump and cause information to be passed on to a neighbor. What are our cells passing along? What are they saying? If we could listen in and understand we would solve almost all illnesses. Maybe someday we will have experts that can listen to and understand our cells language of epigenetics. Then we can begin to live a healthy illness free life without drugs.
March 7, 2012
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Biology, Biotechnology, cancer, Cell (biology), Conditions and Diseases, Disease, DNA, epigenetic, Epigenetics, epigenome, food, Gene, Gene expression, Health, Healthcare, Heart disease, Life, Nervous system, Nutrigenomics, Nutrition, Plant Based Foods, Programming, Stem cell, University of Utah, vegetable, well being
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The University of Utah has an excellent description of how our cells communicate both within and between each other. This communication starts with a stem cell and causes each cell to modify itself into a type of cell (e.g. blood, skin, liver, heart). Once a cell becomes a type like our nervous system all later communication and changes are within the constraints of those already made. Nervous system cells don’t communicate like blood cells. Our heart cells don’t suddenly become a cuticle cell and start growing fingernails. These epigenetic switches become permanent and influence the remaining life of the cell and its ancestors. Other epigenetic chatter changes a cell dynamically and can be adjusted to react to environmental changes. Hormones get released by one part of the body and can influence cells in another part. This chatter makes us who we are. It causes us first to be mammals, then humans, and then a unique individual.
March 6, 2012
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The University of Utah says that are environment causes our genes to be switched ON or OFF at critical times. This switching leads to most known diseases we suffer. The question is what is our environment? Most of us believe that toxins and smoking leads to these bad types of switches that can cause cancers. Does our environment include more? Yes it does! The University of Utah says: “The genome dynamically responds to the environment. Stress, diet, behavior, toxins and other factors activate chemical switches that regulate gene expression.”
August 24, 2011
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Learn.Genetics at the University of Utah says each of our cells communicate with each other and change their processing based on signals they receive from the environment. These signals come in the form of diet, stress, behavior, and toxins. Yesterdays BLOG discussed how stress can cause our cells to focus on the stress even at the cost of our immune system. The environment is yelling at us and it causes us to change in response to it. How are you changing? What kind of memory are your cells storing? There can be no doubt now that these influences cause us to be healthy and happy or sick and depressed. Just like children turn out to be what their parents taught them, our cells turn out to be what the environment has taught them. Rules to live by: 1) Avoid toxins, 2) Lower stress levels, 3) Eat healthy foods, and 4) think positive and believe in yourself. These four rules will keep you healthy, strong and happy.
June 13, 2011
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Biology, cancer, Cancer cell, Cell (biology), DNA, epigenetic, epigenetics diet belief thinking social, epigenome, Gene, Humans, Life, University of Utah, well being
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Our reproductive system is made up of cells that also react to epigenetic changes. These changes can be reproduced in the female’s egg or males sperm and passed onto the next generation. When a female is pregnant, she has her own cells switching ON/OFF as well as the new fetus’ cells reacting to the same signals. It doesn’t stop here because the fetus has reproduction cells that will form the grandchildren that are also reacting to the epigenetic changes. See how this works at The University of Utah’s website.
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