Your Genes Are Not Your Destiny!

What genes are

'The cells of living beings contain chromosomes, which are recognized as the bearers of inheritable information. Chromosomes contain a double helix of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and protein. DNA is a long series of units called nucleotides. It is believed that DNA makes RNA (ribonucleic acid), which differs from DNA in chemical composition. RNA translates the information coded in the DNA and prompts the specific development of various proteins in the body.

Genes are stretches of DNA on the chromosome, and they may be thousands of nucleotide units in length. Gene splicing, or genetic engineering, consists of snipping one (or more) genes out of the DNA of one organism and splicing it into the DNA of another organism, much like film or sound tapes are spliced to re-arrange the sequence of images or sound.'


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Genes Are Not Fate. They Do Not Determine Our Medical Lives.

'Study upon study upon study has been coming out proclaiming a newly discovered gene that causes (fill in the blank) disease. Women who've been informed that they carry the breast cancer gene rush to have double mastectomies to prevent cancer. Since the genome project was started, we've been inundated with news stories about potential cures for diseases based on our genetic heritage, and we've been convinced that our genes are our fate. If we believe that, then we believe that we have absolutely no options in our destiny—and that is utter nonsense.

The traditional understanding of genes is that they're the primary inheritable information—the basic units of what defines us. If you're convinced that's all we are—bits of protoplasm born into the world with predestined traits that determine our physical and mental makeup, carrying us to a predetermined end—then you're accepting a concept that's designed to push you into taking drugs and having medical procedures, because that theory assumes that there's no choice in what happens to you.'

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The Future Of Disease Prevention May Not Depend On Your Genes But Upon Ways To Turn Them On And Off

By Dr. Mercola


'The new field of epigenetics has shown that the choice of which of your genes are "expressed," or activated, is strongly affected by environmental influences.

This means that expression of your genes can change, and they are influenced by external factors.

One implication of this is that many health problems -- ranging from cancer to cardiovascular disease to neurological disorders -- can be caused at least in part by altered "histone modifications," which affect DNA.'




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