@Mark,
Ik kwam een mooie post tegen over epigenetics, oorspronkelijk gepost op de Adult Metal Chelation group:
We know now that how well a child is loved can affect the way the child’s genes are turned on or off. Cancer genes can get turned on and cancer preventing ones turned off especially with age. Bullying can be detrimental to best gene expression. So this raises the issue of liking oneself and having a positive attitude.
If you are bullying yourself, how is that any different than if others do it? If you look at life negatively, aren’t you making a less optimal living environment? If you look on life more brightly aren’t you making your environment better? Perception is reality. Perception is more optimal gene control.
If heavy metals are making methylation maintenance of DNA difficult (keeping bad genes turned off), then one would expect the influence of our perceptions of life and interactions on epigenetic changes would be accentuated because of the toxic load of heavy metals. Plus we have other toxins. Food intolerances. Sleep disruption from chelation. We have more than enough stresses (and a lack of cortisol to cope) to be getting on with.
So our spiritual state and mental outlook will affect what genes are turned on or remain off. We might even reverse past epigenetic changes. (A hopeful thought that may be self-prophetic!) Changes are not all irreversible. Just taking the load of care off our shoulders may affect how fast and how well we recover. Just having a social group like this, where we are not treated as mental defectives or shirkers, is a relief that can have healing benefits or at least slow undesired changes in genes if we are understanding the research correctly.
We found out we are in part what happened to our parents and grandparents, not just the genetic code we share. We knew we are what we eat. We are learning that we are in part what we think and feel. Knowledge is power. A lighter heart is a healthier heart. Do not ignore your spiritual health. It is tied to your long term physical health. What would have been thought as ridiculous superstition in the recent past, is now being shown to have a real mechanism affecting our lives.
Laugh, love, live.
Interessante post!
"We are what we think and feel."
So true!