Blame or Responsibility?

Anytime I run across something that changes the way we think about something, I find it exciting.  Just when we are comfortable with "Well, it's in my genes." as an excuse for ANYthing, be it disease, having a lousy dispostion or habit, being fat or just blaming everything on your parents (yay, this is good news for parents!) epigenetics comes along.  If you are one of those people who uses your genes as an excuse for anything, be prepared right now to think again, and take the responsibility (ouch) that you probably have more control over your gene expression than previously thought.

Epigenetics has been around for more than twenty years.  The validity of the research and study has brought this addition to our understanding of human biology.  I recently read an article in Time Magazine that is almost a word for word account of a lecture I heard on epigenetics from the notes I took. 
Epigenetics, which is above genetic control, is about how environmental information and our perceptions control our genes.  Bruce Lipton says we can change our environment AND perceptions thereby we can change our genes.  We are not victims of our genes but masters!

In biochemistry it is scientifically proven that environment and perception change chemical structures.  So we really do have more control over gene expression that ever.  With that knowledge of course, comes responsibility.  Thoughts and perceptions are huge.  Proper nutrition is critical.
The way we respond to the world can kill our cells or replicate unhealthy cells.  Stress dibiliates our cells.  That, in turn, affects the epigenetic markers atop your DNA. 

There is power in knowledge.  What we do and think today can either have a good result (health and longevity) or a bad result (symptoms, disease, early death).  Lipton says only 10% of disease is actually genetic.  That leaves 90% of disease stemming from environment and how things are perceived.  90%! 

DNA from us is passed along to our children.  Did we give them junk DNA or something they could actually benefit from?  For most of us with kids already, the question is moot.  However, if we are desirous of longevity, being healthy and strong as we age so that our future years aren't spent in hospital, time to kick it in gear, isn't it?

Researchers and scientists in biochemistry and cellular nutrition insist that to a great extent, nurturing our cellular health, keeping the immune system in top order and learning to de-stress have a huge impact on how gene expression is activated - or not.  This gives hope - as well as giving one more reason to pay attention not only to our environment, but what we feed ourselves.  Lifestyle choices can change the epigenetic marks atop your DNA. 

There is ALWAYS a reason to pay attention to what we eat, and our lifestyle choices.  This is but one of them.  It should empower us to make healthy choices - anything that empowers is good stuff!  To read more about epigenetics, you can read   The Biology of Belief – Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles or  The Wisdom of Your Cells - How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology, both by Bruce Lipton.  Or look up Epigenetics on the web.

If you don't have time to conduct your own research to validate for yourself that all this "new stuff" is, indeed, the real deal............
If you want to seriously get involved and commited to your OWN better health and longevity..........
And if you need a speed program from me on how to do this................

Here is my best (quickest?) advice:
Open your heart and mind, breathe more deeply, delete stories and excuses so your thinking is clean and clear of old garbage, and do not EAT garbage.  Know that YOU have the power, more than you probably ever realized, to affect the entire rest of your life. 

Happy Cells = Happy Life!