Epigenetics:
How our environment affects our DNA |
Our Epigenetic mechanisms interact with our environment to turn on and to off our DNA. It allows us to adapt quickly, as a species, to our world without changing our genetic code. It is sort of like a chain that tightens and loosens its grip on our DNA, either activating or silencing our genetic code.
Our environment interacts with our DNA in many ways and we are learning to use these ways to enhance our health.
We can help you change:
Nutrition
What we eat can have positive or negative affects on the way both adults and children use their DNA.
While pregnant, a mother's nutrition influences her fetus' epigenetic health. Poor maternal eating habits can lead to obesity, type 2 diabetes, mental disorders, anxiety and depression in her child.
Even as adults, we can use epigenetics to tune up the replication of our DNA and bring our bodies back to wellness.
Social interactions
Social interactions alter how our DNA is copied, affecting how we make the things our bodies need to maintain health.
Nurturing or not nurturing your infant can have lasting affects on his or her levels of anxiety or calmness, depression or joy, and even tendencies towards suicide.
Nurturing relationships help to increase our natural opium-like factors (endorphins), and our reward (dopamine), calming (serotonin), and falling in love (oxytocin) hormones. Good relationships can turn on factors that help our brains grow.
Activities
Having fun, exercising, and learning new things can activate our epigenetic mechanisms, inducing our neurons to make more connections to make us brighter and keep our brains healthy. By turning on brain derived neurotrophic factor, exercise, laughing and learning can increase cognitive functioning and memory.
Stress levels
Stress can turn off the parts of our DNA that keep us from getting tumors and inflammation. Learning to control stress, worry, and anxiety (yes, they are all different) will enable your body to activate your immune and digestive systems, returning your body to optimal health. Sleep is a huge part of handling stress and natural sleep cycles are important to the hormones that control fat burning and satiation.
Exposure to toxins
Plastics, heavy metals, molds, and chemicals can manipulate your DNA and increase your chances of DNA copying mistakes and cancers. Knowing what to stay away from will help you to maintain health and to return to wholeness. Our livers have enough to do just getting rid of the toxins in our bodies without overloading them with additives, preservatives, and other everyday items that are on the menu at many fast food places and in most boxes of processed foods.
Our environment interacts with our DNA in many ways and we are learning to use these ways to enhance our health.
We can help you change:
Nutrition
What we eat can have positive or negative affects on the way both adults and children use their DNA.
While pregnant, a mother's nutrition influences her fetus' epigenetic health. Poor maternal eating habits can lead to obesity, type 2 diabetes, mental disorders, anxiety and depression in her child.
Even as adults, we can use epigenetics to tune up the replication of our DNA and bring our bodies back to wellness.
Social interactions
Social interactions alter how our DNA is copied, affecting how we make the things our bodies need to maintain health.
Nurturing or not nurturing your infant can have lasting affects on his or her levels of anxiety or calmness, depression or joy, and even tendencies towards suicide.
Nurturing relationships help to increase our natural opium-like factors (endorphins), and our reward (dopamine), calming (serotonin), and falling in love (oxytocin) hormones. Good relationships can turn on factors that help our brains grow.
Activities
Having fun, exercising, and learning new things can activate our epigenetic mechanisms, inducing our neurons to make more connections to make us brighter and keep our brains healthy. By turning on brain derived neurotrophic factor, exercise, laughing and learning can increase cognitive functioning and memory.
Stress levels
Stress can turn off the parts of our DNA that keep us from getting tumors and inflammation. Learning to control stress, worry, and anxiety (yes, they are all different) will enable your body to activate your immune and digestive systems, returning your body to optimal health. Sleep is a huge part of handling stress and natural sleep cycles are important to the hormones that control fat burning and satiation.
Exposure to toxins
Plastics, heavy metals, molds, and chemicals can manipulate your DNA and increase your chances of DNA copying mistakes and cancers. Knowing what to stay away from will help you to maintain health and to return to wholeness. Our livers have enough to do just getting rid of the toxins in our bodies without overloading them with additives, preservatives, and other everyday items that are on the menu at many fast food places and in most boxes of processed foods.