BREAKTHROUGH: The food you eat determines which genes get activated or suppressed, controlling disease vs. health throughout your life (the Health Ranger was right!)

Thursday, March 10, 2016
By Paul Martin

by: Harold Shaw
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Everyone says you are what you eat, but, for some reason, the majority of the world’s population seems completely oblivious to this fact. Yet pure science and simple experiments have managed to definitively prove what naturopaths have been saying for centuries: What you eat changes you, down to your very DNA. As it turns out, our diet can influence what genes are more active or suppressed. Basically, it can determine whether genes associated with conditions like obesity, type 2 diabetes or heart disease are hyperactive or functioning within parameters.

It’s particularly easy to ignore that our diets directly affect our health when the foods around us taste so good. General practitioners who don’t take food into consideration when treating their patients certainly don’t make it any easier. In this context, new studies that point to the relevance of food in connection to our DNA are an essential step forward.

We don’t even know the half of it

The nutrients that the human body receives in utero, as well as the ones it feeds on after being born, invariably affect our genes. The prevalent opinion is that our genes determine how nutrients are broken down and then absorbed by cells. Scientists thought that all information other than the pure genome is deleted when a new embryo is formed. However, in 2013, when the human DNA was completely mapped, a lot of variables were still missing. This much was clear because the genome on its own could not explain all of the physiological processes we are currently familiar with.

Obviously, more things were going on with our genome than we were able to see. Until now, the separate field of epigenetics was associated with the changes that our DNA undergoes as a result of outside forces, i.e. our diet or the environment we live in. The separation of the fields was necessary because scientists thought that the genome itself does not change – only its surroundings do. Now, evidence shows that the characteristics of these surroundings, chemicals and enzymes, can irrevocably affect our bodies as they develop.

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