Control Your Genes
Naked Multiple Sclerosis proves how the origins of MS are rooted in your beliefs, thoughts, feelings and emotions. These in turn influence your genes. Not the other way round.
However, the more Conventional medical view is that MS is caused by a complex interplay of 
bacterial, genetic and environmental factors and that one has a ‘disposition’ to MS.
The Conventional genetic ‘explanation’ goes like this......
Is MS Genetic?
Many experts claim that that certain genetic combinations increase the likelihood of a person developing MS.
For example. recent research by Margaret Pericak-Vance, MD, director of the Center for Human Genetics at Duke University in Durham, N.C. [1] shows how a cluster of genes on chromosome 6 may play the major role in causing the disorder. The genes pinpointed on chromosome 6 are known as major histocompatibility complex genes which, Pericak-Vance says are:
“Genes that play a critical role in helping the body to distinguish its own cells
from outside invaders such as bacteria or other microbes.
If the system breaks down, the immune system may attack your body’s own cells, as happens in MS.”
Another researcher, Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D. [2], says that a person’s chances of developing MS increase if he or she has a relative with MS. Your chances of developing MS are:
- 1 in 1,000 if you have no relatives with MS
- 1 in 100 if you have a second-degree relative (grandparent, aunt, uncle, etc.) with MS
- 1 in 40 if you have a parent or sibling with MS
- 1 in 4 if your identical twin has MS
What do you think?
The purpose of this blog is not to debate the genetic causes or origins of MS. I have made my stance clear on that.
The key point I want to raise is that irrespective of your genes, you can change them!
How?
With your own beliefs, thoughts, feelings and emotions!
As I show in Core: Relationships - 1.3 How Emotional Suppression, Negative Emotions and Loneliness Affect Your Health you are not ‘stuck’ with who you are!
You Can Control Your Genes!
In the book by Dawson Church: “The Genie in Your Genes”, Dawson shows how beliefs, thoughts and emotions can trigger the expression of specific DNA strands called Early Genes or IEGs. This is covered in more detail at Core: Relationships.
These Early Genes turn on other genes that affect specific aspects of our immune system, such as the production of white blood cells that destroy attacking bacteria and viruses.
By taking control of your beliefs, thoughts and feelings, you can greatly influence your genetic expression.
You can ‘genetically engineer’ your own body and avoid expensive therapy, harmful drugs and invasive surgeries.
The science behind this fascinating discovery is called Epi-genetics.
Epi-genetics simplified
According to the science of epi-genetics it is the expression of your genes - not the genes themselves - that dictates whether you will develop certain diseases, and how gracefully you may show your age.
These patterns of gene expression are governed by the cellular material - the epigenome - that sits on top of the genome, just outside it (hence the prefix epi-, which means above).
It is these epigenetic ‘marks’ that tell your genes to switch on or off. Through epigenetic marks, environmental factors like diet, stress and prenatal nutrition can make an imprint on genes which are passed from one generation to the next.
So, for example, although you may have a genetic ‘predisposition’ for a large waist, you are not necessarily doomed to develop a huge pot belly during middle-age. That will depend on how you influence your genes via your lifestyle:..... stress, diet, attitude, exercise, emotions etc.
Can you see the staggering potential of this?
For decades, we have stumbled around massive Darwinian roadblocks. We thought that DNA was an ironclad code that we and our children and their children had to live by. Now we can imagine a world in which we can tinker with DNA.
Now that we realize that our fate is not sealed at the twining of our double helix, and that we can change our genetics, and therefore our health......Celebrate OR Beware!
See it’s like this.....
Destroy or Delight Your Genes
You can improve or damage your genetics.
In fact, you are changing your genetics every second by the lifestyle choices you make: the foods you eat, the air you breathe, your beliefs thoughts and feelings.
You are the ‘caretaker’ of your genetic roadmap. Therefore the epigenetic changes you make can be passed down for many generations. Each of us has far greater responsibility than we ever imagined!
Epigenetic ‘malleability’ helps to explain why identical twins become distinct as they age.
Why does one identical twin develop cancer and the other remain healthy when they have identical DNA? Why does one twin become obese and another remain lean?
The answer lies in the methyl groups in the epigenome overlying the DNA molecule.
As you age, your genome does not change but your epigenome changes dramatically, especially during critical periods of life, such as adolescence. It is influenced by physical and emotional stresses: how you respond to everything that happens in your environment, from climate change to childhood abuse.
When a gene is turned off epigenetically, the DNA has usually been ‘methylated’.
When methyl groups adhere to a segment of DNA, they inhibit the gene’s response. Methylation-gone-wrong is now suspected in autism, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
You do not manifest disease merely by a defective gene, but by your epigenome. In other words, whether or not you develop disease is determined by how your genome is being directed to express itself. There are also ‘master genes’ that can switch on and off clusters of other genes.
Scientists have discovered it is easier to make epigenetic changes than to fix damaged genes. Your epigenome is easier to mess up -- but it’s also easier to fix.
That’s good news: you aren’t doomed by bad genes!
Epigenetic therapy, which is essentially the curing of disease by epigenetic manipulation, involves changing the instructions to your cells: reactivating desirable genes and deactivating undesirable ones.
This emerging field, now in its infancy, may represent the future of medicine.
Mind Over Matter
Just as your epigenome controls the expression of disease -- your mind and emotions control your epigenome.
Therefore, your mind and emotions control your healing.
The science of epigenetics is now beginning to explain phenomena like placebo effect and spontaneous healing, which lacked a scientific basis until now.
Your mind has the power to create or cure disease because your thoughts affect your feelings and emotions, which in turn determine the expression of your genes.
Today’s ‘New Biology’ is overlapping with consciousness science and quantum physics, and it’s showing us that we have masterful control over our own lives.
Fascinating and exciting stuff!
References
- Click Here to learn more about the identification of a “Multiple Sclerosis Gene Cluster”.
- Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D explores the causes of MS including the role of genes in “The Causes of Multiple Sclerosis” at About.com.
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