Study finds healthy lifestyle changes triggers genetic changes
Tuesday June 17, 2008
Categories: Health
We think our genes are set in stone but it turns out that they can be impacted by our lifestyle.Comprehensive lifestyle changes including a better diet and more exercise can lead not only to a better physique, but also to...
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What is this terror of taking medications for the rest of one's life? As a kidney transplant recipient, I must take 3 medications every day (2 of them twice a day) "for the rest of my life" or as long as the kidney functions. When it stops functioning, either I will die or go on life support --- dialysis.
Many people take a vitamin every day. What is so inconvenient about that?
If the diet and weight loss had not been enough to lower your husband's blood pressure, what choice would you have made then?
Michelle, it's pretty obvious you didn't give up a career in biochemistry to start blogging, but you may be interested that this belief that actions cause change at the genetic level was the basis of Soviet biological science during Lenin and Stalin's time. It's resurfacing now among cell-level healers who use their psychic powers to change individual cells. One of the people who inspired this movement (although he works with past-life regression), Brian Weiss, was just on Oprah last month.
That being said, glad to hear of your husband's weight loss success, and hope he keeps it off.
"What is this terror of taking medications for the rest of one's life? As a kidney transplant recipient, I must take 3 medications every day (2 of them twice a day) "for the rest of my life" or as long as the kidney functions. When it stops functioning, either I will die or go on life support --- dialysis."
I bet if there was a way for you to avoid taking it, you would. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with taking unavoidable medicine, I'm saying if you could avoid it with diet and exercise why not do it? It makes sense.
"If the diet and weight loss had not been enough to lower your husband's blood pressure, what choice would you have made then?"
Obviously, he would have taken the medicine but that wasn't the point I was making.
"Michelle, it's pretty obvious you didn't give up a career in biochemistry to start blogging,"
Rob, it's pretty obvious that you don't have a clue what it means to blog.
Genes - the sequence of nucleotides in our DNA that encode proteins and RNA - aren't really being changed, only their levels of expression.
Gene expression is fluid and in some cells can change in minutes. That aspect has never been 'set in stone'. If it were, we'd never bulk up muscles through exercise.
And Michelle, what does it mean to blog? You cut and paste parts of articles that cast aspersions on a man you hate? Do you do contribute anything at all?
I've managed to acquire about 4 million readers for my own conventionally published works, not counting translations into German, Russian, Spanish, and Hindi, so although I may not be a blogger, I do know a thing or two about publishing. I have a feeling you're about to get some lessons, yourself. I suggest you might consider whether it is time to allow the other chicks to take over for you, and whether you might ask Beliefnet to remove all your posts.
"Comprehensive lifestyle" anything should include "The Gay Lifestyle" (TM) or else you aren't the right wing hack we all think you are. don't all religious/self-righteous/pious believe in The Gay Lifestyle" (TM) anymore? Your article is SO incomplete without referencing it. It just feels empty, devoid of any reality the RRR usually paints the "lifestyle" topic with.
"cast aspersions on a man you hate"
I don't hate anyone.
Tiggers? I think you mean triggers.
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