Posts Tagged ‘gene expression’

Cancer is not from genes may be good news, depending on how much responsibility you want to take. The BRAC1 and BRAC2 mutations are an alarm that tells you there is danger. However, having a high-risk mutation surely doesn’t mean you will develop any type of cancer from the abnormality.

There are variables such as the influence of your lifestyle on the other genes that work together with this mutation. Variations of the BRCA!, BRAC2, CDH1, PTEN, STK11, and TP53 genes increase the risk of developing breast cancer. Also the AR, ATM, BARD1, BRIP1, CHEK2, DIRA53, ERBB2, NBN, PALB2,, RAD50 and RAD51 genes are associated with breast cancer.

As far as real research into the role of lifestyle and diet on the two most feared gene mutations BRAC1 and BRAC2 you will not find it. It hasn’t been done. Since the triggers for any cancer is a sum total of everything which either activates and stimulates the ability for cancer to develop and spread. 

As of yet, there has been no research on the role of diet and lifestyle on these two genes. The triggers for cancer are the sum total of a cascade of events that stimulate the initiation of this condition. Alcohol, sugar, lack of exercise, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, stress, environmental toxins are all things that contribute to both the formation of tumors, and the spread of cancer.

Let’s take alcohol which has a known link to the development of cancer. There are parts of alcohol which converts to a metabolite know as accetaldehyde. This is a molecule which causes cancer through different means. One way it does it is to bind to the DNA causing mutations which can initiate cancer.  Also, it produces reactive oxygen species (ROS), which leads to an inflammatory response which can promotes cancer formation.

When we talk about cancer without talking about antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, gluthathione, exercise, sunlight, barley grass juice, silymarin (milk thistle), chlorophlin, grape seed extract, resveraterol, calorie restriction with optimal nutrition and a comprehensive nutritional regimen along with stress reduction we on the wrong path.

It is critical that there is universal recognition on what supports healthy cell function. Without this understanding our response will be to remove and destroy anything which seems to be a threat of our health. Getting healthy is the answer to cancer, until science recognizes the synergistic action of a healthy lifestyle they will continue to cut, burn and poison patients as a way to bring about health.

It is a fact that lifestyle not genes predict aging.

British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester Professor Nilesh Samani, of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, who co-led the project explained that there are two forms of ageing – chronological aging i.e. how old you are in years and biological ageing whereby the cells of some individuals are older (or younger) than suggested by their actual age.

He said: “There is accumulating evidence that the risk of age-associated diseases including heart disease and some types of cancers are more closely related to biological rather than chronological age.

Aging

All of us age at different rates, and yes some people seem to age better. That is usually attributed to good genes. While that is not entirely wrong, there are a few factors to consider. Genes are turned on and off by lifestyle factors. Entering the world with good genes is nothing to sneeze at. Everyone, would like to be blessed with good genes.

However, the expression of these genes can be turned on or off by the way one lives. Chronological aging and biological aging can be on two different clocks. Age associated-diseases conditions are more closely related to biological aging than chronological.

Telomere Length

Individuals are born with telomeres of a certain length and in numerous cells telomeres become shorter as the cell divide and age. Telomere length is a marker for biological ageing.

The results of a recent study in JAMA suggested a link between inactivity and aging. They found the telomere length of individuals exercising with moderate to high intensity workouts of 199 plus minutes per week had telomere length of individuals 10 years younger than their sedentary counterpart.

Biological age should be lower then one’s chronological age.

Use It or Lose It

Use it or lose it has relevance in this study. Since diet and exercise are ways to stay biologically young, than taking care is survival 101. Genes aren’t your destiny. Your outlook, diet, and exercise routines may be the most important components in increasing both the length and quality of your life.

What I find amusing is that when people are trying to eat healthy they come up with every excuse possible on the planet not to. 

The Responses

One of my favorite is I will have no social life. Another good one, the holidays are coming. Then it goes on to the fact that it is time consuming.

If you evaluate the excuses they are more creative then the ingredient lists for a healthy diet.

Different Shades of Healthy

There is no denying that there is diverse opinion as to what constitutes the healthiest diet. There is no one ideal diet, because we are all unique. We are starting a new way of eating at different stages of our life, with different health challenges

Our needs change throughout life, and to get real benefits what you eat has to benefit you.

Natural Products

This is real test of any diet. This is not a Sara Lee diet; it is a diverse set of ingredients that are increasingly more in tune with nature. Good diet solutions deal with individual needs. Just like no fingerprints are exactly the same so our needs differ.

As you adopt a natural food diet the whole transcript changes. Terms like organic, paleo, and plant food have the credentials to get up close with our lips.

Selling What You Really Need

Our market place has given rise to companies telling you what you need. You can see for yourself that this is agreeable to their bottom line. In fact it is clinically proven that the rise in processed food had been our downfall.

What you avoid is as important as what you buy. Consumer understanding is what has led to the successes of the food industry. They say they made food safer, cleaner, and nutritious. What they did is understand our psyche and marketed well.

I Don’t Think So

For years marketers and supplies have produced chemical specialties that end up in your stomach. As they research new formulations they do it with an attitude of what is next now. They have created excitement with new products that will expand your appetite. They have developed new products to enter the market that will create buzz. They are ambitiously rolling out convenience, hype, and addictive tastes that will fly off the store selves.

What Works

What distinguishes fresh products vs. developed ones is the fact that you cannot replace natural vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients with artificial substitutes. It is estimated that 85% of the food grown in the U.S. is mineral depleted due to pesticides and insecticides.

Organic only means that all the toxic man made chemicals are not used. Avoiding harm means that the consumer objectives have to be all together different from the companies that are manufacturing our food supply.

There is strong evidence that shows cellular damage from a diet made up with fabricated food.  

You’re Choice

Eating healthy means different things to different people. The natural food advocates are as diverse as they come. They advocate the raw food diet, the green blended smoothies, the high protein diet, the fruitarian diet, and macrobiotic diet. Each of these groups differs among themselves. Every group has helped people overcome some serious health challenges. 

They all are effective in many ways. All of them provide solutions by supplying micronutrients. Contrary to all the dogma there is no one source of nutrients. All these eating plans supply a solution to a man made diet.

Good eating is not over-complicated; the issue is to find the best one for us individually.

The Theory

There is a belief that genes are affected by our family tree. It shows that even though we are all connected, we all are different. This may explain why what makes one person able to manage their weight will not work for others.

Technological breakthroughs can now find the body’s message that clues science into our individual makeup. When we have this blueprint we can soar to new heights. There is a system that delivers this. It takes the best of a low grain diet, adds the right plant based foods, while including the optimal source of protein for us. This is the Metabolic Balance way to health.

For me, I needed something more than either a vegetarian, raw food, fruitarian, or high protein diet. Having done them all for a substantial amount of time, I needed a system that I knew would deliver. Every way of eating naturally offers something, but all are generic versions of someone else’s way of eating. What is needed is an individual foundation to build your own healthy lifestyle.

The expression of your genes is dependent on your environment. By adapting a healthy lifestyle you can take charge of your health and weight. This is the best health insurance.