Should YOU Panic If Your Parents Had Cancer?

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Ever since 1953 when they discovered DNA they have ascribed all kinds of

properties to DNA but we need to kind of clear up a few things because we've been

told that DNA causes this and DNA does this and so forth but we have to

understand what DNA is so when you were first conceived when the sperm meets the

egg you are given a certain combination of genes and that's called your genotype

that one you can't do anything about because it is what it is it determines a

lot about you determines eye color and hair color and straight or curly hair if

you have long or short limbs etc but there's another part that is called

phenotype and this is how you express those genes so someone who works out a

lot is going to develop more muscle than someone who doesn't so even though the

genes code for muscles you're not going to express the genes the same way if you

work out versus if you don't and the same thing holds true for just about

everything that happens in the body so a cancer doesn't just happen it develops

based on if you have a certain combination or amount of promoters and

triggers and stressors and we want to think of this as a body burden so for

example if you smoke if you drink if you eat junk food if you have nutritional

deficiencies if you're angry all the time you just rest all the time all of

those things are body burdens those are stressors that they accumulate

and they they contribute to make up your total body burden

and then some people say oh well it doesn't work like that I knew somebody

who smoked and drank all their life and they lived perfect health to a hundred

and yes it's true we are all different but what the genes give us is a certain

capacity to resist things a certain capacity to adapt and compensate so if

you're born with this much ability to cope and compensate then you can get

away with a lot of stuff whereas if you have born with this much ability to

compensate then you can't get away with quite so much and if you have this much

of a body burden and you just do a few more bad things then something's going

to come crashing down and you'll develop something bad like maybe a cancer or

maybe a heart disease or something else so when we talk about DNA we want to

understand that it's a blueprint it's like a recipe book it holds information

on how to do certain things but a recipe book doesn't cook dinner and DNA doesn't

do anything it holds information and it's waiting for something to trigger it

to express it to read it so the environment is what exposes the cell to

certain signals and these signals affect certain receptors on the cell membrane

that causes certain messengers to go in and start affecting the nucleus and

trigger the DNA to do certain things the DNA doesn't do them it is being

triggered to do things the DNA doesn't make decisions or take initiative okay

it's the environment and the circumstances the total body burden that

determines how that gene is going to be expressed so while you can't do much

about how much you're born with you can do a lot about how much body burden you

have so if you reduce your body burden by eating better food by getting better

sleep by meditating reducing your stress just improving your

overall lifestyle then you can have a lesser ability a lesser capacity for

health and still have good health because you lessen the total body burden

so there's a lot of misunderstandings and misconceptions and a big contributor

to that is that there's a lot of people who can benefit from you not

understanding because if you buy in to the idea that genetics cause things then

your only hope is to put your faith in the hands of people who can affect genes

pharmaceutical companies and researchers who can spend a lot of money and come up

with expensive (medicine) solutions (that don't solve the issue) and if you buy into that then you're a victim then

you're in their hands on the other hand if you understand that cancer doesn't

cause anything but it influences things and that you have a lot of choice in how

the environment is going to influence that then you can take charge you have

the power back in your own hands one of my favorite examples is when they found

The Hangover gene and they said if you have this gene then boy are you gonna

have some bad hangovers but they forgot the main point that you

still have to get drunk to get a hangover if you don't get drunk don't

worry about having that gene same thing if there's certain breast cancer genes

that say oh you'll have a 25% chance of getting breast cancer with this gene

then 75% of people with that gene don't get it because the difference is how is

that gene being expressed another thing to understand about cancers is that they

often start with a mutation but that you have an immune system that can clean up

that bad cell that miscreated cell and if you have a strong immune system your

body is going to do that all the time every

day and from the time that you get that mutated cell

it usually takes 15-20 years before that cancer growth is detectable so you have

a lot of time to clean up your lifestyle and assist your body in correcting the

problem so your best bet is to start doing something about it today

now regardless of how old you are the younger you are the better it is the

time to start doing something because the sooner you start the less likely

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