David Steinman
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 Donald Malins, PhD, says the human body's dna responds almost instantly to chemical assaults. Using techniques to view the structures of the cells' genes in fine detail, we now know that dna is hardly the Eiffel Tower scientists once thought.
"Instead, what we're seeing is a molecule in a dynamic state of damage and repair, undergoing constant change. Rather than thinking of dna as a rigid structure . . . dna is more like a chemical chameleon, constantly altering its fine structure in response to changes in the cellular environment. It's a whole new way to look at dna. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's your dna. Doctors always talk about dna as providing a blueprint for disease, which is hogwash. They never tell you about how your dna actually is designed to keep you at a perfect point of health. That's the whole point of the dna -- to pass on a blueprint that lets you survive and reproduce. That's basic science, folks. How on earth can doctors think that dna passed down through hundreds of thousands of generations could have a gene that would cause heart disease? That's ridiculous. |
David Steinman
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| Rather than thinking of dna as a rigid structure . . . dna is more like a chemical chameleon, constantly altering its fine structure in response to changes in the cellular environment. It's a whole new way to look at dna."
Doing a simple thing like putting good food on your table could lead to something really good for your body's dna.
Alexandra Ramdin of Seattle was the mother of two young daughters ages two and five when her family took part in a University of Washington study of Seattle area preschoolers to determine if consuming organic foods truly reduced children's pesticide exposures. |
Dan Buettner
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 This is not true for two small pieces of our DNA: the Y chromosome, inherited from male to male (the females do not have it), and the mitochondrial dna, inherited from female to female (the males do have it, but they cannot pass it to their offspring). This peculiarity makes it much easier to trace back the history of a population through the female (in the case of mitochondrial dna) or male (Y chromosome) to its founding ancestors. Using dna, we've traced every human being on Earth back to founding female lineages. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But genuine, curious scientists who are true enough to their own hearts to take a leap of faith at believing in the symphony of nature will find something far different in human dna. They will find poetry, symmetry, harmonics... and a song of life that, if truly understood, would humble even the most brilliant among us.
You see, this year's discovery of widespread variability in the genetic code -- and gene copies, and missing genes -- is not something to be viewed as a way to sell more drugs. That view is childish. It is insulting to nature herself. This discovery is far more profound. |
| Fingerprints aren't built with cellular bricks, they're built with repeating patterns that give us strong clues about the true structure of our dna.
(Fractal geometry is also the dominant form of physical structure in nature, by the way. In fact, it was the study of plant leaves and mollusk shells that led to the discovery of fractal geometry.)
Throughout the human body, from the lining of the cells of the stomach to the structure of the eye, you find patterns that go way beyond mere construction blueprints. |
| Researching dna is a lot like researching astronomy: the more we learn, the less we realize we know. It's as if every newly discovered fact unveils the existence of ten new questions we never knew existed.
The mainstream media, in its usual limited view, is reporting this discovery as a breakthrough that will help scientists develop new drugs to treat disease. Every "Eureka!" moment having anything to do with the genetic code seems to lead the mainstream media to the same advertiser-pleasing conclusion, but they haven't even begun to realize the big story here. |
| Even if we understood everything about dna, we would still lack the big picture unless we also understood epigenetic factors -- and most old-school researchers and Western scientists don't even believe in epigenetic factors, adhering to the outdated point of view that genes alone control everything, and that all disease is predetermined, with environmental factors having little or no effect. |
| And just as a novel is more than the sum of its words, a human being is more than the accounting of her dna. Let me give you a simple example to make this all more apparent.
In the paragraph below, each word represents a gene. What is this paragraph trying to say? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It should also serve as a reminder to us all, teaching us to act with extreme caution when we're considering playing God with human dna. Of course, it's not just human dna that should concern us; it's also the dna of the plants that feed our world. I think that human civilization will someday have a huge price to pay for relying on genetically-engineered crops like GM soybeans and GM corn while ignoring the tremendous importance of agricultural biodiversity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Epigenetic factors are inherited, too, and passed from one generation to the next, meaning that if one woman suffers from chronic nutritional deficiencies when she conceives a child, the detrimental side effects of that nutritional deficiency will be passed down through multiple generations (at least four generations, according to Pottenger, but perhaps as many as seven according to others).
So dna is not the only archive of information that's passed from mother to child. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Of course, it's not just human dna that should concern us; it's also the dna of the plants that feed our world. I think that human civilization will someday have a huge price to pay for relying on genetically-engineered crops like GM soybeans and GM corn while ignoring the tremendous importance of agricultural biodiversity. The very idea of allowing corporations to patent and "own" the dna of seeds used to grow staple food crops is, in my view, a crime against nature that will only lead to disaster. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Doctors always talk about dna as providing a blueprint for disease, which is hogwash. They never tell you about how your dna actually is designed to keep you at a perfect point of health. That's the whole point of the dna -- to pass on a blueprint that lets you survive and reproduce. That's basic science, folks. How on earth can doctors think that dna passed down through hundreds of thousands of generations could have a gene that would cause heart disease? That's ridiculous. They must not know anything at all about natural selection, because if someone caries a gene that kills them, guess what? |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 It also may increase the activity of dna ligase. This enzyme cuts damaged ends off strands of dna and increases the cells capacity to repair itself. Damage caused by any carcinogenic factor, such as radiation or chemicals is, as a result, neutralized or counteracted.
Jacobson and Jacobson hypothesized that this is why niacin can protect against cancer. They illustrated this by treating two groups of human cells with carcinogens. The group given adequate niacin developed tumors at a rate of only 10% of that seen in what was deficient in niacin. Dr M. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Cells grow, replicate their dna, then divide and start the cycle over again. By slowing the life cycle, you get fewer mistakes in dna replication. It's like slowing down an assembly line to prevent mistakes. The more mistakes that are made, the more likely a cell will transform into a cancer cell. In addition, slowing things down allows factors that promote normal differentiation and specialization to assert their effects on a cell. In this way, your cells develop appropriately. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 NF kappaB goes to the dna of the cell and tells the dna what proteins to make to fight the stress so that the cell can survive. This is a complex activity, one we are only beginning to understand. For example, if it is a chemical stress, the cell has to figure out how to deactivate or detoxify the chemical before its gets stuck to the dna and induces mutation. If it is a viral stress, the cell has to figure out how to kill the virus before it kills the cell.
Exactly what the cell should do to defend itself is commanded by NF kappaB. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Clearly, it is essential to maintain high enough levels of the enzyme poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) to repair damaged dna. It is not for nothing that this enzyme is called the guardian of the genome. Niacin deficiency decreases PARP activity and so limits dna damage repair, increasing the chance of developing cancer.
An association between niacin deficiency and cancer has been shown in populations eating low-protein corn diets in Italy and South Africa and in some provinces of China. Tissues vary in their sensitivity to low niacin. Bone marrow is most sensitive. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| We know that vitamin D slows a cell's life cycle, which is good because this means that the D lets fewer cells replicate their dna and divide. Your cells make fewer errors because they have the time and the resources to correct their few errors.
The problem is, cells have a limited capacity to fix those errors in dna replication. In part, vitamin D controls the genes and enzymes that can repair errors. Further, if errors slip past your body's quality-control officers, vitamin D may help to ensure that the bad parts or defective cells are destroyed, as a last-ditch form of quality control. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Bl2 (Cobalamin)
Manufacture of dna and RNA in nuclei of cells, and in substance covering nerves.
Eggs, liver, fish, oysters, meat.
Folate (Folic acid)
Manufacture of red and while blood cells and dna. Important for growth.
Yeast, liver, dark green leafy vegetables, wheatgerm.
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Involved in growth and maintenance of connective tissue, blood vessels, bones and teeth, also in manufacture of hormones. Assists wound healing and is antioxidant.
Many fruits and vegetables, especially citrus, tomato, capsicum, broccoli, strawberries, guava, potato, blackcurrants. |
Devra Davis
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 Sunlight, oxygen, and other naturally occurring hazards continually assault that complex acid that sits in the center of all living cells and makes us alive—our dna. Whether mammals or fish, we inherit genes from our parents. Slivers of complex helical chains of dna can fix or worsen damage that comes about just from being alive. Genes tell cells when to die, when to get fixed, and how to mesh with other signals in the body. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 The proof is in our dna: the human genome sequence is more than 99.9 percent the same in all people. However, that 0.1 percent difference is all it takes for some of us to be healthy and others ill, some tall and others short, some quick-witted and others dull.
While dna codes our behaviors and physical functions, it is not at the heart of what makes each of us unique. Our dna is only as good as the transport system it creates for the transmission of information. That system relies on electricity. Just as you need a battery to start your car, the human body relies on electricity to stay alive. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Normally the body can stabilize free radicals on its own, but if antioxidants are unavailable in one's diet or if free radical production becomes excessive, damage can occur, and can be especially profound on proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids (RNA and dna). Cells possess DNA-repair enzymes that replace nucleotide (abbreviated by A, C, T, G) pairs, but it becomes an increasingly uphill battle as we age. The damage that free radicals inflict on our microscopic building blocks compromises cell function, organ function, and potentially the functioning of major body systems. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 QUINOLONES
First introduced in the 1980s, the quinolone antibiotics, which include drugs like Cipro, inhibit dna gyrase, an enzyme needed for bacterial dna replication and therefore bacterial-cell replication. Quinolones are used for lower-respiratory-tract infections, especially in the treatment of infections caused by methicillin-sensitive or -resistant staphylococci, Pseu-domonas, and intracellular organisms.
The first generation of quinolones, which include nalidixic acid (Neg-Gram) and cinoxacin (Cinobac), are used for uncomplicated urinary tract infections. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| In the case of human insulin, the process —not the product—was the patentable feature, since no one had synthesized a human hormone from dna modified E. coli bacteria. In the case of new analogs (hormones) of human insulin, the chemical (hormone) produced by E. coli gene technology is patentable.
E. coli versus Yeast
After the process to produce human insulin through rDNA modified E. coli cultures was patented, another process was patented using genetically modified yeast cells that also produced a biosynthetic human insulin hormone. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| NF kappaB goes to the dna of the cell and tells the dna what proteins to make to fight the stress so that the cell can survive. This is a complex activity, one we are only beginning to understand. For example, if it is a chemical stress, the cell has to figure out how to deactivate or detoxify the chemical before its gets stuck to the dna and induces mutation. If it is a viral stress, the cell has to figure out how to kill the virus before it kills the cell.
Exactly what the cell should do to defend itself is commanded by NF kappaB. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Radioprotective properties of adaptogens include the ability to protect the dna of the body from the dangerous, mutating power of various forms of radiation. Free radical scavenging and antioxidant activity is the likely mechanism involved in this radioprotective effect.
By causing oxidative damage in the dna, free radicals can produce mutations that, over time, can lead to cancer. Some adaptogens protect the heart and liver cells from oxidative and chemical damage caused by chemotherapy used to treat cancer. |
Hyla Cass
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 Like vitamin B12, folate is a key player in the synthesis of dna and in methylation (a biological process that helps dna resist cancerous changes)—therefore, it's important for cancer prevention. Low folic acid levels in the body are linked with cancers of the cervix, colon, rectum, esophagus, lung, brain, breast, and pancreas.
Folic acid helps to prevent heart disease, too. A study of nearly 2,000 Finnish men found that those who got the most folate in their diets had about 45 percent as much risk of a heart attack, compared with men who ate the least folate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you look back at the Troker Study conducted in Spain a couple of years ago, what they found was when they radiolabeled the aspartame, they could actually see formaldehyde binding to the dna, and it produced both single and double strand dna breakage.
We know that when formaldehyde binds to dna, it's very difficult to remove it. It will stay there for long periods of time. What that means is if you just drink a single diet cola today, or sweeten something with NutraSweet, you're accumulating damage every day. |
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