Dawson Church
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 Jay Phelan, Ph.D., a biology professor at UCLA, tell us that: "Using advanced DNA technology, measures of genetic variation confirm that human races are trivially different from one another. For that one-quarter of our genes for which there is some variability, there is little rhyme or reason to how this variation is divvied up from one person to the next. Africans have huge variations in blood type: some are type O, some AB, others A or B. But the same goes for Asians and Turks, Russians and Spaniards. |
| Lee Dugatkin, professor of biology at the University of Louisville, points out that after the basic rules governing the inheritance of char acteristics across generations were made by Mendel, and the structure of the DNA molecule was discovered, scientists became convinced that the gene was the "means by which traits could be transmitted across generations. We see this trend continuing today in research labs throughout the world as well as in the media in reports of genes for schizophrenia, genes for homosexuality, genes for alcoholism, and so on. Genes for this, genes for that. |
| He first used the term in a 1953 speech, and restated it in a paper in the journal Nature, entitled, Central Dogma of Molecular biology.17 Yet for some thirty years, scientists have been turning up anomalous data that is not compatible with the Central Dogma. The outcomes of these experiments require much more complex interactions than genetic determinism can explain.18
One of many problems with the dogma, for instance, is that the number of genes in the human chromosome is insufficient to carry all the information required to create and run a human body. |
| In the succinct words of another medical pioneer, "Beliefs become biology"—in our hormonal, neural, genetic, and electromagnetic systems, plus all the complex interactions between them.23 nner and Outer Environment
Memory learning, stress, and healing are all affected by classes of genes that are turned on or off in temporal cycles that range from one second to many hours. The environment that activates genes includes both the inner environment—the emotional, biochemical, mental, energetic, and spiritual landscape of the individual—and the outer environment. |
| It integrates experiences of mind (sensory-perceptual awareness of novelty with the arousal/motivational aspects of the numinosum) with biology (gene expression, protein synthesis, neurogenesis, and healing).... Activity-dependent creative experiences in the arts, cultural rituals, humanities, and sciences as well as the peak experiences of everyday life are all manifestations of the novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis effect. |
| How things interact is what's more important in biology than just the things that are there. The genome tells us very little, if anything at all, about how things interact."3 For biologists, understanding the mechanics of enormously complex self-organizing systems like the human body is a challenge of much greater magnitude than mapping the genome itself. |
Charles Barber
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 In the development of western science, physics and chemistry came first, and thereby framed what we believe a science should be. biology came later and aspired to fit these earlier paradigms. This is all well and good, but the difficulty lies in the fact that biology is inherently messy—and neurobiology messier still. The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001, also, by association, has served to bolster psychiatry's newfound scientific image. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 All my certitudes about biology and physics were shattered!
In retrospect, it should have been obvious to me and to other biologists that Newtonian physics, as elegant and reassuring as it is to hyper-rational scientists, cannot offer the whole truth about the human body, let alone the Universe. Medical science keeps advancing, but living organisms stubbornly refuse to be quantified. |
| In real-life cellular biology, the bread and butter portion of the sandwich represents the membrane's phospholipids, one of the two major chemical components of the membrane. (The other major chemical components are the "olive" proteins, which we'll get to below.) I call phospholipids "schizophrenic" because they are composed of both polar and non-polar molecules.
The fact that phospholipids contain both polar and non-polar molecules may not sound like a recipe for schizophrenia to you, but I assure you it is. |
| Dolittle award for anthropomorphism or more precisely cytopomorphism—thinking like a cell, but for me it is biology 101. You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately 50 trillion single-celled citizens. Almost all of the cells that make up your body are amoeba-like, individual organisms that have evolved a cooperative strategy for their mutual survival. Reduced to basic terms, human beings are simply the consequence of "collective amoebic consciousness. |
| In reality, the idea that genes control biology is a supposition, which has never been proven and in fact has been undermined by the latest scientific research. Genetic control, argues Nijhout, has become a metaphor in our society. We want to believe that genetic engineers are the new medical magicians who can cure diseases and while they're at it create more Einsteins and Mozarts as well. But metaphor does not equate with scientific truth. |
| This belief has not only led to a misallocation of research dollars, as I will argue in a later chapter, but more importantly, it has changed the way we think about our lives. When you are convinced that genes control your life and you know that you had no say in which genes you were saddled with at conception, you have a good excuse to consider yourself a victim of heredity. "Don't blame me for my work habits—it's not my fault that I've been procrastinating on my deadline...It's genetic! |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 These active ingredients are avobenzone (also called Parsol 1789 or butyl methoxydibenzoyl-methane), titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, Tinosorb, and Mexoryl SX (ecamsule) (Sources: Free Radical Research, April 2007, pages 461-468; Mutation Research, April 2007, pages 71-78; International Journal of Radiation biology, November 2006, pages 781-792; Photodermatology, Photoimmunology, &Photomedicine, December 2000, pages 250-255; and Photochemistry and Photobiology, March 2000, pages 314-320). |
Bruce H. Lipton
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| No matter how you cut it, biological science is based to some degree on humanizing the subject matter.
Actually, I believe that the unwritten ban on anthropomorphism is an outmoded remnant of the Dark Ages when religious authorities denied any direct relationship existed between humans and any of God's other creations. While I can see the value of the concept when people try to anthropomorphize a light bulb, a radio or a pocketknife, I do not see it as a valid criticism when it is applied to living organisms. |
Charles Barber
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| This is all well and good, but the difficulty lies in the fact that biology is inherently messy—and neurobiology messier still. The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001, also, by association, has served to bolster psychiatry's newfound scientific image. That a rough draft of the human genetic makeup has been developed contributes to a popular belief that psychiatric disorders proceed in neat Mendelian inheritable patterns. But if anything has been gleaned for the last two decades of work in the genetics of psychiatric disorders, it is that it is a terribly complex business. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Bacteria Are Resistant to Antibiotics— How to Fight Them
Stuart Levy, MD, professor of medicine, molecular biology and microbiology, and director, Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston. He is founder and president of the nonprofit Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics {www. apua.org) and author of The Antibiotic Paradox. Perseus.
By now, we've all heard about the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. |
Ron Garner
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 Bruce Lipton, discussed previously, proves that the biology of our cells is controlled by our minds.2 This is primarily because our thoughts, which stem from our beliefs, cause a different chemical response in our bodies depending on whether we feel safe or threatened, happy or annoyed, positive or negative. By sensing through their receptors, cells react to their environment by either growing or being protective. A healthy environment evokes a growth response, and a toxic environment evokes a protection response. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 ENERGETIC STAR 2: MEMORY IMPRINTER
According to conventional biology, you wouldn't think of memory as either a metabolic pathway or a survival mechanism for the body, but in bioenergetics memory means patterns of information, and the body depends on this systemic, bodywide memory to perform at all levels of functioning. Memory is not only a function of your brain/mind but also of every aspect of your body, of those processes taking place at the cellular and even the DNA levels as well as those at the larger systems level, such as in your nervous system or immune system. |
| Wolff's theory provides a theoretical underpinning for the human body-field and, by extension, for biology in general. Space resonance theory (also called the wave structure of matter theory1) is itself frontier science because it is not widely known within the physics community and at first appears to be incompatible with the Standard Model of physics. However, as we discussed briefly in chapter 2, several recent experiments, such as those by Shahriar Afshar, lend credence to wave-dominant theories in general and to Wolff's model of the photon in particular. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 What gets lost is that these seemingly unrelated threads are tied together at a fundamental level of biology. I'll explain how, by exploring volumes of new research that hasn't yet appeared anywhere for the general public.
What I aim to do here is to deliver in plain English the inspiring science connecting exercise and the brain and to demonstrate how it plays out in the lives of real people. I want to cement the idea that exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems. |
Stacy Malkan
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 According to John Warner, even PhD chemists are not required to take courses in toxicology, biology or environmental health. Only a handful of schools in the US teach green chemistry at all. "People say there's nothing new to invent," Warner laments. "This is a whole new area for innovation, for creativity, for cutting-edge technology. It's a huge opportunity."
So what's the holdup? Human nature? Fear of change? Entrenched industries? Entrenched academia? All of the above. |
| My body biology is susceptible to cancer," Andrea said. Did she think her chemical body burden contributed to the cancer? "No one can say for sure. But no one can say it hasn't," she said. "We deserve to know what toxins are in our bodies. We have a right to know what health effects these chemicals have."3 Andrea died shortly afterward at the age of 57, but her fire burns on in what is today the only national organization focused solely on preventing breast cancer by identifying and eliminating the environmental causes of the disease. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 As you probably learned in biology class, you and all other terrestrial animals by weight are 70 percent salt water. Even many of the trace elements in our cells and blood are in exactly the same concentrations as found in our oceans. If the concentration of salt gets too low in our blood or cells, the delicate cellular machinery sputters to a stop, as surely as if you ran out of air underwater. (Most deaths suffered during marathons occur not from heart attacks but from drinking too much water and losing too much salt.)
Unfortunately, your body has a built-in salt leak. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| Aside from challenging the long-standing separation between biology and psychology, the social implications of environmental enrichment were radical. The Berkeley studies led to the creation of Head Start, the federal education program that provides funding to send disadvantaged children to preschool. Why should poor kids be left in bare cages? The field took off, and neuroscientists began to investigate different ways to stimulate brain growth.
Once Greenough was safely ensconced as a faculty member, at the University of Illinois, he turned back to this line of research. |
Ron Garner
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| He explains that our beliefs and perceptions govern our biology at the cellular level. By changing our beliefs and perceptions, we can actually change our gene structure and what manifests in our lives.2 When we take personal responsibility for our health, educate ourselves to understand what is helpful and what is harmful to the body, and change our lifestyle practices and beliefs, we begin to help the body heal. In time, it will reward us with increased vitality.
When we are young, our health is formed by the nutritional and attitu-dinal environments provided by our parents. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| Today there is an ever-widening gap between the evolution of our biology and our society. We don't have to run from lions, but we're stuck with the instinct, and the fight-or-flight response doesn't exactly fly in the boardroom. If you get stressed at work, would you slap your boss? Or turn and run? The trick is how you respond. The way you choose to cope with stress can change not only how you feel, but also how it transforms the brain. If you react passively or if there is simply no way out, stress can become damaging. |
Ron Garner
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| In his book The biology of Belief Dr. Lipton explains that cells are either growing or protecting themselves. When cells perceive nutrition in their environment, they move toward it for growth. When they sense a threat to their well-being, they go into protection mode and move away.2
When we are newly born, we naturally respond to good nutrition and love; we feel energized and supported, and consequently grow. But when the receptors in our bodies perceive toxins or chemicals from emotions that cause fear, we go into protection mode; we retreat and stop growing. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Creates an Award in Memory of a Vivisector
In January 2002, In Defense of Animals, an organization devoted to ending the exploitation and abuse of animals, issued a press release announcing that lams was sponsoring a new award for "Achievements in Animal biology." In Defense of Animals emphasized that this award was named for James E. Corbin, PhD, "a vivisector at the University of Illinois who spent fifty years conducting painful and lethal experiments on animals to develop commercial pet foods."17
Some of the experiments credited to Dr. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| It's going to take a long time to puzzle it all out, but I do think that, yes, we are talking quantum and that, yes, there is something special about how quantum relates to the biology of living creatures. All I can say with some measure of confidence is that these are the conditions, at a minimum, that my research indicates are required to form and support the human body-field. |
| Although the explanations that follow contain biology terms with which you may not be familiar, we have included this level of detail so that you can understand how the NES system of bioenergetic health is furthering our understanding of the biophysics of the body.
ENERGETIC DRIVER I: SOURCE DRIVER
Source energy, as already explained, can be thought of as a kind of life-force energy, perhaps representing energy from the quantum zero-point field. |
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