It's in the genes...OR IS IT REALLY?

[Guest guest]

Diane and all ,

who've been following our discussion/brain storming on celiac and the question

of whether

something is indeed heriditary.

I have been following Mercola for years. I find him to be a very credible source

of information.

I thought it was interesting that today's newletter happens to deal with

something we've been talking about.

Blessings of Many,

Lizzie

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

The role of epigenetics in health and disease is becoming ever clearer, and I

firmly believe this field of study will eventually supplant the current medical

paradigm. The conventional belief has been that genes controlled their own

expression and were therefore the direct cause of certain diseases. This laid

the groundwork for the idea that your genes predetermined your health.

But genes are in fact NOT self-regulating.

Having " bad genes, " does not at all mean you're doomed to suffer some inevitable

fate. Genes are merely blueprints, and these blueprints are activated and

controlled by something else entirely, namely their environment. This

environmental information—which includes diet, toxic exposures, as well as

thoughts and emotions, and more—can create more than 30,000 different variations

from each blueprint, allowing for an astounding amount of leeway in modifying

the expression or " read-out " of each gene!