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so the question is how much of your

disease is genetic and how much of your

health is genetic sometimes people might

tell you you know it’s all in the genes

I was just born with bad genes and

there’s nothing you can do you need to

pick your parents more wisely next time

that is absolutely not true only five to

ten percent of disease is caused by some

genetic defect that is passed on from

your parents it doesn’t mean that you’re

going to get that disease there’s a

really good book but I’m reading cancer

as a metabolic disease by Thomas C free

this guy is like the expert in cancer

and what he says and I’m just

paraphrasing when you see tumors and

cancers you do see a lot of genetic

mutations but those mutations those

alterations and genes are downstream in

other words their symptoms they’re not

causes of the cancer they’re symptoms of

the damage in the mitochondria the

machinery where you’re burning fuel

that’s the first thing that gets damaged

and then the mitochondria adapts to a

different metabolism called fermentation

and because the mitochondria has its own

DNA and they’re not protected like the

DNA in the nucleus okay because they’re

outside the nucleus they’re very

susceptible to mutations and alterations

in the DNA and that’s probably one of

the reasons why you see so many gene

mutations in tumors and cancer because

of this fact so most of the gene

mutations are not inherited they’re

what’s called somatic mutations let me

define somatic mutations basically means

not inherited that caused by your

environment let’s take a look okay

here’s another word for you it’s called

epigenetics that means above genetics so

if DNA is DVDs the DVD player would be

the epigenetics so you can select what

song or what playlist that you want to

activate okay so epi

genetics is all about controlling your

genes and activating your genes because

your genes don’t really do anything

they’d like to blueprints they have to

be activated or what is called silenced

or not activated but here’s the thing

ninety to ninety five percent of your

health and whether you get a disease is

epigenetics now I’m gonna give you one

more word okay and then that’s it for

the words exposome okay this is a word

that means the accumulation of all the

exposures of an individual in a lifetime

and how those exposures relate to health

and we’re talking about the accumulation

of exposure to your environment

and this starts before you were born

when you’re in the womb what your mother

ate the stress that she experienced all

that adds up that can eventually trigger

certain genes that lead to certain

diseases so epigenetics we include all

the environmental factors the stresses

the social experiences as a child and

especially the nutrition and what you

eat and what you don’t eat because if

you’re deficient in certain nutrients it

makes you very very susceptible to

getting all sorts of diseases so the

nutrition is a really important factor

in protecting you against DNA damage and

supporting also the repair of DNA so it

can prevent the mutations and

alterations that then lead to disease

and I really believe that another huge

factor that’s equivalent to your

environment with epigenetics is your

attitude and your mental state how you

view things how you deal with life are

you in fear all the time and worried

about things versus I do you have a

relaxed mental attitude about it I think

that’s a really important factor but the

main message for this video is this your

genes have a lot less to do with your

health and you have the ability to

control your genes way more than you

think so don’t buy into this whole

concept that everything is genetic and

you’re predestined to certain diseases

that’s not

true because you can control your health

because your lifestyle and your attitude

are a senior factor in this I put

another video down below to give you

additional information about epigenetics

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