The Epigenetic Epidemic

The Epigenetic Epidemic

Epigenetics: heritable changes that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence. In other words, disease-causing damage done to a parent body that is then passed along to offspring, also known as “having bad genes,” and the “epigenetic epidemic.”
Picture a healthy adult after being bombarded by all of the usual environmental crap in our food, water, air, and medicine for their first 20 years. The impact that toxic load might have in a healthy, non-cancerous, non-obese, non-inflammatory body (does that exist anymore?) is to switch on the “bad genes” that were already present, and make those bad genes start expressing themselves.
The person’s DNA itself is not changed, only whether or not the cancer/autoimmune disease/obesity genes are expressed. The damaged adult, who isn’t feeling damaged just yet, later makes a child. That child doesn’t get to start with a healthy clean slate because their bodies were told to express some of their parents’ bad genes. Add to that all of the toxins the child is later exposed to, and more damage is done, more bad genes expressed. The next thing you know, you’re hearing about cancer, mental illness, diabetes, or autism running in families. Bad genes don’t run in families– we all have bad genes. Some of them are just shouting louder than others.
What am I talking about? How do you make a bad gene pipe down?
It all starts with food. Food contains nutrients that nourish life. Not just any food– real food. Traditional food. The nutrients in real food contain methyl groups that are extracted by our bodies and attached to our bad genes.
What’s a methyl group? One carbon bound to 3 hydrogen atoms, nothing fancy. In the human body every cell has the programming to become any kind of cell, but it’s the methyl groups attached to an embryo’s DNA that say, “Hey, everyone else be quiet so I can make this cell into a heart cell, not an eyeball cell.” Like a hand pressed over a screaming mouth, a tightly methylated “cancer gene” is a silent one. Toxic crap in our bodies is knocking off our protective methyl groups or making them bind to the wrong spots, rendering them useless.
Have you ever heard a doctor say, “You don’t need to do a detox program! Our bodies are designed to detox on their own.” Maybe a century ago, sure, but today our bodies aren’t doing such a bang-up job in the detox department.
Let me walk you through it:
• Starting in the 1940s people were routinely exposed to lead, mercury, benzene, cadmium, DDT, and asbestos. Viva la Chemical Revolution! They were the first generation to get penicillin and legal speed from the doctor, eat meals cooked on Teflon, drink fluoride in the water supply, and use plywood furniture glued together with formaldehyde. A child born in 1950 was subjected to the smallpox vaccine, the first whole-cell DPT vaccine, and 5 years later, the mass polio vaccination program. Their methyl groups were picked off like flies and about 2% of that damage would be passed on.
• By the time that 1950s child became a first-time mother in 1970, she was carrying a toxic load unlike any of the generations that preceded her. Not only was she carrying that load, but her fetus also carried the load, along with all of the eggs her baby was born with. After being exposed to cigarettes while in utero, her 1970 baby was then given the DPT, polio, smallpox and MMR vaccines along with Tylenol for the fevers they caused. She was fed formula instead of breast milk, wore fire retardant pajamas, breathed smog, ate processed food, got amalgam fillings, drank out of Styrofoam cups, got a CT scan, and took hormonal birth control in college— all before becoming a mother in 1995. Her DNA expression was set to be wrecked as she aged. Another 2% of her turned-on bad genes got tacked onto the 2% of bad genes from her own mother, and passed onto her 1995 baby.
• The 1995 baby came into the world 5 years after the disastrous overhaul of the vaccination program and during the first wave of the autism and food allergy tsunami. She received multiple doses of DPT, polio, Hib, Hep B, and MMR vaccines, along with the new shot for chicken pox. She was routinely given the flu vaccine in adolescence. The 1995 baby grew up slathered in sunblock, gnawing on made-in-China BPA teethers, and ate GMO corn and soy before any of us knew it existed.
When that 1995 child becomes a mother in the year 2021, God help us all. Her baby will be a 4th generation time bomb.
Don’t think for one second this is just about women– it’s not. Fathers contribute their screaming bad genes 50/50 with mothers. Why is the autism rate in military families double of the rest of us?
We are 75 years into destroying the genetic expression and immune system function of the American people. There is an easy explanation for why autism rates continue to double every few years, along with the skyrocketing rates of diabetes, arthritis, epilepsy, ADHD, and food allergies: our relentless pursuit of self-destruction. Immunocompromised, genetically-predisposed people are no longer rare. They are everywhere. Your health is the physical manifestation of every special interest group’s quest to get rich for the past 8 decades. Thanks, Dow Chemical.
What can you do to fix your family’s epigenetic epidemic? That’s another blog post, and I don’t think I’m the one to write it. But epigenetics aren’t permanent; the methyl groups tell your baby when to grow, they change with puberty, they tell cells when to die. They evolve. It’s not too late to make a difference, and if you’re of child-bearing age, you make a difference not only for yourself and your future child, but even for your grandchildren down the road.
To start, research eating a methyl-donating diet. If you’re a woman on hormonal birth control, stop taking it. Don’t use antacids. Decrease stress and learn to meditate. Go gluten-free and reduce your dairy intake, keeping it grass-fed. Up your green leafy vegetable intake, eat more oranges, strawberries, and eggs from pastured chickens. Cut out the soy, corn, and eating any animals that have eaten GMO soy and corn. Get some sleep.
It’s called a healthy lifestyle, who knew?
You can also add a gram of non-GMO vitamin C powder to your bath water to neutralize chlorine. Supplement with SAM. Consult with an MTHFR-knowledgeable doctor and figure out which methylfolate is right for you because I sure as hell don’t know.
Bottom line: the next time you hear someone claim that they grew up in the 1950s/60s/70s/80s and they stood in line to be sprayed with DDT/played with mercury/ate toxic waste and they turned out just fine, walk the other way. It’s not worth it. None of us are just fine, but they’re not your target audience. Focus on the young’uns.
http://michaelchaddad.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/the-epigenetic-epidemic/

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The Epigenetic Epidemic

The Epigenetic Epidemic

Epigenetics: heritable changes that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence. In other words, disease-causing damage done to a parent body that is then passed along to offspring, also known as “having bad genes,” and the “epigenetic epidemic.”
Picture a healthy adult after being bombarded by all of the usual environmental crap in our food, water, air, and medicine for their first 20 years. The impact that toxic load might have in a healthy, non-cancerous, non-obese, non-inflammatory body (does that exist anymore?) is to switch on the “bad genes” that were already present, and make those bad genes start expressing themselves.
The person’s DNA itself is not changed, only whether or not the cancer/autoimmune disease/obesity genes are expressed. The damaged adult, who isn’t feeling damaged just yet, later makes a child. That child doesn’t get to start with a healthy clean slate because their bodies were told to express some of their parents’ bad genes. Add to that all of the toxins the child is later exposed to, and more damage is done, more bad genes expressed. The next thing you know, you’re hearing about cancer, mental illness, diabetes, or autism running in families. Bad genes don’t run in families– we all have bad genes. Some of them are just shouting louder than others.
What am I talking about? How do you make a bad gene pipe down?
It all starts with food. Food contains nutrients that nourish life. Not just any food– real food. Traditional food. The nutrients in real food contain methyl groups that are extracted by our bodies and attached to our bad genes.
What’s a methyl group? One carbon bound to 3 hydrogen atoms, nothing fancy. In the human body every cell has the programming to become any kind of cell, but it’s the methyl groups attached to an embryo’s DNA that say, “Hey, everyone else be quiet so I can make this cell into a heart cell, not an eyeball cell.” Like a hand pressed over a screaming mouth, a tightly methylated “cancer gene” is a silent one. Toxic crap in our bodies is knocking off our protective methyl groups or making them bind to the wrong spots, rendering them useless.
Have you ever heard a doctor say, “You don’t need to do a detox program! Our bodies are designed to detox on their own.” Maybe a century ago, sure, but today our bodies aren’t doing such a bang-up job in the detox department.
Let me walk you through it:
• Starting in the 1940s people were routinely exposed to lead, mercury, benzene, cadmium, DDT, and asbestos. Viva la Chemical Revolution! They were the first generation to get penicillin and legal speed from the doctor, eat meals cooked on Teflon, drink fluoride in the water supply, and use plywood furniture glued together with formaldehyde. A child born in 1950 was subjected to the smallpox vaccine, the first whole-cell DPT vaccine, and 5 years later, the mass polio vaccination program. Their methyl groups were picked off like flies and about 2% of that damage would be passed on.
• By the time that 1950s child became a first-time mother in 1970, she was carrying a toxic load unlike any of the generations that preceded her. Not only was she carrying that load, but her fetus also carried the load, along with all of the eggs her baby was born with. After being exposed to cigarettes while in utero, her 1970 baby was then given the DPT, polio, smallpox and MMR vaccines along with Tylenol for the fevers they caused. She was fed formula instead of breast milk, wore fire retardant pajamas, breathed smog, ate processed food, got amalgam fillings, drank out of Styrofoam cups, got a CT scan, and took hormonal birth control in college— all before becoming a mother in 1995. Her DNA expression was set to be wrecked as she aged. Another 2% of her turned-on bad genes got tacked onto the 2% of bad genes from her own mother, and passed onto her 1995 baby.
• The 1995 baby came into the world 5 years after the disastrous overhaul of the vaccination program and during the first wave of the autism and food allergy tsunami. She received multiple doses of DPT, polio, Hib, Hep B, and MMR vaccines, along with the new shot for chicken pox. She was routinely given the flu vaccine in adolescence. The 1995 baby grew up slathered in sunblock, gnawing on made-in-China BPA teethers, and ate GMO corn and soy before any of us knew it existed.
When that 1995 child becomes a mother in the year 2021, God help us all. Her baby will be a 4th generation time bomb.
Don’t think for one second this is just about women– it’s not. Fathers contribute their screaming bad genes 50/50 with mothers. Why is the autism rate in military families double of the rest of us?
We are 75 years into destroying the genetic expression and immune system function of the American people. There is an easy explanation for why autism rates continue to double every few years, along with the skyrocketing rates of diabetes, arthritis, epilepsy, ADHD, and food allergies: our relentless pursuit of self-destruction. Immunocompromised, genetically-predisposed people are no longer rare. They are everywhere. Your health is the physical manifestation of every special interest group’s quest to get rich for the past 8 decades. Thanks, Dow Chemical.
What can you do to fix your family’s epigenetic epidemic? That’s another blog post, and I don’t think I’m the one to write it. But epigenetics aren’t permanent; the methyl groups tell your baby when to grow, they change with puberty, they tell cells when to die. They evolve. It’s not too late to make a difference, and if you’re of child-bearing age, you make a difference not only for yourself and your future child, but even for your grandchildren down the road.
To start, research eating a methyl-donating diet. If you’re a woman on hormonal birth control, stop taking it. Don’t use antacids. Decrease stress and learn to meditate. Go gluten-free and reduce your dairy intake, keeping it grass-fed. Up your green leafy vegetable intake, eat more oranges, strawberries, and eggs from pastured chickens. Cut out the soy, corn, and eating any animals that have eaten GMO soy and corn. Get some sleep.
It’s called a healthy lifestyle, who knew?
You can also add a gram of non-GMO vitamin C powder to your bath water to neutralize chlorine. Supplement with SAM. Consult with an MTHFR-knowledgeable doctor and figure out which methylfolate is right for you because I sure as hell don’t know.
Bottom line: the next time you hear someone claim that they grew up in the 1950s/60s/70s/80s and they stood in line to be sprayed with DDT/played with mercury/ate toxic waste and they turned out just fine, walk the other way. It’s not worth it. None of us are just fine, but they’re not your target audience. Focus on the young’uns.
http://michaelchaddad.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/the-epigenetic-epidemic/

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The Epigenetic Epidemic

The Epigenetic Epidemic

Epigenetics: heritable changes that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence. In other words, disease-causing damage done to a parent body that is then passed along to offspring, also known as “having bad genes,” and the “epigenetic epidemic.”
Picture a healthy adult after being bombarded by all of the usual environmental crap in our food, water, air, and medicine for their first 20 years. The impact that toxic load might have in a healthy, non-cancerous, non-obese, non-inflammatory body (does that exist anymore?) is to switch on the “bad genes” that were already present, and make those bad genes start expressing themselves.
The person’s DNA itself is not changed, only whether or not the cancer/autoimmune disease/obesity genes are expressed. The damaged adult, who isn’t feeling damaged just yet, later makes a child. That child doesn’t get to start with a healthy clean slate because their bodies were told to express some of their parents’ bad genes. Add to that all of the toxins the child is later exposed to, and more damage is done, more bad genes expressed. The next thing you know, you’re hearing about cancer, mental illness, diabetes, or autism running in families. Bad genes don’t run in families– we all have bad genes. Some of them are just shouting louder than others.
What am I talking about? How do you make a bad gene pipe down?
It all starts with food. Food contains nutrients that nourish life. Not just any food– real food. Traditional food. The nutrients in real food contain methyl groups that are extracted by our bodies and attached to our bad genes.
What’s a methyl group? One carbon bound to 3 hydrogen atoms, nothing fancy. In the human body every cell has the programming to become any kind of cell, but it’s the methyl groups attached to an embryo’s DNA that say, “Hey, everyone else be quiet so I can make this cell into a heart cell, not an eyeball cell.” Like a hand pressed over a screaming mouth, a tightly methylated “cancer gene” is a silent one. Toxic crap in our bodies is knocking off our protective methyl groups or making them bind to the wrong spots, rendering them useless.
Have you ever heard a doctor say, “You don’t need to do a detox program! Our bodies are designed to detox on their own.” Maybe a century ago, sure, but today our bodies aren’t doing such a bang-up job in the detox department.
Let me walk you through it:
• Starting in the 1940s people were routinely exposed to lead, mercury, benzene, cadmium, DDT, and asbestos. Viva la Chemical Revolution! They were the first generation to get penicillin and legal speed from the doctor, eat meals cooked on Teflon, drink fluoride in the water supply, and use plywood furniture glued together with formaldehyde. A child born in 1950 was subjected to the smallpox vaccine, the first whole-cell DPT vaccine, and 5 years later, the mass polio vaccination program. Their methyl groups were picked off like flies and about 2% of that damage would be passed on.
• By the time that 1950s child became a first-time mother in 1970, she was carrying a toxic load unlike any of the generations that preceded her. Not only was she carrying that load, but her fetus also carried the load, along with all of the eggs her baby was born with. After being exposed to cigarettes while in utero, her 1970 baby was then given the DPT, polio, smallpox and MMR vaccines along with Tylenol for the fevers they caused. She was fed formula instead of breast milk, wore fire retardant pajamas, breathed smog, ate processed food, got amalgam fillings, drank out of Styrofoam cups, got a CT scan, and took hormonal birth control in college— all before becoming a mother in 1995. Her DNA expression was set to be wrecked as she aged. Another 2% of her turned-on bad genes got tacked onto the 2% of bad genes from her own mother, and passed onto her 1995 baby.
• The 1995 baby came into the world 5 years after the disastrous overhaul of the vaccination program and during the first wave of the autism and food allergy tsunami. She received multiple doses of DPT, polio, Hib, Hep B, and MMR vaccines, along with the new shot for chicken pox. She was routinely given the flu vaccine in adolescence. The 1995 baby grew up slathered in sunblock, gnawing on made-in-China BPA teethers, and ate GMO corn and soy before any of us knew it existed.
When that 1995 child becomes a mother in the year 2021, God help us all. Her baby will be a 4th generation time bomb.
Don’t think for one second this is just about women– it’s not. Fathers contribute their screaming bad genes 50/50 with mothers. Why is the autism rate in military families double of the rest of us?
We are 75 years into destroying the genetic expression and immune system function of the American people. There is an easy explanation for why autism rates continue to double every few years, along with the skyrocketing rates of diabetes, arthritis, epilepsy, ADHD, and food allergies: our relentless pursuit of self-destruction. Immunocompromised, genetically-predisposed people are no longer rare. They are everywhere. Your health is the physical manifestation of every special interest group’s quest to get rich for the past 8 decades. Thanks, Dow Chemical.
What can you do to fix your family’s epigenetic epidemic? That’s another blog post, and I don’t think I’m the one to write it. But epigenetics aren’t permanent; the methyl groups tell your baby when to grow, they change with puberty, they tell cells when to die. They evolve. It’s not too late to make a difference, and if you’re of child-bearing age, you make a difference not only for yourself and your future child, but even for your grandchildren down the road.
To start, research eating a methyl-donating diet. If you’re a woman on hormonal birth control, stop taking it. Don’t use antacids. Decrease stress and learn to meditate. Go gluten-free and reduce your dairy intake, keeping it grass-fed. Up your green leafy vegetable intake, eat more oranges, strawberries, and eggs from pastured chickens. Cut out the soy, corn, and eating any animals that have eaten GMO soy and corn. Get some sleep.
It’s called a healthy lifestyle, who knew?
You can also add a gram of non-GMO vitamin C powder to your bath water to neutralize chlorine. Supplement with SAM. Consult with an MTHFR-knowledgeable doctor and figure out which methylfolate is right for you because I sure as hell don’t know.
Bottom line: the next time you hear someone claim that they grew up in the 1950s/60s/70s/80s and they stood in line to be sprayed with DDT/played with mercury/ate toxic waste and they turned out just fine, walk the other way. It’s not worth it. None of us are just fine, but they’re not your target audience. Focus on the young’uns.
http://michaelchaddad.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/the-epigenetic-epidemic/

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