Genes Articles

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Cold-Induced Gene Mutations & Obesity

Numerous genes are different in those whose ancestors came from more Northern climates, especially changes in the leptin receptors. This clearly means the stronger your ancestry is linked to colder climates the more you are genetically predisposed to obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart disease.

Read More: climate, genes, high blood pressure, overweight

Vitamins and Minerals Can Fix Genetic Weaknesses

New research is showing that most people carry numerous functional gene problems that may be readily corrected with vitamins and minerals.

Read More: disease, genes, minerals, vitamins

Stress, Genes, and the Mind/Body Link

Is it all in your head? Well, maybe not. Much of mind/body medicine has been based on observation with no clear form of proof adequate to satisfy skeptics. Researchers at Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital have shown clear genetic switch differences between the relaxation response and the stress response. This is concrete scientific evidence of the mind/body link.

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15% of Population at High Risk for Statin Injury

The New England Journal of Medicine reports on a detailed analysis of the human genome in those with statin-induced muscle damage. Scientists have uncovered an alteration in a gene that causes statin drugs to be more readily absorbed by the liver, thereby making the drug very toxic. 15% of our population has the risk-related gene variant.

Read More: genes, muscle damage, statins

The New Frontier of Social-Mind-Body Health

A new study just added the social element to mind and body health. Of course, there have been many observations that some people are healthier and live longer when they have better social interaction. However, scientists with their new tools are now showing that gene switches are turned on and off in your brain based on social interaction.

Read More: genes, health, social behavior

Another Resveratrol Anti-Aging Breakthrough

A new mechanism has been identified that explains one novel way that resveratrol not only helps prevent aging but may help reverse it. It involves a unique way in which the resveratrol-activated SIRT1 guards your DNA. In the new study the researchers state: “We see here, through a proof-of-principal demonstration, that elements of aging can be reversed.”

Read More: aging, genes, Resveratrol

Pregnancy and Vital Gene Programming

It is now very clear that gene switches are programmed in a baby while in the womb. Factors such as the nutritional status of the mother, stress, and mood can have a major impact on several future generations. Ongoing animal experiments prove beyond any question that gene setting that occur in the womb persist following birth.

Read More: Daily Energy Multiple Vitamin™, fetal programming, genes, Iosol Iodine, Stress Helper®

How Hostile Bacteria Take Up Unwanted Residence

Some of the worst bacterial infections have learned how to trick and evade the human immune response, allowing themselves to set up shop and wreak havoc to health. Two new studies help explain how problematic bacterial infections work their evil.

Read More: avoiding detection, bacteria, genes, Noni

Abdominal Fat Stresses Overall Metabolism

Stored fat, especially abdominal fat, signifies far more than just bothersome extra weight. It indicates a metabolic problem in that the stored fat is itself dysfunctional, contributing to problems all over your body including slowing down your metabolism and inducing insulin resistance.

Read More: abdominal fat, genes, insulin resistance, LeptiCardio Pack™, Leptin Control Pack®, Leptinal®, LeptiSlim®

Gene Abuse – The Self-Inflicted Path to Type II Diabetes

New diabetes-related gene research on humans has shown for the first time that the over-consumption of calories resulting in being overweight induces changes in gene expression in your muscles that result in a decreased genetic ability to burn calories. Unfortunately, this is incredibly bad news. And on the other hand, it can be viewed as self-empowering.

Read More: epigentics, genes, type 2 diabetes

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