Epigenetic vs Genetics: Reprogramming and healing your body and mind

Genetics; the program or coding for DNA, a road map to the health conditions with which we were born.  Genetics has always existed as the fallback, culprit, catch all reason for the development of disease and aging. 

However, there are genetics and then there is something called Epigenetics and Epigenetics is the modulation or adaptation of your genes through behaviors both physical and psychological.  

The study below explains what is called the methylation process of genes.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267396620_Exercise_training_and_DNA_methylation_in_humans

It turns out, exercise  has a positive effect on the methylation process of genes. In other words, genes which were genetically predisposed to provide a certain code or mutation in your body, maybe positively changed through exercise.

Let's look at it from the perspective of your possible behavior patterns:

  Through the progress of normal daily life, sometimes we eat healthy foods, mostly we eat foods which are ok, we exercise a little, sleep sometimes and that's that, those genetic codes, the original blueprints and DNA codes for diseases, disfunction and aging  will probably come to fruition.

On the other hand, when we exercise and oxidize the body we effect the processes of our cell production. Thereby actually changing these"pre-disposed" genetic patterns. We are then reprograming our DNA through epigenetics. Whatever our genetics may have initially said about our DNA codes, it may now say something different, in a positive way. As we have broken codes of disease and aging. 

Interestingly enough, when we add the mental and emotional components of exercise and also meditation or daily quiet focus, it is proven, both through the production of hormone and grey matter in the brain, we are able to access positive healing in our bodies.

We cannot only reprogram our DNA coding through exercise, we can also heal our bodies with our minds. 

I'd have to say that's a pretty powerful 1-2 combination.

 “As the ability to meditate develops, a hierarchy of sensation develops, ranging from deep relaxation to marked emotional and cognitive alterations. . . . Many of these peripheral changes are compatible with decreased arousal of the sympathetic nervous system. . . . The peripheral physiological changes have proven to be of value as a primary or adjunctive treatment for a variety of medical disorders such as hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias, as well as in relieving anxiety states and pain.”  Dr. Ilan Kutz, American Journal of Psychiatry

Train Your Inner Warrior is founded on these notions. We have both the chemistry and the brain function to effect vital change and healing in the greatest domain we have, our bodies

Your with Gratitude,
 

Anna