How to Take Control of Your DNA

Modern medicine likes to tell you that chronic diseases are in your genes. Maybe you’re worried about inheriting your mother’s cancer, or your father’s heart disease, or your grandmother’s arthritis. I never bought into that. I tell my patients that they aren’t “destined” to get any modern diseases. These are the results of your primal body coming up against a hostile environment. Genes are only part of the equation. External influences like diet and environment affect how your genes express themselves. I have seen it many times with my own patients. And the scientific area of “epigenetics” proves what I’ve always believed: external factors can switch “good” genes on and “bad” genes off. If you can control how those external factors impact your body, you have the power to reprogram your own DNA. That means you can “instruct” your body to slow aging, live longer and prevent diseases. And now, an emerging field of anti-aging medicine called gene therapy let’s you do just that. If you were one of the guests at my recent Palm Beach Anti-Aging Summit, you would have been lucky enough to see the presentation by Elizabeth Parrish, the founder and chief executive of BioViva Sciences. Earlier this year, Elizabeth made medical history by becoming the first person to be treated with gene therapy to reverse biological aging. BioViva is currently developing gene therapies to reverse debilitating age-related diseases, like cancer, heart disease, diabete...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Anti-Aging DNA gene therapy Source Type: news