“Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.” - Conan O’Brien

In a recent discussion with Zorka Hereford from EssentialLifeSkills on the subject of good looks vs. self-confidence, we reached a point where the issue of the genetic nature of good looks came up.

It seems that a lot of people (still) believe that genes control our biology. You know: I look good because I have good genes, that man over there looks fat because he has bad genes, etc. So I don’t have any reason to be more self-confident because I look good, as that is a result of inherited traits and I had nothing to do with that…

Wrong! We *do* have control over our genes. I’m not a scientist so I can’t explain this too well, but Bruce Lipton, Ph.D, cell biologist, can.

by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D | Text Source: SpiritCrossing.org

Living organisms, from cells to human beings, survive through the integrated activities of numerous physiologic systems that provide such functions as respiration, digestion, cardiovascular circulation, excretion, awareness and immune protection. To understand how each system “works,” conventional biomedical sciences disassemble organisms to study their molecular components. Through this process of reductionism, science created the ‘medical model,’ a belief that life is derived from a biochemical machine controlled by genes.

As a research scientist and former medical school professor, I actively supported and endorsed the fundamental belief that genes ‘control’ life. The primacy of genes in the unfoldment of life is based upon one of science’s most fundamental principles, The Central Dogma. The dogma, defined by Francis Crick, co-discoverer with James Watson of the genetic code, describes the flow of information in biological systems: DNA>RNA>Protein. Accordingly, genetic DNA blueprints which codify our physical bodies, and consequently our lives, represent our source. Information encoded in the DNA is then translated into RNA molecules. The short-lived RNA versions of genes represent the actual molecular templates used in assembling proteins. Proteins are complex molecular building blocks that collectively form our bodies.

Based upon this dogma, the prevailing medical model emphasizes that the character and quality of human life is derived from DNA programs comprising our genome. Our strengths, such as artistic or intellectual abilities, and our weaknesses, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer or depression, represent traits that are presumably preprogrammed in our genes. Thus we tend to perceive life’s attributes and deficits, as well as our health and our frailties, as merely a reflection of heredity. This philosophy fosters the idea that both dis-ease and disease represent an inherent inability on the part the body to heal itself, and that remediation relies upon the administration of drugs. Hence the name medicine.

Interestingly, the word dogma is defined as a belief that is based upon religious reasoning rather than scientific fact. Astonishingly, The Central Dogma, which declares that genes ‘control’ life, is in reality actually an unscientific ‘religious belief.’ Though the power of genes is still emphasized in current biology courses, textbooks and mass media, a radically new understanding is emerging at the frontiers of cell science. New findings reveal that the dogma is dead wrong. When the concepts revealed by the new science are integrated into mass consciousness, they will profoundly change the course of human civilization.

The first research revealing that genes did not ‘control’ biology was published a hundred years ago, long before the relevance of DNA was even understood. In those early days of cell research, many experimenters traced the fate of enucleated cells. Enucleation is the process of removing a cell’s nucleus, the organelle that contains its genome. In many organisms, enucleated eggs can divide and form a blastula, an embryological stage consisting of forty or more cells, possessing neither nuclei nor genes. Enucleated, gene-less cells can survive for two or more months while maintaining strict regulation of their behavioral mechanisms. They maneuver through their world seeking food, digesting it, and excreting wastes, breathing, avoiding toxins and socializing with other cells. If these cells possess no genes,then what ‘controls’ their behavior???

Recent advances in cellular science are heralding an important evolutionary turning point. For almost fifty years we have held the illusion that our health and fate were preprogrammed in our genes, a concept referred to as genetic determinism. Though mass consciousness is currently imbued with the belief that the character of one’s life is genetically predetermined, a radically new understanding is unfolding at the leading edge of science.

Cellular biologists now recognize that the environment, the external universe and our internal physiology, and more importantly, our perception of the environment, directly controls the activity of our genes.

This video will broadly review the molecular mechanisms by which environmental awareness interfaces genetic regulation and guides organismal evolution.

Make yourselves comfortable, as the videos have a combined length of 2:35hrs.

Enjoy and spread the word!

NOTE: Please don’t use the information presented in the videos to support the “Law of Attraction.” The information presented here does not support the LOA or it’s principles. Don’t take it out of its context and destroy its original meaning. Thank you.

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