10 reasons WHY 80% of who you are, is in your control.

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What if you knew that on average only 20% of who you are is Pre-Determined by your genetics? The other 80% is in your control; Where you live, what you eat, what you do, who you surround yourself with.

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  Before we go on, Let us take a step back and gain some Perspective

~4.6 Billion years old.

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40,000 + years

Indigenous cultures of the world are predicted to be as old as ~40,000 years, in a world that is scientifically proven to be ~4.6 Billion years old with +/- 50 million years.

Perhaps we can learn from indigenous cultures, considering what we have done to the environment in the past 70 years with the “industrial revolution”. We have changed the landscape of our environment more in the last 70 years than we have in the previous 40,000 years. Perhaps we as the “evolving human race” are playing the largest role in the nature vs nurture debate, when 80% of who we are is in our relative control?

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DNA replication is a truly amazing biological phenomenon. Consider the countless number of times that your cells divide to make you who you are—not just during development, but even now, as a fully mature adult. Then consider that every time a human cell divides and its DNA replicates, it has to copy and transmit the exact same sequence of 3 billion nucleotides to its daughter cells. Finally, consider the fact that in life (literally), nothing is perfect. While most DNA replicates with fairly high fidelity, mistakes do happen. However, the body has processes to accommodate for the thousands of “mistakes” that happen daily.

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8) Is anything we are doing to our body or environment affecting these replication processes?

look into what the laymen calls “toxins” and the scientists call endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which are substances in our environment, food, and consumer products that interfere with hormone biosynthesis, metabolism, or action resulting in a deviation from normal homeostatic control or reproduction. In simple terms, stops our body from functioning normally. So our environment and what we allow into our body can potentially affect us down to our DNA.

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Ok, so let us look at two ends of the spectrum 

Disease and preventative anti-ageing.

What do we know?

By definition, Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. So considering it is rare to be born with these cells and that our cells replicate trillions of time in our lifetime, with “mistakes” occurring and being fixed daily. Our body after birth must somehow “create” abnormal cells or allow them to occur – perhaps the endocrine disrupting chemicals and cells talked about previously play a large role here and help aid this process. Once the abnormal cell division occurs our body seems to then be unable to stop these cells from dividing uncontrollably. We usually see this as the “dis-ease” spreading or a tumour. Imagine if we could get to the cause and stop the abnormal cell division at it’s roots once it has occurred, or stop it from occurring in the first place by promoting healthy cells that can adapt to environmental stressors.  I wonder whether supporting healthy cells, a healthy immune system and minimising endocrine disrupting chemicals and cells from entering the body could be a way to prevent this uncontrolled cell growth from happening? Even using this approach in reverse to treat “cancer” considering 1 in 2 people today know someone who has had cancer of some sort. Scary, right?

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