Your Thoughts Control Your DNA: Biologist
Epoch Times,
by
Tara MacIsaac
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/27/2022 1:26:03 PM
The common idea that DNA determines so much of who we are—not only our eye or hair color, for example, but also our addictions, disorders, or susceptibility to cancer—is a misconception, said stem-cell biologist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
“You find yourself to be more or less a victim of your heredity,”(snip) “The problem with that belief system is that it extends to another level. … You become irresponsible. [You say,] ‘I can’t do anything about it, so why try?'”
This concept “says you are less powerful than your genes,” (snip)
He said a person’s perception, not genetic programming, is what spurs all action in the body:
This is not new. In fact, there’s an entire ancient book, called The Bible that explains how humans reactions to situations determines who and what they are, not their daddy’s passed down hair color or crooked teeth. Although, daddy’s attitudes are monstrously hard to get past when a person gets older and can make their own decisions about how to handle life’s challenges. You know, the old “give me a child until they’re seven” thing. That is so true.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 3/27/2022 1:51:17 PM (No. 1111628)
So, if you're a guy and you think you're a girl , you've changed your DNA ? This non doctor, non scientist doesn't buy it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 3/27/2022 1:51:43 PM (No. 1111630)
So Bruce, if I think that I am a XX hard enough, all my Y's will disappear. That's just as ridiculous as thinking I do not have red hair if I dye it blond.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
davew 3/27/2022 2:06:16 PM (No. 1111641)
Thoughts can influence the health choices we make but they are heavily influenced by the physical sensations in the body that provide continuous feedback to our thoughts. Addictive substances stimulate dopamine in the brain which feels good and conditions us to want more of it. People whose genetics make them more or less responsive to dopamine or other neurotransmitters like adrenalin or whose neural pathways are more or less efficient respond differently to the choices they confront in life. Genetics are not determinative of behavior, but they influence the possibilities for success that are available to us. This is why most of us will never play in the NBA or perform Bach's Goldberg Variations.
What is absolutely certain is that thoughts, which are mental states, cannot influence the functioning of the DNA code which is deterministic based on the information that it encodes. This "mind-over-matter" idea is attractive to self-help book authors but not the way the physical world works.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/27/2022 3:25:54 PM (No. 1111692)
He is not talking about thoughts controlling our chromosomes. Chromosomes (which determine our sex) are not the same as our DNA. Look it up.
For as long as I can remember, obese persons have blamed it on their genes. Their heredity. He is explaining why that is not valid.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 3/27/2022 3:42:04 PM (No. 1111700)
It sounds like the Music Man’s method of teaching children to play musical instruments. He called it the “Think System.” If the children think the music hard enough they can miraculously play it on a trumpet!! Using this reasoning we ought to be able to think away cancer. Or if your blood doesn’t clot properly because you were born with the genetic defect called hemophilia, you can just “think” it away. Hogwash!! This is just some quack trying to make the case that “transsexuals” are really the sex they imagine themselves to be. So it must follow that drugs and plastic surgery aren’t needed. “Trans” folks should just use the think system to change their DNA. Think hard enough that you’re a girl and suddenly you are! Then Johnny gets to hang out in in the girls locker room. I would have liked that gig when I was 16.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
KGK73 3/27/2022 3:42:06 PM (No. 1111701)
Garbage.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
EQKimball 3/27/2022 4:11:26 PM (No. 1111717)
#6. The only person who absolutely knew the boys band could play was not phony “think system” inventor Prof. Hill, but the town’s music teacher who had fallen in love with him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 3/27/2022 4:19:29 PM (No. 1111718)
Paywall.
All you commenters are subscribers?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jimboscott 3/27/2022 7:56:08 PM (No. 1111830)
"As a man thinks... so is he" is nothing new. It is in the Book of Proverbs and Solomon was no dummy.
The article is behind a PAY WALL so I have not read it, but the the title and opening statement seem to me to be saying that DNA and heredity is no excuse for moral failures and personality defects. If we DID live in a purely materialistic Universe then we are all completely bound to the next chemical reaction that will inevitably occur in a cascade of molecular collisions that create an inevitable outcome from which no act of the will can escape.
And, if THAT was the case then there is no such a one being responsible for their actions. Fact is, we CAN decide. We CAN choose one thing over another. We are NOT bound to a course of thought and action by the chemicals from which we are composed.
That said, there are things that are inherited. A 98 pound weakling with no genetic predisposition to physical strength is not going to succeed as an athlete as easily as those born with the genetics that lead to a natural athleticism. And we certainly learn from what our families model for us.
But, come right down to it... life is a series of decisions. Free will is a thing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
columba 3/27/2022 8:33:07 PM (No. 1111845)
All of us have free will and can choose what we want. Such freedom is a gift of our creator.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 3/27/2022 8:41:37 PM (No. 1111850)
For whatever it's worth, the paywall blocks me after about 3 seconds. So if you can read REALLY fast, you might still read the article.
And the basic point of departure for biologist Bruce is balderdash. People who have no conscious perception can still have vigorously working actions in their body. It's pretty obvious that perception doesn't spur all action in the body...
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T&L 3/28/2022 12:30:26 PM (No. 1112395)
I see no pay wall On my android phone, or on my Kindle Fire, if I turn off JavaScript, then load the page. On my desk Windows 7 computer, I use NoScript, which allows me to grant (or not) temporary, discrete permission to each script on the site.
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Aubreyesque 3/28/2022 1:34:12 PM (No. 1112469)
#6 or better yet "I think I am a god, therefore I am." Seems like thats the take that a lot of people in this world have chosen. Especially the Davos/WEF elites.
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