Guest guest Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 Light and Love Below is the meaningful article by Joel Nathan " Stress and Genetics: Factors Influencing Illness," 1. Nov 2008, represented in short. Our immune system is not only affected by our thoughts, words, and external threats, but by our habits: not getting enough sleep, not eating enough, consuming tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, tranquillizers and other drugs. There seems to me to be little doubt that we are built into a pattern of life by the way we live. We know that some cancers are caused by genes that mutate after birth as a result of damage by radiation, smoking, alcohol and stressful factors, and some are caused by events that occurred before you were born. Evidence provided by the growing field of epigenetics shows that e.g. that if your grandparents smoked or suffered stress as in the case of famine, the damage to their genes can carry through and affect yours. Over and above your genetic predisposition, your lifestyle, the environment, and chance, the effect of mind–body interactions cannot be discounted. We need to keep reminding ourselves of some basic truths, perhaps best expressed in the words of Sai Baba, who said, "One’s anger is one’s greatest enemy, and one’s calmness is one’s protection. One’s joy is one’s heaven, and one’s sorrow is one’s hell." In his book, On Being Human, anthropologist Ashley Montagu reminds us that "each cell depends for its proper functioning upon the interaction with it of every other cell of the organism." In the same way as the survival of a species depends on the mutual cooperation of its members in warding off attack, so a threat to one cell represents a threat to all cells, and ultimately to the survival of the entire body-mind. Maintaining mutual cooperation so the body can survive means all cells need to be in uninterrupted communication with each other, reproduce only when signaled to do so by other cells, and maintain their rightful place in the scheme of things. When everything is in order, and the immune system and the central nervous system are in harmony, the body is said to be in steady state called homeostasis. But this delicate balance is continually under threat from germs, viruses, the environment in which we live, and the way we respond to stressful situations, some present, others long gone but still unresolved. The complete article: http://www.healthnews.com/blogs/joel-nathan/family-health/stress-genetics-factors-influencing-illness-2055.html Namaste- Reet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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