METAREALITY
things one can do including following an anti-inflammatory diet, taking regular exercise, getting
enough quality sleep, daily meditation, implementing stress-lowering methods and effectively
dealing with emotions.
The authors provide ‘menus’ of actions one can
take in each of these categories, ranging from easy
to more difficult and experimental.
And these will all contribute to creating a healthy
and flourishing epigenome - a field of compounds
and proteins that regulate DNA - and microbiome –
the community of bacteria that inhabit our bodies
and which vastly outnumber genes.
The first part of the book goes into the nitty gritty
of genetics and some surprising facts emerge, all
backed up with scientific data. For example consuming a glass of freshly-squeezed orange juice
along with a greasy fast food meal can cancel out
the inflammatory effects. Not that this gives one
carte blanche to eat unhealthy food. On the contrary, it’s that there really are superfoods and super methods that impact the epigenome and microbiome and it makes sense to use or do as many
of them as possible.
It’s a case of we aren’t what we already are but we
can be what we consciously choose to become.
The final section
offers ideas and data
about how evolution
may not be the
correct way of seeing
things and that in fact
DNA can be changed
in real-time.
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This stimulating
book explains the
reasons why and what
practical steps you
can take to activate
the natural power of
your genes to nurture
supreme health and
well-being
Part two is the how-to section, which explains the
methods one can take to transform your building
blocks into a harmonious foundation. From eating more hot sauce to thinking of one thing to be
grateful for each day to more experimental but no
less valid practices such as adopting a vegan diet,
these are solid ways in which to manifest a change
in your overall wellbeing which is largely dictated
by what’s going on in your system. So it’s prudent
to take care of that system, and it’s not difficult especially if you take the authors’ suggestion to just
make one change, choose one process a week to
do on a daily basis. After a year that’s 52 changes
which will have a significant effect on your DNA.
The final section offers ideas and data about how
evolution may not be the correct way of seeing
things and that in fact DNA can be changed in real-time. This means what we do today, affects us
in the here and now and sends ripples into our futures.
The ideas that you are what you eat and you are
what you think have been around for a while. This
stimulating book explains the reasons why and
what practical steps you can take to activate the
natural power of your genes to nurture supreme
health and well-being.
Reviewed by Nelly Bright