• Gene Regulation by Nutrition

  The nutrients we consume can impact gene expression and the way our genes are regulated. Gene expression can be altered by the environment of a cell. Environmental factors include lifestyle choices and nutrition. Nutrition can modify the cellular processes inside our body for better or worse. Nutrients and vitamins lessen the severity of disease via targeted treatment plans.

Nutritional Science and Gene Expression

• Nutrigenomics is a branch of nutritional science that looks at the interaction of nutrition and genes with regard to the treatment and prevention of disease. By using signalling pathways, vitamins and nutrients influence the rate at which DNA to RNA transcription occurs.

• DNA methylation is the process of adding a methyl group to a DNA molecule. Methyl groups affect the interaction of DNA and protein-producing molecules, and therefore they can activate or silence genes. This is extremely exciting news!

• We now know that 5-8% of our DNA or genetic material is actually retroviral DNA.  What this means is, when retrovirus segments are triggered in the body, the retrovirus then uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to make RNA into DNA, becoming part of our own genetic material inside the cell. Now we have pro-viral DNA that turns on our cell.  Researches have found that when retroviral DNA pieces are activated that it leads to autoimmune illness, neurological disease, and cancer. 

• Stressors trigger the re-activation of retrovirus segments embedded in our DNA. Whilst certain dietary components silence them.  Methylation is the biochemical process (resulting from moving methyl groups) that can silence parts of our DNA. Dietary methyl components include folate, polyphenols and flavonoids in green tea, and phytoestrogen.

• If you are undermethylated, by not having enough methylated folate or methyl B12 of SAM-e, then your body is not able to silence these segments of DNA, triggering retroviral exposures. 

• Maintaining health and preventing chronic disease is not just about taking a multivitamin and eating healthy organic food, which is vitally important.  But it’s also about keeping infections under control and our immune system strong, not allowing retroviruses to be expressed. Health is about being being resilient to all of the pathogens that we encounter in our environment.  

The quality of your health is the direct result of the food you eat, the air you breathe, and the environment you have placed yourself within.

Every time you open your mouth, you are choosing to move toward health or disease.

Have you ever wondered whether your future health and the health of your children is in every mouthful, every single day.