DNA, Epigenetics and Genetics

GI Cancers

There have been a lot of scary thoughts about DNA contamination in the news lately and our last post had GI cancer mentioned, so I’m going to dig into this one to help us see that a deadly cancer may not be as written into our genes as we may have been led to think it is.

It may be a bit early to know if getting a little extra DNA put into your own body is a bad thing or not, but since I’m a woman with 3 grown children, I may already know a thing or 3 about this, and my takeaway is this-

as long as you gave your consent to having that DNA freely put in your body, the consequences are most likely your responsibility.

Hopefully, Professor Chapman can help us understand this a bit better.

“We tested here the effects of one enigmatic seminal fluid protein, known as the ‘sex peptide’, and found it to change the expression of a remarkable array of many genes in females- both across time and in different parts of the body.”

In other words, Sex Can Cause Genetic Changes In Women.

If your mind went in the same directions mine did in regard to what you let get put into your body, you might appreciate this intriguing bit of knowledge as well:

“The genetic tests showed that even though the second male fertilized the eggs, the offsprings’ size was determine by the condition of the first male,” she says of her findings, published in the journal Ecology Letters. “The cool thing is that the non-genetic effects we are seeing are not necessarily tied to the fertilization itself.”

Cool, or really disturbing. The implications of the study are that any mates a female has had may leave some legacy—in the form of physical or other traits that are carried in the semen (but not the DNA-containing sperm)—that could show up in her future offspring with another mate.
The Problem With Ex-es: How Previous Partners Affect Your Offspring | TIME

What’s even more interesting about all of this is that the old, stodgy, fun hating, ancient patriarchs like St. Paul didn’t need Watson and Crick to tell them things about virgins and family genetic lines and swapping DNA with someone else to illuminate how this kind of thing can have lasting effects on an entire person’s soul and heritage-

Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

I’ll leave you with all of those promiscuous scientific, genetic thoughts, but I’m sure some people don’t want you to feel too violated by science so, think about biomimetics for a minute or two.

Biomimetics is the technological outcome of the act of borrowing or stealing ideas from nature.

You may also recall us mentioning that there are things we do to ourselves and things that are done to us that cause mitochondrial switches to be flipped which can tell our DNA what to do. Professor Seyfried has been doing a lot of work looking at cancer from a metabolic disease perspective.

Emerging evidence indicates that impaired cellular energy metabolism is the defining characteristic of nearly all cancers regardless of cellular or tissue origin.

And Stephanie Seneff from MIT has been doing a lot of looking into what she sees as a major factor in our environmental gut problems and how this may be linked to many of our modern diseases.

……we propose that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide, Roundup^®, is the most important causal factor in this epidemic.

I have an interest in this GI topic since ongoing GI issues have been a lingering Covid problem for me and many other people I know.

People who have had COVID-19 are at increased risk of developing gastrointestinal (GI) disorders within a year after infection compared with people who haven’t been infected, according to an analysis of federal health data by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care system.

Such conditions include liver problems, acute pancreatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, and ulcers in the lining of the stomach or upper intestine. The post-COVID-19 GI tract also is associated with an increased likelihood of constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloating and vomiting.

Dr. Ben Lynch, adds some additional perspective.

Your genes are not your destiny (but are important to understand).

Now, let’s talk about our destiny and how we can change it.

I was reminded of deep DNA soul changes while watching a cute Valentine video that my new daughter made of my son and their new beautiful baby who was baptized by my son on January 6th, the day of Epiphany. As I watched him joyfully interacting with his baby, I took comfort in knowing that many of our past family traits are not necessarily written into our family DNA tree to the extent we may have been led to believe. I don’t want us to be afraid of bad DNA or DNA contamination because we may come from a long line of people with GI disorders, diseases, and cancers or because we let science inject DNA into us, and while we should take this seriously, there is Hope for all of us. As my favorite and only Aunt Chris, has sort of said, we were a bunch of pagans, but we’re not anymore because we’ve had a lifesaving blood transfusion that has definitely altered our DNA. Did you know that if you put a ‘t’ on the end of Chris’ feminine name it will reveal something gloriously male?

I think we can learn from what other people living with GI problems do to help themselves, so my tip of the day is to use your interweb skills to search these things out for yourself or ask a friend with GI problems what they do to find comfort. But always remember to pray first. I have done a bit of GI research and will be providing my research links to paid subscribers at the end of this newsletter. If any of our cherished free subscribers are too sick and tired, or broke, or technically challenged, or even time challenged, I have been known to comp. paid subscriptions, so maybe we can work out a deal if you really need the free help. And if you want to know more about what Paul knew, before science failed to tell you the rest of the story, paid subscribers will get access to that. Also, since it is walking miracle month, I would like to introduce you to another walking miracle, my dad’s dad.

For some reason, I have been thinking about sacred things being thrown down, trampled on, and maybe even destroyed or killed, because this is the anniversary month of when my grandfather was blown out of the sky over Austria/Hungary while he was in the tail end of a B-17. He fell 27,000 ft, became a POW, walked all over Germania with broken pieces of himself, and not only lived to talk about it, but his sacred salvation story led to my own life being born. Human life is very sacred. One should think very carefully about what one does with it or to it. I will be sharing the link to his amazing death-defying story (paid subscribers) at the end of this newsletter. What’s even more striking about all of this is that my grandfather’s grandfather, the Bishop of London, lived in high church places, and he thought that puritanical, Americanized, Britan peasants like us didn’t know a butt load of crap about the gospel, but they really did! Grandpa Bishop would probably be rolling over in his grave right now except the New World, pilgrim peasants saved Britlandia from Germainia, so he probably isn’t rolling over in his grave as much.

Also, I would like to mention that our main page has a search feature on it that works quite well. This may come in handy as we now have a years’ worth of material in our reference library. You can use it to do key word searches for things we may have already covered here, so that you can refer back to or even find what you are looking for. We also have a few tabs at the top of the home page that are keeping some things organized by topic, and you might even find additional links to articles that have been written but have not been included in the regular email drop.

As always-

*Leaving Death in the Dust is a newsletter and is not a replacement for professional, regulated, medical, healthcare. This is informational and educational. Some of us in this community may have worked in the healthcare system, but we are not your medical provider and whatever you find here is not the establishment of a professional medical relationship or medical advice. **That is an MT behind my name not an MD.

Best Wishes,

Steph