How to override your bad genes with food

April 14, 3:40 PMSacramento Nutrition ExaminerAnne Hart

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Science is trying to find a way for you to override your bad genes with food, nutrients, and removing toxic substances such as plasticizers from your body. Okay, not every one your bad genes can be fixed. But certainly many of your genetic variations that have those little tags and switches that you can turn on and off with food, nutrients, and sometimes lifestyles such as walking 45 minutes several days a week.

How you do override your bad genes is by protecting all your genes with antioxidants and oils that have gene repair abilities. Switching on the good genes that repair other genes is part of the science of epigenetics.

To protect your genes, first look to fish oil containing enough DHA. Why? Because DHA helps to repair 504 genes. But the DHA needs to be balanced with EPA to work. Is the vitamin consultant at your health food store experienced enough to guide you?

What about the nutritionist you consult at your HMO? Who can you turn to? Start reading for self-empowerment to at least know how various nutrients affects your body. Next, do you know whether you are getting enough zinc, but not too much because zinc is in charge of 33 gene? Next comes vitamin D3, in its natural form, not the synthetic D2...because vitamin D3 communicates with more than 200 genes. How much do you need? 1,000mgs? Less? What does your body require to override bad gene tags that need to be switched off while the good gene tags are switched on?

How can you help yourself to override your bad gene variations? Whatever gets rid of all that plastic in our bodies.  It's glutathione (Recancostat) because it binds to some toxic chemicals in your body and flushes them into your liver, gall bladder, and colon, finally removing them from your body. Plastics show up 10,000 times more than other pollutants in our bodies, even more than heavy metals. And there's a pathway that rids your body of plastics. Your body makes glucuronic acid that catches nasty chemicals like glutathione, where they end up in your color or urine and are eliminated as waste.

These are some ways to override bad stuff. But look out for enzymes made by your intestines that force you to re-absorb toxic chemicals back into your body. Guess what makes these enzymes in your gut? It's red meat eaten in large quantities or in diets that constantly emphasize red meat, especially char-broiled red meat.

This enzyme made by your gut after you eat lots of red meat is called beta-glucuronidase. So now you need a safety net, and your body makes D-glucaraic acid that stops your enzyme called B-glucuronidase from putting toxic chemicals back into your bloodstream.

The information on this you'll find in a lot greater  detail in Total Wellness newsletter, April 2009. But the point of this is that there are nutrients and foods out there that are simple, wholesome, and cost-efficient that have the ability to override a lot of your bad genes and reduce the risk in them at least while you're eating right.

Maybe all you need is B12 or a multiple vitamin in a sublingual form you can absorb better as you age, or whole foods, or maybe CO-Q10 or magnesium, or even Omega 3 fatty acids DHA and EPA balanced with Omega 9 found in avocados and a little Omega 6 found in extra virgin olive oil. Or maybe you need a swig of Kyolic liquid aged garlic to get rid of the H. pylori in your stomach that is giving you acid reflux. 

Only  you know when you ask the right questions of your physician, and then get a second opinion from someone trained in complementary, alternative, integrative, and preventive medicine. The answer is out there. You need to find out all the possibilities existing right now to help you override any genetic variations that can be helped with nutrition or lifestyle changes. 

Read the latest findings on why you need more (and how much) vitamin D3 to prevent heart disease, calcifications, autoimmune chronic diseases, diabetes, and recurrent infections. See the article, Dobnig, H. Independent association of low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, Archives of Internal Medicine, 168; 12:1330-49, 2008.

Many nutritionists recommend about 1,000 mgs daily, but the dose you take is up to you and your consultation with your own doctor. But be aware of what is written and researched out there and find out how it applies to you as an individual because we all have different needs and many variations in our genes. When you change your diet, do you change your genes?

How do you switch on the good genes and switch off the bad genes when you change your foods? It's about nutrigenomics. Watch this uTube video by Dr. Mark Hyman. Start your own research and reading program on what better foods and  lifestyles work for you. Can you change your life by changing your diet? Find out how to grow your telemeres and reverse the effects of stress on your genes. When you're looking for hope, start by looking for validation. It works.