No, You Don't Have Bad Genes

It's the Epigenetic Epidemic. Hold my hand, we'll go through it together.

Imagine a young woman who’s been bombarded by all of the usual toxins in our food, water, air and medicine for her first 20 years of life. Her body’s response to bearing that toxic load might be to switch on so-called “bad genes” that were already present in her body’s genetic makeup — and cause those genes to start expressing themselves. This woman’s DNA has not changed, of course. What’s changed is that her “bad genes” that cause obesity, allow cancer to flourish, or result in diabetes or depression, are now being expressed.

Let’s say this young woman, who may not be feeling the damage just yet, becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son. The baby doesn’t get to start with a clean slate because his body was told to express a little bit of his parents’ “bad genes.” The child is then exposed to his own mountain of toxins, more damage is done, more so-called bad genes are expressed, and the next thing you know, he’s a grown man complaining about cancer, mental illness or diabetes “running in the family.”

Most bad genes don’t run in families — we all have bad genes. Some of them are just shouting louder than others.

What exactly am I talking about? How do you make a bad gene pipe down? It all starts with food. Food should contain the nutrients that nourish life. Not just any food — real food. Traditional food. Strawberries, citrus, grass-fed beef and pastured eggs. The nutrients in real food contain methyl groups that are extracted by our bodies and attached to our bad genes to keep them quiet.

What’s a methyl group? Nothing complicated; just one carbon bound to three hydrogen atoms. Every cell in the human body has the programming to become any kind of cell, but it’s the powerful methyl groups attached to an embryo’s DNA that say, “Hey! Everyone be quiet so I can make this cell into a heart cell, not an eyeball cell.”

Like a hand pressed over a screaming mouth, a tightly methylated cancer gene is a silent one. But our toxic loads are knocking off our protective methyl groups, or making them bind in the wrong places, rendering them useless.

Mainstream social media doctors like to say, “People don’t need detox programs! Our bodies are designed to detox on their own!  Did you pee today? Congratulations, you detoxed!”

Maybe a couple of centuries ago that was true, but these days our bodies aren’t doing a bang-up job in the detox department. Whenever you hear that the 30-year tsunami of childhood chronic illness we’re experiencing is genetic, I want you to remember that there’s no such thing as a genetic epidemic. It takes a million years for our DNA to undergo long-term evolutionary change. We’re not in a genetic epidemic; we’re in an epigenetic epidemic.

Let me walk you through it:

“Epigenetics” is the study of heritable changes that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence.

Starting in the 1940s, people were routinely exposed to lead, mercury, benzene, cadmium, DDT and asbestos. Viva la chemical revolution! They were the first generation to get penicillin and legal speed from their doctors, eat meals cooked on Teflon, and drink fluoride in the water supply. They sat on, worked on and slept on plywood furniture glued together with cancer-causing formaldehyde resin.

To make matters worse, between 1938 and 1971, ten million mothers in the U.S. and UK notoriously took toxic diethylstilbestrol —  a synthetic form of estrogen also known as “DES” — to protect against miscarriage.

A child born in 1950 was subjected to the smallpox vaccine, the first whole-cell DPT vaccine, and 5 years later, the polio mass vaccination program. Their methyl groups were picked off like flies and about 2% of that damage was passed along to their offspring.

By the time that 1950s child became a first-time mother in 1970, she was carrying a toxic load unlike any of the generations that preceded her. Not only did she carry the load, but so did her unborn baby, and if that baby was a girl, the child was born with all of the eggs she would ever have to create her own children.

After being exposed to cigarettes while in utero, that 1970 baby was then given the DPT, polio, smallpox and MMR vaccines along with glutathione-depleting Tylenol for the fevers they caused. She was fed formula instead of nutritious mother’s milk and wore toxic bromine-drenched fire-retardant pajamas so the tobacco industry didn’t have to make a cigarette that wouldn’t burn the house down.

She grew up breathing smog, eating processed food and drinking out of styrofoam cups — and every trip to the ER ended with a big dose of radiation from a CT scan. She got mercury-laden amalgam fillings, took hormone-disrupting birth control in college, and then went on Prozac for the mood swings it caused. She did all of this before becoming a mother in 1995 and her DNA expression was set to be wrecked even more as she aged. Another 2% of her turned-on bad genes got tacked onto the 2% of bad gene expression handed down from her own mother and passed on to that 1995 baby.

The 1995 baby came into the world five years after the disastrous overhaul of the vaccination program and during the first wave of the autism and food allergy tsunami. She received multiple doses of aluminum and mercury-containing DPT, polio, Hib and Hep B vaccines, along with the immune system-assaulting 3-in-1 MMR and the new chickenpox shot so her mom would never miss a day of work to care for her.

The 1995 baby grew up slathered in chemical sunblock and deprived of vitamin D, gnawed on made-in-China BPA teethers and ate genetically modified corn and soy before any of us knew it existed. She was routinely given the flu vaccine in adolescence and got the HPV vaccine as a teen so that when it came to cancer, her parents could rest assured she’d be “one less.”

When that 1995 child becomes a mother in the 2020s, her baby will be a 4th generation time bomb.

Don’t think for one second this is just about mothers — it’s not. Fathers contribute their screaming bad genes 50/50 with mothers to their offspring. Why is the autism rate in military families double that of the rest of us? It’s the over-vaccinated dads.

We are nearly 100 years into destroying the genetic expression and immune system function of the American people. There is an easy explanation for why autism rates continue to double every few years — along with skyrocketing rates of diabetes, arthritis, epilepsy, ADHD and food allergies — our relentless pursuit of self-destruction.

Immunocompromised, genetically-predisposed people are no longer rare; they are everywhere. Our present health crisis is the physical manifestation of every special interest group’s quest to get rich for the past eight decades. Thanks, Dow Chemical.

Here’s the good news: epigenetic expression doesn’t have to be permanent. Methyl groups tell a baby when to grow, they change with puberty and they tell cells when to die. Methyl groups come and go. It’s not too late to make a difference today, and if you’re of childbearing age, you can make a difference not only for yourself and your future child but even for your grandchildren down the road.

To start, research eating a methyl-donating diet. If you’re a woman on hormonal birth control, stop taking it. Don’t use antacids. Decrease stress and learn to meditate. Go grain-free and make sure your dairy intake is from grass-fed cows. Eat more oranges, strawberries, and eggs from pastured chickens. Cut out the soy and corn, and don’t consume any animals that have themselves been fed GM soy and corn. Get some sleep. It’s called a healthy lifestyle, who knew?

You can also add a gram of non-GMO vitamin C powder to your bath water to neutralize chlorine, which is destroying your gut bacteria. Quit drinking tap water. Supplement with S-Adenosyl methionine. Consult with an MTHFR-knowledgeable doctor and figure out which methylfolate is right for you.

Something I’ve done for myself and will do for my own kids when they’re old enough is EDTA IV chelation to remove metals from the body. EDTA is used to chelate mercury and cadmium but it’s especially good at removing lead and cobalt. That said, Dr. Chris Exley says that EDTA itself, especially calcium EDTA, is contaminated with aluminum, which is why test results seem to show it is chelating aluminum. Dr. Exley’s advice on chelating aluminum is to flood with body with naturally-occurring silicon-rich water on an empty stomach, such as Fiji.

The bottom line is this: The next time you hear someone claim that they grew up in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, or 80s and they stood in line to be sprayed with DDT, or played with mercury, or ate toxic waste masquerading as food and they “turned out just fine,” walk away, friend.

It’s not worth the fight. None of us are “just fine,” but anyone older than 40 is not your target audience. Focus your energy on our future and share this information with the young ones who haven’t made babies yet.