Consciousness Influence Epigenetics in the Development of Disease (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781959930419)

When we do not listen to the soul, the body begins to speak.

EPIGENETICS is a mechanism for regulating gene activity independent of DNA sequence that determines which genes are turned on or off: in a particular type, in different disease states, in response to physiological or psychological stimulus, how you feel and how you have been treated. The epigenetic factor ends up in the "health endpoints" Cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental disorder and diabetes - Of great importance to public health. But epigenetic patterns are reversible.

In recent years scientists have been exploring the effects that stress and emotions have on our cells - in particular, on our chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA. What they have found is that our emotions can shape our physical reality at the molecular level. Depressed and stressed people have a shorter life span. Sometimes it can take years of mental stress, sometimes it is an unhappy childhood that causes ill health. Childhood trauma isn't something you just get over as you grow up.

In order to investigate how stress and negative emotions affect health, and to show how consciousness affects epigenetics in the development of disease, questions have been asked and interviews conducted partly with people with the disease meningioma and partly with a healthy control group.

The idea of ​​this study has been a woman in Sweden, Ingegerd Bergstr. She had a brain tumor, meningioma, after 25 years of suffering in a relationship with a psychopath. She underwent surgery and moved away from her husband. After that, she lived healthy and the part of the tumor that could not be removed stopped growing. She has also written a book about her situation and has a group on Facebook, where she has contact with others who have had the same disease. (They are all clear, it is the life situation and how we thought and felt if we become healthy or sick, they say). She herself is convinced that it is the stress that followed through physical and mental abuse that made her ill.