Thousands of years ago, life was way more simple. The wild and primitive society didn’t allow people to grow old that much but it surely was a less stressful life.
For short periods of time, they’d get freaked out, but live a more laid back life for the most. The pattern was spiky and so the biological adaptation of the human body. Our threat defense systems were originally built to protect us from the sabertooth tiger and hunters from the next tribe of that epoch. We’re programmed to activate inflammatory genes to protect us from the infection we might get from wound injuries or infectious disease and not much else. We were built for large periods of relaxation and high degrees of social integration.
Fast forward to now, it’s much more about competition and survival of the fittest within the human race. The things that stress us out these days is subtly turning on those defensive programs every day, every hour.
But that kind of constant threat defense biology is not the way we were built to live, thus, the dysfunctional responses that end up serving as fuel for all the major diseases that kill people today.
Believe it or not, we’re built to live a pretty chilled out existence! But how do we do that now?
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We once believed that our DNA is like our health and longevity prewritten and predestined from the moment we were conceived by our parents.
That’s a myth!
Genetics are not like rocks. Genes are not like curses. There’s so much about what we do and what circumstances we live in that influence and shape what we become out of gene makeup.
Epigeneticist, genomics researcher and professor of medicine at UCLA, Dr. Steven Cole is here to break those myths for us. Pioneering human social genomics, Dr. Cole sheds some light and explains how we have more control over our health than we think.
The DNA is like a menu of options, but the recipe we’re choosing—which genes are turned on—out of that menu is really up to us.
Watch the full video and check out Dr. Kien Vuu’s amazing resource on how you can actually choose that “right recipe” for your health. Get the thrivestatebook.com to learn more!
