Grandma was right 3
An earlier study indicated that Grandma was probably right in her "superstitions" about maternal experiences influencing the life of the baby. Folk wisdom specifies things a mother shouldn't think about, or things she should say or hear in order to have a healthy baby. "Scientific" thinkers have always dismissed this connection, but geneticists are now realizing that genes can carry information from temporary experiences, not just the unchangeable results of previous matings.

Now a new finding in epigenetics expands this concept into food and nutrition.

Pre-numeric cultures have lots of specific rules about food and medicine. Many of these rules require picking plants under just the right geographical conditions, and at just the right phase of the moon. Others, such as the laws of kosher and halal slaughter, pertain to the exact position of an animal when it's killed, and the exact sequence of actions in the slaughter.



Reductionist science has dismissed all of these, calling them witchcraft or religious nonsense. Food is just an inert collection of proteins, amino acids, vitamins and minerals.

Nope.

Chinese researchers have now shown that our genes are not only regulated by our microRNA, they are also regulated by the microRNA in the food we eat. In other words, food not only contains carbohydrates, proteins, fat, minerals, vitamins and so forth, it also contains information, in the form of these regulatory snippets of miRNA, which regulates our gene production.

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The finding is obviously very thought-provoking; for instance, it would indicate that in addition to eating "materials" (in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, etc), you are also eating "information". Different miRNAs from distinct food sources could well bear different consequences on the regulation of host physiology once taken by the host due to potential regulation of different target genes as determined by the "information" contained within the miRNA sequence.

So the 'mood' of the plant at the time of picking, or the 'mood' of the animal at the time of slaughter, can have a distinct effect on our organs and nerves.

More broadly, the complete 'lifestyle' of the animal or plant will determine its patterns of gene messengers. If it spent a lot of time under stress, it was trying to revise its eggs or seeds to suit those conditions.

Clearly this opens up an entirely new field of science and medicine. The details of these connections are completely unexplored and unknown. With some caution, the records of old "superstitions" could give a springboard: rules or remedies that are widespread across cultures might indicate a well-observed relationship.

Labels: Grand Blueprint, Natural law = Sharia law

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