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Wow! I love how science is proving the connection between the mind-body. I also love how this validates that WE hold the key to our future health! We can change our genetic expression by our thoughts, our lifestyle, and our diet! Nutrigenomics is a break through evolving field that explores how various foods have the power turn on promoter regions of the DNA through processes such as methylation of acetylation. This means that we can actually modulate cancer suppressor and promoter regions via the food we eat! What does this mean? Well, for example, eating foods containing high methyl groups, such as dark leafy greens, can actually affect your ability to prevent cancer by DNA expression!

Are you concerned I’ve lost my marbles?? I like Bruce Lipton because he explains this process in a fundamental way, but there’s so much more. Check out this insert from the John’s Hopkins Cancer Center if you want “real” science. Although, they may be explaining how cancer can be detected by methylation, they are definitely saying epigenomics is at work here!

Perspectives in Cancer Research

A Gene Hypermethylation Profile of Human Cancer1

Manel Esteller2,, 3, Paul G. Corn2, Stephen B. Baylin and James G. Herman4

The Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21231

ABSTRACT

We are in an era where the potential exists for deriving comprehensive profiles of DNA alterations characterizing each form of human cancer. Such profiles would provide invaluable insight into mechanisms underlying the evolution of each tumor type and will provide molecular markers, which could radically improve cancer detection. To date, no one type of DNA change has been defined which accomplishes this purpose. Herein, by using a candidate gene approach, we show that one category of DNA alteration, aberrant methylation of gene promoter regions, can enormously contribute to the above goals. We have now analyzed a series of promoter hypermethylation changes in 12 genes (p16INK4a, p15INK4b, p14ARF, p73, APC,5 BRCA1, hMLH1, GSTP1, MGMT, CDH1, TIMP3, and DAPK), each rigorously characterized for association with abnormal gene silencing in cancer, in DNA from over 600 primary tumor samples representing 15 major tumor types. The genes play known important roles in processes encompassing tumor suppression, cell cycle regulation, apoptosis, DNA repair, and metastastic potential. A unique profile of promoter hypermethylation exists for each human cancer in which some gene changes are shared and others are cancer-type specific. The hypermethylation of the genes occurs independently to the extent that a panel of three to four markers defines an abnormality in 70–90% of each cancer type. Our results provide an unusual view of the pervasiveness of DNA alterations, in this case an epigenetic change, in human cancer and a powerful set of markers to outline the disruption of critical pathways in tumorigenesis and for derivation of sensitive molecular detection strategies for virtually every human tumor type.

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So, if methylation is the issue, why not use FOODS that affect this!