Healing Your “Body” Disconnection –
5 Shifts to Re-Connect Your DNA
Your DNA is the unique source code for your operating system. Researchers now know that lifestyle and environmental triggers can modify how your DNA expresses. GMOs, poor health choices, vaccines, radiation, and trauma can all change how your body physically reacts.
“Truth does not contradict truth.” – St. Augustine
Your human body began just as every human being starts out
two cells, one from each parent,
found each other and became one.
And that one cell reproduced itself,
dividing, dividing and dividing
until there were 10 trillion of them.
Do you realize there’s more cells in one person’s body
than there are stars in the Milky Way?
But those 10 trillion cells aren’t just sitting there in a big pile.
Your atoms are organized into you, a human being!
So what is it that says an arm is an arm,
and toes is toes?
What is it that says this is bone
and this is brain
and this is heart.
Everything you are or ever will be made of
starts as a tiny book of instructions
found in each and every cell.
Every time your body wants to make something,
it goes back to the instruction book,
looks it up and puts it together.
So how does one cell hold all that information?
Let’s get small.
I mean, really small — smaller than the tip of a sewing needle.
Then we can take a journey inside a single cell
to find out what makes up the book of you,
your genome.
The first thing we see is that the whole genome, all your DNA,
is contained inside its own tiny compartment,
called the nucleus.
If we stretched out all the DNA in this one cell into a single thread,
it would be over 3 feet long!
We have to make it fit in a tiny compartment
that’s a million times smaller.
We could just bunch it up like Christmas lights,
but that could get messy.
We need some organization.
First, the long thread of DNA wraps around proteins
clustered into little beads called nucleosomes,
Just like you, each one of your cells is on a hero’s journey!
which end up looking like a long, beaded necklace.
And that necklace is wrapped up in its own spiral,
like an old telephone cord.
And those spirals get layered on top of one another
until we get a neat little shape that fits inside the nucleus.
Voilà! Three feet of DNA squeezed into a tiny compartment.
Each tiny mass of DNA is called a chromosome.
The book of you would have 46 chapters,
one for each chromosome.
Twenty-three chapters of your book came from your mom,
and 23 chapters came from your dad.
Two of those chapters, called “X” and “Y,”
determine if you’re male, “XY,”
or female, “XX.”
You have so many senses that began as energy either in a lab you were created or in the old fashion way!
You are unique and beautiful in your biology!
Your body senses UV light, Ultrasound, Magnetic Pull, Infrared, and Electric charge just to name a few of your capabilities!
Put them together, and you get you.
Two almost identical but slightly different sets of 23 chapters.
Your DNA is unique!
The tiny variations are what makes each person different.
It’s estimated that all the chapters together
hold about 20,000 individual instructions, called genes.
Written out, all those 20,000 instructions
are 30 million letters long!
If someone were writing one letter per second,
it would take them almost an entire year to write it once.
It turns out that our genome book is much, much longer
than just those 30 million letters —
almost 100 times longer!
What are all those extra pages for?
The parts we throw out, you can call introns.
The instructions you keep, you call exons.
We can also have hundreds of pages in between each gene.
Some of these excess pages were inserted
by nasty little infections in our ancestors,
but some of them are actually helpful.
They protect the ends of each chapter from being damaged,
or some help our cells find a particular thing they’re looking for,
or give a cell a signal to stop making something.
All in all, for every page of instructions,
there’s almost 100 pages of filler.
In the end, each of our books’ 46 chapters
is between 48 and 250 million letters long.
That’s 3.2 billion letters total!
To type all that copy,
you’d be at it for over 100 years,
and the book would be over 600,000 pages long.
Every type of cell carries the same book,
but each has a set of bookmarks
that tell it exactly which pages it needs to look up.
So a bone cell reads only the set of instructions it needs to become bone.
Your brain cells,
they read the set that tells them how to become brain.
If some cells suddenly decide to start reading other instructions,
they can actually change from one type to another.
So every little cell in your body is holding on to an amazing book,
full of the instructions for life.
Your hair reads hair pages,
your tongue read tongue pages.
