ARE YOU TRULY AT THE MERCY OF YOUR GENES? By Dr Mandy Buker
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s a human being you are designed to be healthy, happy and strong. Is it your genes or your current lifestyle that has led you to become disengaged from your potential for health? If I were to ask you what your body’s current energy level is on a scale of 1-10, would you be able to tell me? Most people would need to give that some thought. toxic exposures and social interactions). If I were to ask you if you know your phone’s Much of what you may be struggling with, is current battery level to the nearest 10%, a detachment between the choices you would you be able to tell me? make, and the life experience that you want Many people would be able to answer this to have. easily, we know our phones so well. Imagine that you have a thriving house plant Our captivation with modern comforts and hanging in your kitchen. You know what the convenience, has led us to lose touch with plant requires to be healthy, right? Sunshine, our bodies. This process of detachment has clean water, nutrient rich (toxin-free) soil. At not only led to a massive increase in chronic the most basic level, when a plant has this disease but it has also left many of us with a environment, it tends to thrive, grow and feeling of hopelessness. A feeling that our show the traits of a healthy plant. bodies are somehow ‘broken’, that it is all You cannot negotiate with this plant for down to our genes and there is nothing that what it needs to thrive. You cannot compencan be done about it. sate by giving the plant more water instead This is not true. of sunshine. It’s the same with human beings. There are several non-negotiable eleYour body has an innate wisdom and your genetic code is not stagnant, rather it is con- ments we need to feel and perform our best and live a long, healthy life. stantly responding to your daily choices (light, food, drink, thought patterns, sleep,
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