Can we discuss DNA restructuring?

[Fyrestorm]

I was watching something on the disaster in the Gulf - (I know, weird kick off). Scientists were discussing the Phytoplankton and how the chemical dispersants seem to have altered their DNA. They were talking about how it won't be known for many generations what the mutagenic issues with the plankton and the creatures that feed on the plankton will be.

so - what are the chemicals that are being forced on children and those that were forced on us and our parents doing to future generations.

One of things the talked about was cancers popping up - I'm wondering how much impact vaccines have had on the huge upsurge in cancer in our lifetimes.

[Otto]

Originally Posted by Fyrestorm

so - what are the chemicals that are being forced on children and those that were forced on us and our parents doing to future generations.

I imagine that not actually being plankton helps, although I am certainly concerned about that end of the food chain. Just to get it straight, though, Oil Spill = Mutated Plankton DNA = Just Like Vaccines = Cancer?

[mamakah]

[serenbat]

it is of interest to me as well--

http://www.scienceboard.net/communit...tives.136.html

http://www.zeitlerweb.com/about-2/im...lague-and-hiv/

immunity to bubonic plague fascinates me

[Pirogi]

The mutations bringing about the origin of similar stereo-chemical modifications of the molecular constitution of the victim reduce or even liquidate the safety of adequate intermolecular interactions and, accordingly, reduce the successfulness of the microbial aggression. The organisms possessing this modified molecular constitution are incapable of being affected with the microbe; they are not susceptible to this disease and are constitutionally immune to it. On repeated exposure to a given pathogen, the progeny of genetically immune mutants will finally predominate in a population; an individual protective mutation becomes a property of a group, then of a population and finally most of the species. Thus epidemics delete susceptible individuals from a population and the population gets inherent constitutional immunity.

Fascinating! I had never heard of "constitutional immunity!" It gives the term "herd immunity" a new spin, no?

[Marnica]

Of equal importance is epigentics (IMO). The fact that environmental exposures (including vaccines) have the power to alter gene expression in ourselves and future generations is terrifying to me. Do they damage or cause DNA setructuring or mutation? Maybe, but I have no doubt that they have the power to turn genes on and off and probably have have played a huge role in the explosion of cancer and chronic disease in the last 50 years.

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.o...etics-workshop

[ILoveMyBabyBird]

Originally Posted by Otto

I imagine that not actually being plankton helps, although I am certainly concerned about that end of the food chain. Just to get it straight, though, Oil Spill = Mutated Plankton DNA = Just Like Vaccines = Cancer?

I think of it more simply as Synthetic Petroleum Products=Cancer and many other things

I just got a great book at the library i plan to read, and i wasn't sure what it was going to be like but it appears to point straight to the 4 epidemics: AdHD, Allergies, Autism and Asthma being directly related to the double amount vaccines kids now receive vs: pre-1991. There is definitely something going on in the vaccines to activate or deactivate genes/signals in bodies with the increase in these diseases. (In addition to other toxic pollutants in our environment)

I am very leary of seafood now because of the oil spill, it is a sad thing, sea food was once a great asset to our species, I watched a documentary that theorizes that that is why homo sapiens brain developed so quickly was due to seafood, but now if you not careful it can really harm your brain, (the brain of fetuses especially).

[JaneS]

Originally Posted by Marnica

Of equal importance is epigentics (IMO). The fact that environmental exposures (including vaccines) have the power to alter gene expression in ourselves and future generations is terrifying to me. Do they damage or cause DNA setructuring or mutation? Maybe, but I have no doubt that they have the power to turn genes on and off and probably have have played a huge role in the explosion of cancer and chronic disease in the last 50 years.

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.o...etics-workshop

I agree... and my favorite primer on epigenetics, NOVA's program "The Ghost in Your Genes" directly shows how nutrition effects our epigenome.

And not only has our processed food diet, stripped soils, and factory farms greatly changed the quality of food available to everyone today... environmental chemicals greatly effect our body's ability to process nutrients (and use up more nutrients to detox) as well.

Chemicals interfere with vitamin A pathways:

Vitamin A (retinol), and vitamin A hormone (retinoic acid), must be present in our bodies for normal functioning of the immune system and for the protein synthesis processes involved in reproduction. Lack of retinoic acid, the hormone form of vitamin A, characterizes most human autoimmune diseases. The question is whether these diseases are caused by lack of vitamin A or whether lack of vitamin A is caused by autoimmune disease? It turns out that lack of vitamin A is a precondition for the development of many if not all autoimmune diseases. This leads us to ask, what causes a lack of vitamin A?

There are three reasons for a lack of vitamin A in humans. One reason is genetic, a second is dietary, and the third involves exposure to ECs [environmental chemicals]
http://www.westonaprice.org/environm...-pathways.html