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"It integrates experiences of mind (sensory-perceptual awareness of novelty with the arousal/motivational aspects of the numinosum) with biology (gene expression, protein synthesis, neurogenesis, and healing).... Activity-dependent creative experiences in the arts, cultural rituals, humanities, and sciences as well as the peak experiences of everyday life are all manifestations of the novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis effect." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New biology of Intention (Get the book.) "How things interact is what's more important in biology than just the things that are there. The genome tells us very little, if anything at all, about how things interact."3 For biologists, understanding the mechanics of enormously complex self-organizing systems like the human body is a challenge of much greater magnitude than mapping the genome itself." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New biology of Intention (Get the book.) "In the succinct words of another medical pioneer, "Beliefs become biology"—in our hormonal, neural, genetic, and electromagnetic systems, plus all the complex interactions between them.23 nner and Outer Environment Memory learning, stress, and healing are all affected by classes of genes that are turned on or off in temporal cycles that range from one second to many hours. The environment that activates genes includes both the inner environment—the emotional, biochemical, mental, energetic, and spiritual landscape of the individual—and the outer environment." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New biology of Intention (Get the book.) "While biology has been largely content with chemical explanations of how and why cells work, there are many tantalizing preliminary research findings that show that electromagnetic shifts accompany virtually every biological process. The energy flows in neurons and genes interact with their every process. "There is matter and energy galore flowing through biological systems," says Eldredge. "But it is in the bodies of organisms and their interactions with other organisms and the physical world, in the context of ecosystems, where all that matter and energy flows." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"In other words, we need to move back to our body's innate natural biochemical rhythms and genetic design because in our genes and biology we are still our ancient ancestors—yet we are living at a pace and rhythm that are completely foreign to our genes and biology. Fortunately, when prompted correctly with natural light and good food at the correct time, the right supplements, appropriate exercise, and exposure to nature, our genetic clocks can reset themselves." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"However, once I was immersed in the Caribbean's rich ecosystem, I began to appreciate biology as a living, breathing integrated system rather than a collection of individual species sharing a piece of the earth's turf. Sitting quietly within garden-like island jungles and snorkeling among the jeweled coral reefs gave me a window into the island's amazing integration of plant and animal species. All live in a delicate, dynamic balance, not only with other life forms, but with the physical environment as well." - Bruce H. Lipton, The biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

"Major interests: Developmental biology and biomedical technology assessment VICE CHAIRMAN: John Cairns Professor Department of Microbiology Harvard School of Public Health Boston, Mass. Major interest: Molecular biology MEMBERS: Robert J. Berliner Dean Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Conn. Major interests: Physiology of the kidney, particulary with respect to fluid and electrolyte transport Selwyn A. Broitman Assistant Dean and Professor of Microbiology and Nutritional Sciences Department of Microbiology Boston University School of Medicine Boston, Mass." - Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, Assembly of Life Sciences National Research Council, Diet, Nutrition and Cancer (Get the book.)

"I returned to Wisconsin a screaming radical bent on challenging the sacred foundational beliefs of biology. I even began to openly criticize Charles Darwin and the wisdom of his theory of evolution. In the eyes of most other biologists, my behavior was tantamount to a priest bursting into the Vatican and claiming the Pope was a fraud. My colleagues could be forgiven for thinking a coconut had hit me on the head when I quit my tenured position and, fulfilling my life's dream to be in a rock 'n' roll band, took off on a music tour." - Bruce H. Lipton, The biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

"In New Cardiology, we focus on the integrity and function of the endothelium—that is, the biology of the cells lining the arteries. We never give up because of high-grade narrowing. And we don't hold off treating a patient just because only a moderate narrowing is seen. We know we can always influence the biology of the lining of the cells. The Speed of Plaque How fast does plaque develop into a killer? That depends. We have been shocked many times by people who form plaques within six months. All cardiologists have seen this. That's the nature of coronary artery disease." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"In other words, we need to move back to our body's innate natural biochemical rhythms and genetic design because in our genes and biology we are still our ancient ancestors—yet we are living at a pace and rhythm that are completely foreign to our genes and biology. Fortunately, when prompted correctly with natural light and good food at the correct time, the right supplements, appropriate exercise, and exposure to nature, our genetic clocks can reset themselves." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Biofeedback means that you can alter your biology if you can see it in action and practice making it go in a direction associated with feeling better. Many biofeedback therapists do work on helping people learn new ways to breathe, but few use the special equipment needed to measure levels of exhaled carbon dioxide. Since devices to do this have been expensive until recently, appreciation of breathing pattern disorders by both doctors and psychologists is not as high as it should be, and so this cause of symptoms often goes unrecognized." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The condensed version of the pill's development starts with Gregory Pincus, an early-twentieth-century American physician, biologist, and researcher who studied hormonal biology and steroidal hormones. At a meeting in 1953, feminist and birth-control activists Margaret Sanger and Katherine McCormick encouraged the scientist to create an oral contraceptive that would give women more freedom over their reproductive and sexual choices. The idea struck him as a good one, so Pincus sought out the pharmaceutical company Searle, thinking they would share his enthusiasm and fund his research." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"It is a tapestry of ideas—a picture of many colors, drawing upon many areas: physics, biology, philosophy, religion, psychology, and personal experience, to name but some. Not all of the ideas will be new to you. What may be new is the picture that forms as the various themes weave together. Then the familiar becomes fascinating, and a new vision emerges of ourselves and our place in the Universe. In building on the contemporary scientific understanding of the world, I do not wish to imply that this worldview is necessarily correct." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Therefore, you should understand some of the basic facts and biology of stress. What Is Stress? One person's stress is another's satisfaction, so there really is no way to guess what will cause a stress reaction in any one person. Lots of factors may determine what kinds of events will cause you stress; some may be genetic, while others may have to do with specific kinds of situations. And different people will try to cope with stress in different ways. I define stress as behavioral and biological reactions to some disturbance in your personal environment." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"It's a fundamental paradigm of biology that has powerful and sometimes surprising results. In the 1980s, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) commissioned a study on the health impacts of sustained radiation exposure. They compared two groups of nuclear shipyard workers from Baltimore who had similar jobs except for a single key difference: one group was exposed to very low levels of radiation from the materials they handled, and the other was not. The DOE tracked the workers between 1980 and 1988, and what they found shocked everyone involved. Radiation made them healthier." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"In this way, scientists can discover differences that might lead to an understanding of the biology of the disease. Another kind of clinical research consists of doing drug trials. Drug trials have two purposes: to develop new treatments to help patients with a disease, and to prove specific ideas about how a given disease is caused. I gave you one example in the last chapter when I discussed the BioBran trial. A positive outcome would have provided ammunition for the immune dysfunction hypothesis as the cause of CFS. Another example was a trial of an antiviral medication in people with CFS." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"When you begin to see the vast spectrum of differences in body language throughout the world, it makes sense that display rules are based on culture, not on biology The reason couples in Puerto Rico touch each other 180 times more often than couples in England has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with how often their parents touched them, and their grandparents touched their parents, and so on and so on . . . back to the time of Stonehenge. As we become a global society, divergent cultural norms inch closer and closer to each other with each generation." - Tonya Reiman, The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter (Get the book.)

"A 2006 study in the science journal Free Radical biology and Medicine reported finding that three commonly used chemicals in sunscreens to filter ultraviolet rays ?octyl-methoxycinnamate, benzophenone 3, and octocrylene ?can soak into deeper skin layers after application, leaving top skin layers vulnerable to UVB radiation, while reacting to UVA light in those deeper layers to generate free radicals." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"When you begin to see the vast spectrum of differences in body language throughout the world, it makes sense that display rules are based on culture, not on biology The reason couples in Puerto Rico touch each other 180 times more often than couples in England has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with how often their parents touched them, and their grandparents touched their parents, and so on and so on . . . back to the time of Stonehenge. As we become a global society, divergent cultural norms inch closer and closer to each other with each generation." - Tonya Reiman, The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter (Get the book.)

"But first, here is some introductory biology to set the stage and help you understand why you feel the way you do. How Your Ovaries Age Ovarian decline is not a sudden process. Your ovaries have been on the decline, physiologically, since you were born. On the first day of your life you had somewhere between 1 to 2 million eggs in your ovaries. Every 137 day since then your egg supply has been gradually dwindling. By the time you hormonally peaked as a teenager, your egg count was down to a mere 400,000, (talk about ticking clocks)." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Experimental biology and Medicine. 2006;231:594-598. Hertog MG, Feskens EJ, Hollman PC, Katan MB, Kromhout D. Dietary antioxidant flavinoids and risk of coronary heart disease: The Zutphen Elderly Study. Lancet. 1993 Oct23;342(8878):1007-1011. Knekt P, Isotupa S, Rissanen H, Heliovaara M, larvinen R, Hakkinen S, Aromaa A, Reunanen A. Quercetin intake and the incidence of cerebrovascular disease. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2000 May;54(5):415-417. Liu RH, Liu I, Chen B. Apples prevent mammary tumors in rats. ] Agric Food Chem. 2005 Mar 23;53(6):2341-2343." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"As Felix Franks, of the University of Cambridge, said in a New Scientist article, "The Quantum Elixir," "Without water, it is all chemistry, but add water and you get biology."30 Water in a living organism is called biological water. Can this type of water imprint and transmit information? Does water have memory? These are among the revolutionary questions facing frontier biologists, and they are finding that the answers are yes and yes. "The Quantum Elixir" article was devoted to water's role in biological activity—its behavior around DNA, in cells, and elsewhere in the body." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "These correspondences confirmed yet again how Peter's map of the body-field correlated bioenergetics with biology. The Energetic Driver Infoceuticals are numbered—from one to sixteen—according to this sequence of survival importance to the body. You always take the Infoceuticals in otder, taking the lowest numbered 1 Source Driver is the major biofield that is correlated to Source energy, which is a motive force for growth and homeostasis. The Imprinter Driver field supports information transfer from the heart to the entire body." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Bruce Lipton and described in his book The biology of Belief, considers the cell membrane the brain of the cell. The cell membrane is greatly affected by extracellular signaling, and insulin and glucose are extracellular signalers; consequently, both influence intracellular signaling by their action on the cell membrane. These genetically predisposed people had a much higher level of intramyocellular lipids, which seems to be significant. Intramyocellular fat accumulates to a certain extent, and tends to interfere with insulin's intracellular signaling process." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"This kind of coherence surfaces in fields as diverse as quantum physics, biology, cosmology, and brain and consciousness research. COHERENCE IN THE DOMAIN OF THE QUANTUM The first experiment to demonstrate the coherence of quanta was conducted by Thomas Young in 1801. In Young's "double-slit experiment" (noted in the previous chapter) light is allowed to pass through a filtering screen with two slits. The beam of light is extremely weak so that each light particle—photon—is emitted separately (in current versions of the experiment, lasers are used for this purpose)." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"We're talking about the realm of genes and molecules, where mainstream medicine is just beginning to put to good use the hard-earned knowledge gained from other scientific disciplines like molecular biology and nutritional science. We know that if you think about and act on the small stuff, you can get huge results: the vast majority of cases of type 2 diabetes can be prevented altogether or treated much more effectively if you use all the tools at your disposal." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Melatonin protects genetic material from mutation, according to Russell Reiter, professor of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas. "Night light suppresses the body's production of melatonin and thus can increase the risk of cancer-related mutations," he told a gathering in London. Scott Davis, chairman of the department of epidemiology at the University of Washington, stated that "while the link between light at night and cancer may seem like a stretch on the surface, there is an underlying biological basis for it." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"We know we can always influence the biology of the lining of the cells. The Speed of Plaque How fast does plaque develop into a killer? That depends. We have been shocked many times by people who form plaques within six months. All cardiologists have seen this. That's the nature of coronary artery disease. It can be like a snowball rolling down the hill. It gathers bulk as it increases momentum. Stress can speed things up. For a cardiac patient, emotional stress is deadly. Blood vessels can spasm and tighten up, creating more deficiency to the heart." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"HEART HEALTH: A few grams of cloves per day boosted insulin function while lowering cholesterol, according to two reports presented at the 2006 Experimental biology meeting in San Francisco. The clove study found that all participants who ingested cloves, regardless of the amount, showed a drop in glucose, triglycerides, and LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels. Blood levels of HDL ("good") cholesterol remained unaffected. Clove oil was found to inhibit lipid peroxidation, which can lead to heart disease." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"These active ingredients are avobenzone (also called Parsol 1789 or butyl methoxydibenzoyl-methane), titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, Tinosorb, and Mexoryl SX (ecamsule) (Sources: Free Radical Research, April 2007, pages 461-468; Mutation Research, April 2007, pages 71-78; International Journal of Radiation biology, November 2006, pages 781-792; Photodermatology, Photoimmunology, &Photomedicine, December 2000, pages 250-255; and Photochemistry and Photobiology, March 2000, pages 314-320)." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

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