John Demartini explains how your values shape what you perceive, triggering neurotransmitters and hormones that travel through your body and chemically modify your DNA. When experiences match your priorities, these molecules can turn genes on or off through epigenetic changes to histone proteins.
epigenetics. So my understanding is that it really is as simple as our thoughts impact our genes. Is that right?
Well, what happens is each individual has a set of values, a set of priorities that they live their life by, and whenever they perceive things, they filter things through those values. And whenever things support their values, they literally induce a series of polypeptides and amino acid-derived neurotransmitters, neuroregulators, and modulators, and hormones. And these affect cell walls throughout the body depending on how they're distributed. And those cell walls initiate a cascading of enzymes that literally what they call methylate or acetylate the genes and the histone proteins around the genes and alter transcription and protein function, and literally the cells find change. So our perceptions based on our values and our beliefs have a vast impact on cellular function, and we now know that we can literally turn on and turn off various genes. And now we're getting it down to, like we first discovered the genome, now we're understanding the epigenome, how different emotions are actually impacting precise genetics down to different amino acid sequences that are being manufactured and literally regressing or
