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Genes, like people, have families — lineages that stretch back through time, all the way to a founding member. That ancestor multiplied and spread, morphing a bit with each new iteration.
For most of the last 40 years, scientists thought that this was the primary way new genes were born — they simply arose from copies of existing genes. The old version went on doing its job, and the new copy became free to evolve novel functions.
Certain genes, however, seem to defy that origin story. They have no known relatives, and they bear no resemblance to any other gene. They’re the molecular equivalent of a mysterious beast discovered in the depths of a remote rainforest, a biological enigma seemingly unrelated to anything else on earth.
The mystery of where these orphan genes came from has puzzled scientists for decades. But in the past few years, a once-heretical explanation has quickly gained momentum — that many of these orphans arose out of so-called junk DNA, or non-coding DNA, the mysterious […]
Hi Stephan: I’ve looked through all of my Saved SchwartzReports for the past few weeks and can’t find one about meditators changing their DNA. Could you please give me a link to that article? Thanks, Judith
Please reference the date of the report re: meditators. I have searched and cannot locate it. Thank you very much.
As with all stories in SR just click on the headline and it will take you to the URL source publication. The date of this report is 18 August 2015.
— Stephan
I never meditated in the sense where one sits quietly, but rather I engaged in other forms of mind quieting and was able to change my DNA over a 4 year period. One does not have to meditate to change their DNA, although it would likely speed up the change process.
To Carol and Judith, look up any article/video by Dr. Bruce Lipton to find in depth info on your ability to change your DNA.
https://www.brucelipton.com/resource/article/the-wisdom-your-cells