Our Genes, Our Environment, Our Choice for Health

Dr. William Ryan Shelton, medical director and owner of Diet Doc Weight Loss Program reports….it's now scientifically well established which our genes and environment together create the knowledge of life which we call the expertise of reality.Health and disease are actually seen as a continuum which an individual’s genes and environment interplay to determine who we are, how we feel, how we live, and how we die.For any one individual, either the genes or even the specific environment may be incompatible with health or even life.As human beings we will have a third influence which, assuming the genes and environment usually are not severely incompatible with each other, can drastically alter our reality of health insurance and illness: choice.Unfortunately, most of us don't believe our choices hold that much potential.

Comprehensives research indicates that we not only possess the capacity to change our minds and behavior, we also have the ability to change our hormones, our neurotransmitters, the manner by which our brains are connected, our immune systems, our digestive systems, and so forth.How we choose to live, that is changing the environment our genes experience, can and does change our body’s chemistry and function.Probably the most commonly asked question I get regarding this problem is: "How long does it take?"Science is simply now starting to answer this question.

Researchers from Princeton University are showing that it requires an average of 90 days of consistent behavior change (making different alternatives) for more permanent habits to be formed.It has relevance for addictions, diet, exercise, stress reduction, etc.

Researchers from Harvard University are showing that it requires on average 2.5 hours per week for 10-12 weeks of behavior change practicing for more permanent habits to become formed.

Researchers from all over the world have revealed in animal studies that it generally takes roughly the same as about one month of recent gene/environment interplay for each year (equivalent) of gene/environment interplay which caused a chronic disease in order for physiologic changes to become permanent.

Surveys from physicians around the world reveal that for each and every year an individual has were built with a chronic disease, it normally takes 1-2 months for those symptoms to resolve when treated.

Tha harsh truth so far is that it's going to take initial persistence and determination understanding that changes of the permanent nature take time to develop.Needless to say relapses to old behavior always impede the healing process.