my best life 07.04.17.1205P

How it’s members look, food and fashion preferences,
senses of humor and phobias can all be different. For
those factors that were not environmentally molded, you
have to take into account the genetic make-up of each
individual at the time of BIRTH as an added factor of
diversity.
All of us are a genetic consequence of our parents. At the
moment of conception, we each receive a set of twentythree
chromosomes from our mother and father as seen
in Figure 1 - 78. Within these chromosomes are genes,
and within the genes are strips of coded DNA.
Until recently, science assumed that once you received
your DNA, it was locked inside every cell in your body and
would remain unaltered, unaffected by your life choices
and experiences. The food you ate or the stress you
endure during your life would have no direct effect on
your genes and DNA which make you unique.
These same rules applied to your parents, your grandparents
and your great-grand-parents and as far back as
you can imagine. Their genes were simply passed on to
the next generation and the experiences they accumulated
in their lifetimes (food they ate, stresses they endured,
toxins they may have been exposed to) were never
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