EpiCentering

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Today I learned that each cell in your body probably has its own, unique, DNA due to "somatic mutations". Presumably we accumulate new mutations every day, so we are literally not the same person we were yesterday, or will be tomorrow. Live in the moment, away from your past and before the future. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2016.02.004

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Eating a fast-food diet formed new connections in Dr Chris' brain associated with addiction which lasted "at least six weeks". How has your diet affected your brain? What else are you doing today to positively or negatively affect you? Be mindful. Each thought, decision and action is important.

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"Dopamine is about getting pleasure from LIFE, not CAKE". When you get pleasure from CAKE, (or other addictive substances) your brain rewards you and craves more. That's not healthy. Live your LIFE in the present, with all its wonderful possibilities, and your brain will reward you for that instead!

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It's incredible the reach epigenetics has if you take the broader definition of epigenetics being a change in gene expression. What doesn't cause a change in gene expression? From smoking to exercising, eating, meditating, social interaction, early life stress, and even reportedly treatment for PTSD, everything we do changes us at one or more levels.