Traditional AMA medicine studies are catching up with modern functional medicine. If you attended any of my talks or read through my blog, you know that changing your diet, detoxing your body, and changing your cell membrane permeability all positively affects your genetic predisposition to disease.

This predisposition is called “epigenetics”, and Michael J. Fox described it well. The well-documented celebrity with early-onset Parkinsons’ disease described why he displayed the symptoms of the disease when others in his family had the gene marker but didn’t express any symptoms. He said “The gene was the gun pointing at my head; my lifestyle pulled the trigger”.

I’m helping people every day change their triggers by cleansing inside the cell walls, improving cell permeability, and removing toxins. These people have changed their lives forever. Call today and change yours!

The following is the article about the recent study:

Alter your genes by eating more fruits, veggies

By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times / For the Booster Shots blog

October 12, 2011, 9:48 a.m.

Next time you’re considering skipping the salad bar, think again: Eating more raw fruits and vegetables could alter the effects of a gene that’s a marker for heart disease.Researchers genotyped 27,243 people from two separate studies to see if they had a certain gene variant. The 9p21 gene has been shown in previous studies to be linked with a higher risk of heart attack and cardiovascular disease, including a 2010 meta-analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. that found a statistically significant link between people who had the 9p21 gene variant and a greater chance of developing heart disease.

Despite the luck of the draw, people may be able to do something about it.

The participants in this study represented a number of ethnicities: South Asian, Latin American, Arab, Chinese and European. They were asked about their dietary habits, including how many raw fruits and vegetables they ate, and how often.

Among all the study subjects, those who had the high-risk genotype and ate a diet low in raw vegetables and fruits had a higher risk of heart attack or cardiovascular disease. However, eating a diet high in vegetables and fruits seemed to have a protective effect — that group had a heart attack risk that was comparable to people with a low-risk genotype.

“Our research suggests there may be an important interplay between genes and diet in cardiovascular disease,” said lead author Ron Do, in a news release. Do, who did the study while at McGill University (he’s now at Massachusetts General Hospital) added, “Future research is necessary to understand the mechanism of this interaction, which will shed light on the underlying metabolic processes that the 9p21 gene is involved in.”

The study was published this week in the journal PLoS Medicine.