Genetics
Our genes are a part of who we are, so naturally they impact our health. By knowing more about your DNA, you may be able to take steps towards living a healthier life.
Most diseases involve many genes in complex interactions, in addition to environmental influences. An individual may not be born with a disease but may be at high risk of acquiring it. This is called a genetic predisposition or susceptibility. The genetic susceptibility to a particular disease due to the presence of one or more gene mutations, and/or a combination of alleles need not necessarily be abnormal.
Researchers all around the globe have done extensive work on major noncommunicable diseases, like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and some mental illnesses. In some cases, such as cancer, individuals are born with genes that are altered by lifestyle habits or exposure to chemicals. Cancer, for example, may involve tumour-suppressor genes, genes which suppress tumour formation, which lose their function, thus giving rise to carcinomas. Cardiovascular disease tends to manifest itself in specific ways unique to various communities. For example, African communities tend to have strokes as a result of cardiovascular disease, while south Asians tend to have heart attacks.
Understanding genetic predisposition to disease and knowledge of lifestyle modifications also by using geneyoga™ PLAN helps each individual to live their life longer and happier.
This section on genetic predisposition to disease aims to provide descriptions of major diseases that are included and used as an input to yours geneyoga PLAN.
Keep in mind that many conditions and traits are influenced by multiple factors. We are using them as an input to provide you with geneyoga™ PLAN. geneyoga™ PLAN is intended for informational purposes only and do not diagnose disease or illness.
Gene expression – Epigenetics
Our gene expression is all about spelling. Every cell has DNA. Every DNA is having 25,000 genes. Now each gene has a spelling. This spelling is called base pairs. There are totally 3.45 billion base pairs.
The expression of genes is constantly changing. The gene expression could be positive or negative.
With a geneyoga plan we can change the gene expression to be positive. We have an influence on our genes. If there is a negative gene, you can prevent it. You can achieve that level of gene making stress is zero. That is why we must be positive. Every technique of Yoga is to change the gene expression.
Diseases and genes included in geneyoga™ PLAN
The genetic part of geneyoga™ PLAN will tell you if you have genetic variants that are risk factors for various health conditions.
Cardiovascular diseases
Oncological disorders
Diabetes
Multiple sclerosis
Stroke
Others
Yoga therapy
Yoga therapy or yoga as medicine is the personalised application of yoga techniques to fit the current needs and interests of the individual. It is an integrated mind-body approach for restoring balance and adaptive functioning to the physical (musculoskeletal), physiological (digestion, respiration, cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune), and mental/emotional systems.
Yoga Therapy may be used to:
- Reduce symptoms of illness or injury
- Prevent genetically predisposed conditions
- Stablish more functional breath and movement patterns
- Reduce physical and mental suffering
- Improve quality of life
- Enhance positive coping strategies.
According to the late Georg Feuerstein, “Yoga therapy is of modern coinage and represents a first effort to integrate traditional yogic concepts and techniques with Western medical and psychological knowledge.”
What the many modern interpretations of yoga therapy have in common is an understanding of the vital integration of mind, body, and spirit to heal the whole person. One way to think of yoga therapy is as a replacement therapy, that is, replacing old bad habits with better new ones. As such, yoga therapy encompasses not only the body and the movements we do on the yoga mat, but how we live and treat others and ourselves off the mat, which is ultimately what matters for a healthy and whole life. Simply and elegantly stated in the words of Judith Hanson Lasater, yoga therapy is “the use of the techniques of yoga to create, stimulate, and maintain an optimum state of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.”
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