Snacking & Our Genes

Recently, I’ve had a few clients come to me concerned about their genetic testing results. In both cases, mutated genes were responsible for two different diagnoses that left my clients feeling anxious and at a loss for how to navigate their health going forward.

There is a common misconception that not much can be done when it comes to our genetic makeup. That when certain genes show in testing as not functioning correctly, it’s a permanent part of our biological story.

Not only is that incorrect, but it gives us a false sense of disempowerment, causing us to merge with our diagnoses and lose sight of what we are truly capable of.

The body, at its core, was created in genuine perfection – free of disease and dysfunction.

But the reality is that most everyone has never known this state of being, based on what we’ve inherited from generations past. Toxicities, heavy metals, emotions, and trauma create a rocky foundation for our genes, with some functioning better than others when we are born. Lifestyle, though, ends up having a profound impact on how our genes express themselves.

With the protocols we’ve created at Aging as Intended, we have the ability to heal the genes themselves and bring them back to alignment, functioning as they were intended to. Through clearing away the underlying inherited & accumulated imbalances affecting the genes, we help the body to return to homeostasis, which has a resulting effect on genetic expression.

Alongside these protocols, we are able to obtain specific insight about what lifestyle factors have previously caused the genes to malfunction, which helps to empower clients going forward. Muscle testing can pinpoint a variety of environmental factors responsible for affecting clients’ health – ranging from nutrition to household toxicities and everything in between - and through making certain changes, we witness the body thrive post-session.

In both of these client cases, the top lifestyle factor that had affected both of their genes? Snacking.

The interruption of digestion cuts off so many important functions in the body, but perhaps most crucially, it prevents the genes from renewing as they were intended to from the start. Several steps of the 4 hour long digestive process have an impact on our genetic expression – most notably, the final steps that involve autophagy. The important clean out of our cells, which helps to get rid of accumulated toxicities, pathogens, emotions, and food wastes, occurs during the last part of digestion– in a critical window that is regularly interrupted by snacking.

Both clients responded similarly to the data when I sent them their session recaps. Initial shock, followed by clarity.

But we’re told to eat small meals all throughout the day! One of them replied to me. It makes total sense though. The body needs to rest and recharge and most of us aren’t letting it do that….

Returning to our original blueprint is both a gift and a responsibility. Through clearing our slate and detoxing away the imbalances we were never meant to carry means that going forward, it’s on us to determine how ready we are to carry the torch and maintain that state of being.

Both of these clients were adamant that they would work on their snacking habits, and based on their most recent sessions, they have. Not only have they reported dramatic shifts in energy levels, improved sleep, and a significant reduction in their previous nagging symptoms, but based on muscle testing, their genes have not reverted back to their previously compromised state.

Genetic testing can tell us a lot, but as indicated by these two cases, it's never the full - nor permanent - story. We truly do have the capacity to change the narrative. And through a combination of our protocol and lifestyle, we continue to witness the narrative changing time and time again in our clients.