by Sayer Ji, Green Med Info:
Take an apple, for example. This amazing fruit is brimming with pharmacologically (or better yet, nutrigenomically) active compounds, most notably ascorbic acid, also known as vitamin C. Another compound it contains is phlorizin, over a dozen polyphenols, potent antioxidants concentrated in the skin of the apple and known to elicit multitargeted effects that reduce the impact of high blood sugar in animal models.1 But this strictly material layer of nutritional analysis barely touches the surface when it comes to appreciating the informational complexity of food.
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Apples contain structured water molecules with a hexagonal crystalline configuration (H302) that’s halfway between liquid and crystal. Named “the fourth phase of water” by Washington University professor Dr. Gerald Pollack, the micro-clustering pattern of structured water is capable of holding and transmitting both energy and information.2 In fact, all raw plant, animal, fungal, and bacterial cells contain this structured water, each with a configuration as unique as a snowflake, assuming it has not been desiccated and denatured through cooking, processing, or the gamma irradiation-based food preservation process known as “cold pasteurization.” “Raw” is a key word here. Raw fruit juice has a high concentration of naturally structured water, which accounts for a good portion of the anecdotal and scientific evidence regarding its healing benefits. Processed juice, on the other hand, is said to contain dys-information (dys- is a word-forming element meaning “bad, ill; hard, difficult; abnormal, imperfect,”) that may misdirect the expression of our genes and harm our physiology.3
Virtually all water in uncooked and unprocessed plant food possesses beneficial genetic-expression-modifying information. This is a profound departure from looking at water as a fundamentally material, inert bystander in biological systems, as has been the case for centuries. Additionally, within the biological tissue of which they are composed, all foods contain the noncoding RNA molecules known as microRNAs, which affect the expression of the majority of genes in our bodies and stimulate biological pathways conducive to our species’s health and wellness. Packaged in exosomes, which are roughly the size of a virus (~65 nanometers), microRNAs survive digestion, whereupon they penetrate systemic circulation in the body and affect the structure and function of all our tissues.
One example of the healing potential of microRNAs comes from a study of Chinese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), a traditional remedy for colds and flus. An animal study demonstrated that a microRNA isolated from this honeysuckle is delivered straight to the lungs, the area of active influenza infection, via the bloodstream. Once there, it targets and inhibits the replication of influenza A virus.4 The authors of the study additionally proposed that ingestion of the Chinese honeysuckle decoction confers medicinal benefits by enhancing the dietary uptake of other microRNAs.
With every bite of food you take, you are deliberately choosing which messages you want to send to your genome. By simply being thoughtful and intentional with the foods you eat, you can remove interference in the moment-to-moment cellular regeneration that should and will naturally occur.
In this chapter you’ll learn how regenerative foods communicate on the smallest levels, through micromolecules and via your microbiome. To understand the major role of these tiny players, let’s go back to DNA and reexamine its role as the code at the center of life.
Rethinking the Role DNA Plays in Our Health
Since the 19th century, when Charles Darwin revolutionized humanity’s perception of its evolutionary past, present, and future, we’ve been taught that all organisms are separate from one another and locked into a ruthless system of survival of the fittest. This competitive arms race for resources, territory, and self-preservation yields two distinct groups: winners and losers. In this model, our genes are independent players, hermetically sealed within the chromosomes and concerned only with the solitary task of propagating themselves to the next generation. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the conductor of this abstract symphony of life, in which our place–and our fate–has been predetermined.
Not unlike the Copernican Revolution, which, in the 16th century, dislodged Earth from the center of the universe and threatened rigid social and political conventions, the New Biology dethrones DNA as the center of life, heralding an alternative vision. In this vision, human molecules, cells, tissues, and organs are absorbed in dynamic flux, communication, and feedback. They are capable of constant change, working harmoniously within a networked biosphere that unifies each individual with the whole. Most importantly, the New Biology inaugurates the radical notion that the body can directly access biologically useful energy from the quantum vacuum. In this reenvisioning, biological structures have access to an all-pervading vacuum energy, once described as an ether, and this quantum energy field is operative at subatomic, atomic, molecular, and supramolecular levels.
A particular groundbreaking facet of the New Biology is food’s importance as a source of indispensable information, its function reaching far beyond its nutritional composition of varying macronutrients and micronutrients to help epigenetically modify the expression of the majority of our genome.
Master Molecule of Heredity vs. the Interdependent Model of Systems
Which human organ do you view as most imperative to life? Some instinctively feel that the brain is the most important organ, because without it cognition would not be possible. Some say it is the heart, which keeps our circulation flowing, or the liver, which stands vigil, filtering the blood. But the answer is none of the above. They’re all requisite for the intelligent design and operations of our somatic form. These organs are interdependent parts of overlapping systems, superimposed and interwoven into the intricate tapestry of our physiology. Like the notes in a musical composition by Bach, their beauty results from the composite and synergistic way in which they interact.
Consider this: for other domains of science, such as the study of aquatic, marine, and land-based ecosystems, we acknowledge a sophisticated interconnectedness among animal and plant species. Yet this awareness dissipates when we venture more deeply into the human body, down to the level of macromolecules. When it comes to DNA, biologists have abandoned the idea of an interdependent model of systems, embracing instead a hierarchical, linear process to create an origin story of life. In this “central dogma of biology,” DNA makes RNA, which makes proteins. DNA, as the supreme biomolecule of life, oversees the genesis of all other biological constituents in a top-down, authoritative fashion. This model traces a one-way trajectory from DNA to RNA to proteins.
However, in truth, a more accurate model would be a bidirectional loop within a web. The New Biology shows us that DNA is not actually at the center of life but is instead one isolated facet of a complex biological economy composed of subsystems, none of which can be ascribed primacy or recognized to exert a privileged level of causation. The New Biology goes even further than that, demonstrating that there is no center. Science overwhelmingly shows that life is self-organized, emerging from a network of interpenetrating and interdependent relationships, each with its own niche, specialized in purpose and fundamental to the larger whole. This exquisitely calibrated organization has long been recognized by traditional Eastern philosophies that envisioned all phenomena, from the infinitesimal goings-on of the human body to the macro-level oscillations of the climate, the rhythms of the seasons, and the movements of the planets as a holofractal unity. No one dimension supersedes or holds dominion over another; life operates in an oscillating dance of give-and-take, expansion and contraction, and ebb and flow.
