Your Genetic Code Is Not Carved in Stone
- WEALTHY: The ups and downs of tennis balls and stocks (Rick Pendergraft)
- HEALTHY: Overcoming "bad genes" (Dr. Al Sears)
- WISE: Charles Darwin on Charles Darwin
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- Thanks to PS’s puppy … (Michael Masterson)
- Need help with your goals for 2007? (Suzanne Richardson)
- Add "decuple" to your vocabulary
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Gravity in the Markets
By Rick Pendergraft
I had an interesting conversation with my neighbor the other evening. Andrew is only a part-time neighbor here in Florida. His permanent home is in New Jersey. He is a trader on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange - in the oil and gas pits.
While discussing our philosophies on trading, he shared a little story with me about how his mentor illustrated the way markets go up and down. The mentor had Andrew throw a tennis ball up in the air and time its subsequent ascent and then its descent.
Now, you can imagine how much faster the ball dropped as opposed to how long it took to rise. This is simple physics - gravity at work. As the ball goes up, gravity is working against it. As the ball drops, gravity is working with it.
And this principle also applies to the stock market.
It’s a matter of basic supply and demand. If the supply of anything is greater than demand, the price drops. If demand is greater than supply, the price rises. So, if there are more investors who want to sell a stock than there are buyers, it’s a buyer’s market … and if they’re all rushing in at once to sell, the price will have to drop fast in order to attract enough buyers for all the sellers to get out.
As a result, selling is much more apt to be panic selling. And just as the pull of gravity puts downward pressure on the ball, the "fear factor" puts extra pressure on stock prices, causing them to drop much faster than they rise.
Remember this when you are trading. Dips in the market tend to take less time to play out than do rallies. So if you have a bearish position (meaning you are either holding puts or have sold short), realize that the trip down may be short-lived. Taking profits a little quicker on bearish positions can prove prudent, especially in an overall uptrend like the one we are in now.
[Ed. Note: Find out how Rick Pendergraft can help you make money - no matter what the market’s doing - as the editor of ETR’s new investment service, the ETF Options Trader.]
"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts."
Charles Darwin
Your Genetic Code Is Not Carved in Stone
By Al Sears, MD
New research is revealing how your environment actually changes your genetics - and it’s putting you in the driver’s seat.
In November, the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute released the results of their groundbreaking study. They found that a mother’s diet during pregnancy not only affects her child, but also her child’s offspring.
This means that the lifestyle choices a woman makes can affect several generations of children - a revolutionary idea that flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
For more than 150 years - since the time of Darwin - scientists have believed that any changes to an organism cannot be passed on to the next generation. According to strict Darwinism, if you were to change your diet, lose weight, and become super-fit, your children would not benefit from your efforts. But we now know there is something more at play: the "epigenome." The epigenome plays a powerful role in your health … and could make the difference between whether or not you "inherit" heart disease or diabetes or something else.
Scientists in an emerging field of research - epigenetics - have discovered that your genes are only 15 percent of the total genetic material you get from your parents. For example, your genes give you many individualizing traits like blue eyes or brown hair. The remaining 85 percent - the epigenome - is a scaffolding of proteins that surround your DNA’s double-helix pattern.
As it turns out, this "scaffolding" functions as an interface that interacts with your environment. Based on the lifestyle choices you make, the epigenome has the power to turn genes on or off, changing the way your body translates your genetic coding into the proteins that make up YOU.
The Children’s Hospital Oakland study, lead by Dr. David Martin, split genetically identical pregnant mice into two groups. The mice had been bred in a way that gave the scientists the ability to monitor a gene that determined both the color of their coats and their tendency to develop chronic disease. So, by tracking coat color, they were able to follow the effects of vitamin supplementation across two generations of offspring.
The first group of mice received a standard diet. The second group received the same diet, with the added benefit of supplemental vitamin B12, folate, choline, and zinc. When the babies were born, the females from both groups were mated and fed identical diets with no supplements. When the offspring gave birth, Dr. Martin’s team discovered that the original mice that had the diet with extra vitamins passed the benefits on to both their children and grandchildren.
Findings like these have powerful implications in both directions. It means that, by making healthy choices, your efforts can have a positive effect not only on your children but on your grandchildren as well. On the other hand, a diet of fast food and sodas will not only wreck your own health, it could predispose future generations to chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
That helps to explain why so many schoolchildren suffer from high blood pressure and low HDL (good cholesterol). The poor dietary choices their parents made are coming home to roost.
This discovery gives us new insight into a long-standing debate between Charles Darwin and a guy you may never have heard of - French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
Darwin’s theory, which has been shaping the direction of modern science, can be summed up in a few words: Genes cannot be affected by the outside world. In other words, your lifestyle choices have no effect on your genetic code or how those genes are expressed.
But Lamarck believed that if an organism changes during its life in order to adapt to its environment, those changes would be passed on to its offspring - and Dr. Martin’s study is one of several that are proving he was correct.
So, guess what? It looks like you’re no longer a "victim" of your genetic programming. If, for example, if you decide to exercise vigorously to develop new muscle, it now appears that it’s possible for you to pass on a predisposition to build muscle with exercise to your children … and perhaps even further down your line of descendants.
Conscious decisions to improve your health will interact with your epigenome. In turn, the proteins in your epigenome can turn off genes that would have otherwise expressed themselves as disease in your descendents.
Instead of the old model, think of your genetic code as a library. You have thousands of choices, but you never check out all of the books. The epigenome interacts with your environment and your choices to determine which books to "read."
You can actually "talk" to your genes to improve your health and prevent disease.
I hope you appreciate the power of that last statement. It means you no longer have to live in fear of disease - even if you have a family history of it.
Vitamins like E, C, and A send messages to your genes that normalize cell division. This alone can aid in preventing many forms of cancer.
For vitamins E and C, I recommend taking more than the U.S. government suggests. Start with 100 IUs of vitamin E and 2,000 mg of vitamin C daily.
Here are four other nutrients that powerfully support detoxification and proper genetic expression:
- Vitamin B12: 500 to 1,000 mcg daily
- Folic acid: 500 to 1,000 mcg daily
- Vitamin B6: 10 to 20 mg daily
- Betaine: 200 to 1,000 mg daily
Don’t sit back and allow "bad genes" to ruin your health. Take action and make yourself and future generations healthier.
[Ed. Note: Start developing healthy habits today, and you could be influencing the health of future generations. Begin by eating better and exercising regularly. Dr. Sears’ new PACE book includes several exercise routines that can make you feel stronger and more energized … and help you lose weight.]
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How to Make a Request That Gets Immediate Results
By Michael Masterson
The other day, I got this e-mail from PS:
Friends -
Last week, my new puppy lost her balance in my jeep.
She fell backward, away from the passenger window, and put her entire leg into a large cup of Diet Coke, which was sitting in the console between us. There was a giant soda explosion. It went everywhere. Especially all over my cellphone … which refused to turn on following the soda explosion.
I have 4-6 years worth of contact information and phone numbers in my phone. No problem … I’ve got a back-up data file. But the data file containing all of my contact information is corrupted. It won’t open.
Thus I have lost 4-5 years worth of contact information. Most of this I can piece together from other records and spreadsheets. But not telephone numbers. I didn’t have those written down anywhere else.
Please … please …
Would you mind spending 30 seconds to make sure you stay on my contact list? If you don’t … well, I might not be able to find you … ever again. (For some … that might be a blessing …)
Please reply to this e-mail and tell me:
Your address
Your phone number / phone numbers
Use the address or the number(s) where you’d like me to reach you.
I’m truly sorry for having to ask for this favor … I know it’s a pain in the butt.
Normally, it takes me weeks to answer such requests, if I get to them at all. This one got my response immediately. Why? Take a look at what PS did:
- He told an engaging story.
- Explained his problem.
- Said why it’s important.
- Asked for a specific action.
- Expressed gratitude.
This formula uses classic direct-marketing techniques - and it should work for you any time you want something from someone.
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It’s Good to Know: Help From ETR to Multiply Your Chances of Success
By Suzanne Richardson
Want to decuple your chances of getting a raise… being on track to retire 10 years early… or traveling the world? Whether you established your goals for 2007 on January 1 or are still working on them now, you’ll have a much greater likelihood of accomplishing them just by doing one simple thing. According to a University of Scranton study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, you’re 10 times more likely to achieve your goals if you explicitly make a resolution to do so.
You can give yourself an even greater chance of success by following the steps we advocate in ETR’s goal-setting program:
- Write your goals down.
- Break long-term goals into easy-to-manage monthly, weekly, and daily objectives.
- Do something each and every day - preferably, first thing in the morning - to get yourself closer to your most important Life Goal.
Unfortunately, as you may already have discovered, it’s easy to get side-tracked … no matter how good your intentions are. In fact, the University of Scranton study showed that only 75 percent of the participants in the study who made New Year’s resolutions maintained their resolutions past the first week, and only 46 percent maintained them after six months.
Recognizing that your commitment may fade as the months pass is the first part of the battle. Win the rest of the battle by forcing yourself to work toward your major goals every single day - even if that means writing one paragraph of your screenplay, spending 10 minutes exercising, or calling one prospective employer. A little action every day.
[Ed. Note: To help you rise above the discouraging University of Scranton statistics, we’ve added two powerful new components to ETR’s Total Success Achievement Program.
For one thing, billionaire mentor Robert Cox will send you a weekly message designed to help keep you motivated. Plus, you’ll be able to attend bi-monthly coaching teleseminars, packed with advice, hints, techniques, and success strategies.
If you’re at all concerned about sticking to and achieving your goals … look into it.]
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- Patrick Coffey
Word to the Wise: Decuple
To "decuple" (DEK-yoo-pul) - from the Latin for "tenfold" - is to multiply or be multiplied by 10.
Example (as Suzanne used it today): "Want to decuple your chances of getting a raise … retiring 10 years early … or traveling the world?"
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Michael Masterson
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