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bob ford wrote:
> I rarely question you, James.  But, I would like to see a link to these  peer 
> reviewed twin studies, if you don't mind.  I don't see holistic thinking 
> changing genetics or curing schizophenia or chd, but I have changed my mond 
> before .....

I'm not James, obviously, but an interesting, understandable, layman's 
book about the physical workings of genetics is The Genie in Your Genes, 
by Dawson Church.  There he cites many interesting-sounding studies 
about many aspects of very basic (albeit not very simple!) 
trans-modification of cells, cell parts, and genes. 


I too have read the results of not one but several studies  which cite  
gene modification within the aging individual, mostly in canines, but 
also in humans.  Possibly the study to which James refers is one  large 
one done fairly recently  that was fascinating in that it sounded like 
they had very closely followed twinsets and  it sounded like they really 
had  their ducks in a row concerning  keeping the study clean, etc.  The 
thing that sticks in my mind is that twins who had lived the longest 
separated from one another had  more variety in the genetic studies of 
the later age than  they did as youngsters, which raises lots of 
questions....envirornment?  exposure to ...?   and  so on.  Really 
interesting stuff....


SusanJane, who seems to be again connected to the list after an 
unexplained  banishment.....//