One way to change our genes is to make new ones, as Craig Venter has so elegantly shown. Another is to change our lifestyles. And what we're learning is how powerful and dynamic these changes can be, that you don't have to wait very long to see the benefits. When you eat healthier, manage stress, exercise and love more, your brain actually gets more blood flow and more oxygen. But more than that, your brain gets measurably bigger. Things that were thought impossible just a few years ago can actually be measured now. This was figured out by Robin Williams a few years before the rest of us.
Jedan način da promenimo naše gene jeste da napravimo nove, kao što Kreg Venter elegantno pokazao. Drugi je da promenimo način života. Ono što saznajemo je koliko moćne i dinamične te promene mogu biti, da ne morate dugo čekati da vidite dobrobiti. Kada jedete zdravije, upravljate stresom, vežbate i volite više, protok krvi u vašem mozgu je veći i on dobija više kiseonika. Ali i više od toga, mozak vam postaje vidno veći. Stvari za koje smo samo pre nekoliko godina mislili da su nemoguće, sada se zapravo mogu izmeriti. Ovo je Robin Vilijams shvatio nekoliko godina pre nas ostalih.
Now, there's some things that you can do to make your brain grow new brain cells. Some of my favorite things, like chocolate and tea, blueberries, alcohol in moderation, stress management and cannabinoids found in marijuana. I'm just the messenger. (Laughter) What were we just talking about? (Laughter) And other things that can make it worse, that can cause you to lose brain cells. The usual suspects, like saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and chronic stress.
Sad, postoje neke stvari koje možete uraditi da bi vaš mozak proizvodio nove moždane ćelije. Neke od mojih omiljenih stvari, čokolada i čaj, borovnice, alkohol u umerenim količinama, upravljanje stresom i kanabinoidi nađeni u marihuani. Ja samo prenosim poruku. (smeh) O čemu smo ono pričali? (smeh) I ostale stvari koje mogu pogoršati, zbog kojih možete izgubiti moždane ćelije. Dežurni krivci, kao zasićene masti i šećer, nikotin, opijati, kokain, previše alkohola i hroničan stres.
Your skin gets more blood flow when you change your lifestyle, so you age less quickly. Your skin doesn't wrinkle as much. Your heart gets more blood flow. We've shown that you can actually reverse heart disease. That these clogged arteries that you see on the upper left, after only a year become measurably less clogged. And the cardiac PET scan shown on the lower left, the blue means no blood flow. A year later -- orange and white is maximum blood flow. We've shown you may be able to stop and reverse the progression of early prostate cancer and, by extension, breast cancer, simply by making these changes. We've found that tumor growth in vitro was inhibited 70 percent in the group that made these changes, whereas only nine percent in the comparison group.
Vaša koža ima veći protok krvi kada promenite svoje navike, tako da starite sporije, koža vam se ne bora toliko. Srce vam dobija veći protok krvi. Pokazali smo da stvarno možete preokrenuti srčane bolesti. Da ove začepljene arterije koje vidite gore levo, posle samo godinu dana postaju vidljivo manje začepljene. A na snimku srca sa PET skenera dole levo, plavo znači da nema protoka krvi. Godinu dana kasnije - narandžasto i belo je maksimalni protok krvi. Pokazali smo da je moguće da zaustavite i vratite unazad napredak ranog raka prostate i raka dojke, samo pravljenjem ovih promena. Dokazali smo da je rast in vitro tumora zaustavljen 70% u grupi koja je napravila ove promene, dok je smanjen samo 9% u kontrolnoj grupi.
These differences were highly significant. Even your sexual organs get more blood flow, so you increase sexual potency. One of the most effective anti-smoking ads was done by the Department of Health Services, showing that nicotine, which constricts your arteries, can cause a heart attack or a stroke, but it also causes impotence. Half of guys who smoke are impotent. How sexy is that?
Ove razlike su veoma značajne. Čak i vaši seksualni organi dobijaju više krvi, tako da vam se povećava seksualna moć. Ministarstvo zdravlja je napravilo jednu od najučinkovitijih reklama protiv pušenja, koja pokazuje da nikotin, koji steže vaše arterije, može uzrokovati srčani ili moždani udar, ali isto tako uzrokuje impotenciju. Polovina momaka koji puše su impotentni. Kako je to seksi?
Now we're also about to publish a study -- the first study showing you can change gene expression in men with prostate cancer. This is what's called a heat map -- and the different colors -- and along the side, on the right, are different genes. And we found that over 500 genes were favorably changed -- in effect, turning on the good genes, the disease-preventing genes, turning off the disease-promoting genes.
Takođe ćemo uskoro objaviti studiju - studiju koja pokazuje da možete promeniti izraz gena kod muškaraca sa rakom prostate. Ovo se zove toplotna mapa i različite boje i sa desne strane su različiti geni. Našli smo da je preko 500 gena povoljno promenjeno i tako uključuju dobre gene koji sprečavaju bolest, a isključuju gene koji prenose bolest.
And so these findings I think are really very powerful, giving many people new hope and new choices. And companies like Navigenics and DNA Direct and 23andMe, that are giving you your genetic profiles, are giving some people a sense of, "Gosh, well, what can I do about it?" Well, our genes are not our fate, and if we make these changes -- they're a predisposition -- but if we make bigger changes than we might have made otherwise, we can actually change how our genes are expressed. Thank you. (Applause)
Mislim da su ti nalazi stvarno veoma moćni i daju novu nadu i nove izbore mnogim ljudima. I kompanije kao "Navigenix" i "DNA Direct" i "23andMe" koje vam daju vaše genetske profile, nekim ljudima daju osećaj "Bogo, pa šta ja mogu tu da uradim?" Pa, naši geni nisu naša sudbina i ako napravimo te promene - oni su predispozicija, ali ako napravimo veće promene nego što smo mogli inače, stvarno možemo promeniti način ispoljavanja naših gena. Hvala vam. (aplauz)