This research has confirmed that brain cells translate the mind’s perceptions (beliefs) of the world into complementary and unique chemical profiles that, when secreted into the blood, control the fate of the body’s 50 trillion cells. So blood, the body’s culture medium, not only nourishes cells, its neurochemical components also regulate cells’ genetic and behavioral activity. As Steve Cole, an epigeneticist at UCLA’s School of Medicine, told Pacific Standard magazine: “A cell is a machine for turning experience into biology.” (Dobbs 2013) When we change the way we perceive the world, that
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