Healthy Diet, Lifestyle Make Positive Changes In Genes

Healthy diet and regular exercising make positive changes in genes and help fight numerous diseases.

A team of researchers from University of California, San Francisco examined 93 men suffering from early stage prostate cancer. Participants made major change in lifestyle, such as doing regular exercising and having low-fat, fruit and vegetable diet. Participants were monitored for 3 months to make sure that dieting and moderate exercising have been on a proper level.

Researchers found that healthy lifestyle changes, such as following a health diet and exercising, can turn on the gene fighting the disease and can also turn of the gene triggering disease progression.

Researchers looked at gene data of 30 men with low risk prostate cancer and who decided not to receive any treatment, such as surgery, radiation, or hormone therapy. Genes were once more examined just after the study, and showed that there were positive changes during the 'healthy' period. Other genes responsible for preventing some 50 various diseases were successfully turned on during this period. Some other genes triggering numerous diseases, including prostate and breast cancer, were successfully turned down.

Researchers also mention that the level of positive changes in genes directly depends on the level of lifestyle changes. The more you exercise and diet, the healthier you will be.

There is evidence that many diseases have a genetic background and most of us are sure that if one has a genetic variant leading to a disease it may not preventable. However, this study shows that healthy lifestyle can change the genes and we can fight diseases with genetic background.

This study suggests that walking 2000 steps a day and take 100 calories a day is the minimum level of healthy lifestyle to achieve positive changes in genes. The research also suggests that the more intensive lifestyle changes are, the more noticeable positive health changes are. Therefore, if you've decided to go healthy, just do it as intensive as you can and you'll feel better very soon.