{"id":1758,"date":"2012-10-08T10:01:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2012-10-08T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:01:38","slug":"what-if-aging-were-optional-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"What if aging were optional?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not such an out of the box question anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for work that revolutionized the understanding of how cells and organisms develop.<\/p>\n<p>Gurdon and Yamanaka share the prize jointly &#8220;for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent&#8221; &#8212; the ability of a cell to differentiate into another cell type, according to the Nobel committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These groundbreaking discoveries have completely changed our view of the development and cellular specialization. We now understand that the mature cell does not have to be confined forever to its specialized state,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Textbooks have been rewritten and new research fields have been established. By reprogramming human cells, scientists have created new opportunities to study diseases and develop methods for diagnosis and therapy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottomline:<\/strong>  Today the world will be told once again that your DNA does NOT determine your destiny.  The &#8220;Epi-genome&#8221; determines your destiny and it can influenced both by science and especially by the choices you make.  In short;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Your past does not equal your future<\/em>&#8221;  You are a creation machine and can create a new future by making new choices today.<\/p>\n<p>Live with Intention,<br \/>\nDr bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not such an out of the box question anymore. The 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for work that revolutionized the understanding of how cells and organisms &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,285,254,31],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-nobel-prize-in-medicine","tag-postaday2012","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}