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Year Joe straight from the broadcast studio, and then the
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status this ain't no beat sound story. So as prophetic
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encrypt the signals from the shadows of the party we
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did where the trop got secret snow parted, microphone alchemists
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scriptures with a twist, peep the frequency seeds in the
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midst we drop fas like plagues, revelations in the catus,
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broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a
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watchman's blade, forth what sound while your whole system faid
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blood moons that for love, echoes in the pond sasquar
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sompen through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
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We ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code
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the dreams. So with you tune in better guards to
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mind it's broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design. Then yeah,
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yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast.
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You're listening to broadcasting seeds. I'm your host, Bennett Tanton,
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and tonight we're going to crack open the part of
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you that science used to call junk, not your ex
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your DNA. For decades, biology textbooks told us that only
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about one to two percent of our genome actually codes
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for proteins. The rest non coding DNA just background noise,
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evolutionaries trash pile evolutions. Trash pile scientists literally call it
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junk DNA. But here's the thing. The longer we stare
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at that junk, the less junkie it looks. Researchers are
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now finding that big chunks of this non coding DNA
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act like switchboards and circuit breakers, controlling my and genes
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turn on how strongly they fire and where they light
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up in the body. Some of it shapes the three
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D folding of the genome. Other stretches act like enhancers
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or repressors, nudging gene expression up or down. A Stanford
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led study in twenty twenty three even showed how small
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changes in non coding repeats can be tied to conditions
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like autism or schizophrenia by subtly tweaking expression levels. So tonight,
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I want you to imagine something. What if that massive
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shadowy ninety eight percent of your genome isn't junk at all,
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but a lock box, a vault of hidden instructions, a
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record of what happened to your bloodline, and maybe a
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storage unit for the parts of you that aren't supposed
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to fit in a lab report. Because here's where it
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gets weird. We now have evidence that trauma can leave
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marks on the genome without changing the letters themselves. Epigenetic tags,
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little chemical markers on DNA can change how genes are expressed.
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They don't They don't rewrite the code. They work kind
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of like dimmer switches. Studies of Holocaust survivors and their
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children show altered methylation patterns on stress related genes like
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Kilo Fox, trop, Bravo, Papa five or kpb P five,
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showing up in both generations. More recent work on families
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displaced by war suggests those trauma signatures can show up
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across three generations, echoing down the line long after the
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bullets stop flying. Scientists call it intergenerational trauma. We've all
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heard of this through the broadcasting seeds lens. It raises
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a darker question, are we carrying spiritual shrapnel in our DNA?
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If trauma can etch itself into the regulatory layer of
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our genome, what else might be hiding there? What about
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thousands of years of bloodline warfare, genocide, ritual and covenant breaking?
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Are those just stories in old books? Or did they
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carve themselves into the epigenetic wallpaper of humanity. And then
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there's the biblical and paranormal side of this thing. If
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you've been around the show for a while, you know
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we talk about nephelim, about hybrid bloodlines, about that strange
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overlap between spiritual beings and human flesh described in Genesis
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and echoed in ancient traditions all over the world. When
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people today obsess over pure bloodlines or chosen lineages, we
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usually roll our eyes. But what if some of that
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obsession is rooted in a dimly remembered truth that the
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genome still carries forward in ways we barely understand. Is
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it possible there are latent codes, spiritual, mental, maybe even
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physical potentials buried in what used to be dismissed as
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just junk.
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Now.
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Layer on top of that, the thing every bio investor
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drools over, crisper. We now have tools that can slice
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and edit DNA with terrifying precision. Crisper Caste systems are
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already being used in labs and early clinical trials to
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correct mutations, disable harmful genes, and rewrite pieces of the genome.
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Ethicists are screaming from the sidelines that we're nowhere near
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understanding the long term consequences of hurtable genome editing changes
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that get passed down to future generations. But most of
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those debates focus on the one to two percent we
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understand the parts that make proteins. Almost nobody is talking
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about what happens when we swing that same blade near
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the uncharted ninety eight percent. What if, in our rush
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to fix humanity, we start knocking out on muting regions
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of dark DNA that our ancestors bled, prayed, and suffered
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to pass on. What if we casually edit out not
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just disease, but resilience or spiritual sensitivity, or some buried
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safeguard we don't even know exists yet. That's the heart
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of tonight's episode, The Dark DNA. What scientists can't explain.
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We're gonna look at this from three angles. How junk
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DNA quietly flipped the script on modern genetics, How trauma,
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war and bloodline conflict may be writing ghost stories into
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our genome, and how Crisper and the gene editing revolution
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might be tinkering with more than biology, maybe even editing
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out spiritual potential. If you're new here, welcome, to broadcasting seeds,
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where we ask the questions your freshman biology textbook definitely
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did not prepare you for before we dive into section one, though,
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do me a favor if this show makes you think,
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if it puts a little grit in your spiritual and
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mental gears, hit follow, leave a review, and share this
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episode with a friend who loves weird, uncomfortable truth. That's
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how this community grows, and how these conversations get out
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of the algorithm's basement and into the light. All right,
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take a breath. Think about that ninety eight percent of
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your DNA that nobody really understands. Are you ready to
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open the lock box section one? The ninety eight percent
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that refused to stay silent. All right, let's crack open
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the vault. For most of the twentieth century, geneticists looked
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at our DNA three a very narrow keyhole. They found
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the sections that made proteins, which are the blueprint pages,
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and assume the rest were just scribbles in the margins.
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And in nineteen seventy two, the term junk DNA was
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literally coined to describe the non coding majority of our genome.
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Because scientists couldn't find a purpose for it. But as
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technology got sharper, the junks started whispering back, and in
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the early two thousands, the Encode project that's the Encyclopedia
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of DNA elements, flip it's upside down by showing that
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at least eighty percent of the human genome is biochemically active,
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influencing which genes turn on and when and how intensely.
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Think of your DNA like a massive control room. The
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one two the one to two percent that codes for proteins.
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Those are the machines doing the work. The junk that's
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the technicians, the switchboards and security systems telling the machines
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what to do, when to do it, and how loud
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to operate. You don't you don't see them on stage,
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but without them, the whole show collapses. A Stanford led
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study in twenty twenty three drove this home even harder.
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Tiny changes in non coding DNA repetitive sequences that scientists
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use to ignore, directly shifted gene expression levels, influencing risks
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for disorders like autism and schizophrenia. So here's where the
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mystery starts to thicken. If the ninety eight percent that
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doesn't build your body is still running your body? What
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else is running? There are stretches of DNA that act
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like switches, waiting to be specific for a specific environmental trigger,
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whether that's stress, starvation, radiation, or even emotional experiences. Before
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they activate, some sequences look like fragments from long extinct
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viral infections embedded in our genome. Others seem like they're
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just they're turned off and purpose as if they're locked down.
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And that leads to a chilling possibility. What if some
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of these deactivated instructions are artifacts from humanity's prehistory. Not
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just about them, not just the stone tools and fire
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kind of history. I'm talking about the myth time, the
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era every culture remembers and whispers the watchers, the giants,
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the sky people, the gods that walked with man. You
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call them Nephelim and Unaki, Titans, fallen ones. The names differ,
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but the story is the same. It all rhymes. Something
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once crossed into humanity and left a mark. Now I'm
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not saying scientists have found giant DNA, but I'm saying
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there are enormous regions of our genome that have no
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known biological function. Two contain repeated patterns like locked doors
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three look like they were tampered with by something that
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didn't follow normal evolution. So here's the hypothesis that mainstream
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science won't really entertain yet. What if non coding DNA
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is not trash left behind by evolution, but a safety
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vault built to contain ancient genetic memories, abilities, or even identity.
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Imagine pre flood humanity carried abilities we can't even conceptualize, strength, perception, longevity,
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then catastrophe, judgment, cleansing, call it what you want. Those
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abilities get silenced, not erased, just buried, dormant, waiting, And
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now we're messing with the locks without even knowing their
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freaking locks. Because for the first time in human history,
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we're not just reading DNA, we're starting to edit it.
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We're turning screwdrivers inside the control room while we're blindfolded.
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Section two ghosts in the blood trauma's signature on the genome.
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Picture this a nightmare that isn't yours, A fear you've
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never earned, a reaction that comes out of nowhere. Like
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your boy, he remembers a threat that your mind can't place.
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What if that is an anxiety? What if that's inheritance?
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Science has a name for this epigenetics. It's not about
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changing the letters of your DNA. It's about adjusting the spotlights,
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turning some genes up and dimming others down. Like someone
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has been scribbling notes in the margin of your blueprint
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and the biggest editor of those notes. Trauma, the war
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that never ends. In recent years, studies have stared straight
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into horror and found it written in the genome. The
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children of genocide survivors show altered DNA methylation on stress
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response genes like KBP k f KBP five, the same
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pattern seen in their parents. Veterans and families who lived
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through war. Researchers found persistent epigenetic markers three generations deep
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tied to anxiety and PTSD like symptoms, meaning the war
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doesn't It doesn't end when the gun falls silent. It
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keeps marching through the bloodstream. You can be born into
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peace while your DNA still thinks the bombs are falling.
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Your grandmother's tears, your heartbeat. Imagine your ancestors standing on
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the edge of starvation, or hiding from invaders, or watching
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family disappear into smoke. Their survival meant their epigenetics dials shifted,
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metabolism set to scarcity modegilants turned up to freaking eleven
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hormones wired for panic at the slightest sound. They lived,
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but those switches stayed flipped. So now, generations later, someone
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at the doctor's office tells you you're genetically predisposed to obesity, anxiety, depression,
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autoimmune issues. And you think it's random, bad luck, bad genetics.
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But what if it's not a glitch. What if it's
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a memory, a biological message saying be ready. The danger
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comes again, the invisible bloodline war. And here's where the
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broadcasting seeds lens widens the frame. If trauma can echo
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in your DNA, so can oppression, so can conquest. So
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can bloodline warfare. Not metaphor warfare, but real battles for
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survival across millennia. Every tribe, every nation, every people, people
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group that ever faced extinction may have carved those battles
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into their descendant's genomes. And what about spiritual trauma? The
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family that once practiced dark ritual but later turned from it?
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From it, do consequences linger in the epigenetic dirt? The
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lineage that survives something inhuman do they still carry a
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marker that doesn't quite make sense of modern biology. Some
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epigenetic signatures seem like over reactions to normal life phobias
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with zero origin, panic around specific places or symbols, behavior
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patterns that make zero logical sense. I also think about
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a theory called the uncanny Valley. If you don't know
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what I'm talking about, look it up. What if those alarms?
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What if the genome is trying to protect you from
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something that once hunted your bloodline? If trauma marks the genome,
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what else does We've proven trauma leaves marks. We've proven
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those marks can be passed down. We've proven some of
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them never fully turn off. So let's take one step
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toward the uncanny. If fear can rewrite DNA, why couldn't Faith? Could? Worship?
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Could covenant? Could encounters with beings we write off as
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myth dark experiences x themselves into the genome? Could contact
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with the divine? Do the same? Because if the genome
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remembers war maybe it also remembers the warriors. Section three.
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Rewriting the lock box the crisper cast nine threat to
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human potential. Now we step into the future, a place
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where ancestors locked up code might not just be ignored anymore,
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but actively rewritten Crisper has been hailed as a revolution
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a tool capable of fixing genetic disease, correcting mutations, even
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erasing de debilitating disorders from a family's bloodline forever. There's
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enormous fraunam promise in that, and in many cases that
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promise may very well it could still very well be
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worth it. But what happens when we point those molecular
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scissors or better yet, scalpels at the ninety eight percent
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of the genome We just don't understand yet, the unknown
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unknowns of gene editing. That's what Crisper operates by cutting
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DNA at a target site, prompting cellular repair machinery to
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fix the break, and that might successfully disable a harmful
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gene or insert a beneficial change. But the repair process
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isn't it's not fool proof. Cells often rely on error
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prone mechanisms like NHEJ on homolugaus and joining. I don't know,
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I say that homologous end joining n HEJ that can
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introduce insertions, deletions, or rearrangements. These may not just affect
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the targeted gene, but can rimple ripple outward. A twenty
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twenty five review just this year flagged a serious concern.
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Even on target cuts may lead to large structural variations
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like big delicians, chromosomal translocations, or rearrangements spanning megabases. That