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Sawyer decided to be a Vegetarian

Sawyer decided to be a vegetarian he did this because he was told it would add more years to your life so Sawyer went his whole life being a vegetarian Then around the age of 90 sawyers friends that were meat eaters begin to die but sawyer thought he had a few more years then them because he was a vegetarian but no he actually only lived 2 more months than them He wasted so many opportunities just to be vegetarian and it did nothing for him This story has happened many times over and it is still happening Let me give you a few reasons why being a vegetarian is the wrong choice For starters being a vegetarian makes it difficult to get the nutrients you would usually get from meat Vegetarians think that by eating no meat it is a better diet and is more healthy for you but without the calories and nutrients that you get from meat you can get something that is called vitamin deficiency For example in the article 7 Nutrients that you can get from Plant Foods it says Carnosine is an antioxidant that is concentrated in the muscles and brain It is very important for muscle function and high levels of carnosine in muscles are linked with reduced muscle fatigue and improved performance 



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Epigenetic therapy of cancer Epigenetic therapy which is a Cure Option

Epigenetic therapy of cancer Epigenetic therapy which is a cure option has been emerged thanks to the reversible nature of the extensive epigenetic alterations The main goal of the epigenetic cure is to revert the causal epigenetic abnormalities that exist in cancer This leads to a normal epigenome s restoration Histone modifications and DNA methylation abnormalities which exist in cancer have been cured efficiently by variety of epigenetic drugs which have been discovered recently The first epigenetic drugs which are offered to use in cancer therapeutics are DNA methylation inhibitorsInhibition of DNA methylation by cytotoxic agents 5 aza CR and 5 aza CdR was a significant discovery because DNA methylation is one of the main epigenetic alteration which trigger gene expression and cause differentiation in cultured cells This knowledge lead to cognizance of the use of these drugs in cancer therapy In quickly growing cancer cells these nucleoside analogs get included in the DNA and suppress DNA methylation by ambushing DNA methyltransferases on the DNA and in the end it leads to their demolition inside of the cell In cancer unnaturally repressed tumor suppressor genes are reactivated so growth inhibition is observed in cancer by reduction of DNA methylation via these kind of drugs Nowadays for some cancer types such as acute and chronic myeloid leukemia 5 aza CR and 5 aza CdR which have been FDA approved are used in the treatment Zebularine which can be orally taken is another developed DNA methylation inhibitors

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