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How to unwind your DNA

A PERSON called Sara from an organisation called the Institute of HeartMath seems to know something that the rest of the scientific world doesn’t. Geraldine Goon directs us to an article in the online publication Care2 entitled “Can You Change Your DNA?” The answer, Sara seems to think, is: “Yes, you can”.

“Institute of HeartMath researchers,” she tells us, “found evidence that the physical nature of DNA strands can change with heart-focused intention.” Indeed, one individual in their experiment became able to “unwind”…

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