How do you make sense of what sadhguru is saying here ?

[Majed]

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Sadhguru here is basically arguing in favor of vegeterianism. He makes statement but doesn't give explanations. 

He says: "that if you eat the flesh of an animal, you'll slowly become an animal."

Okay but why? 

He then says that your body started with two cells of memory, he basically calls DNA memory, which is fine. I get that. 

But then he makes the argument that if you eat of more complex memory, your ability to superimpose you own memory is less and less. 

Okay sounds logical, but still i'm not convinced for some reason. It is far away from my paradigm of how i see things. I should probably study sadhguru more to get into his paradigm and understand. 

 

[Jirh]

Absolute New Age nonsense repackaged as profundity.

Nowhere in reality does it say that DNA gets rewritten by what you eat. DNA can get corrupted by UV radiations and toxins and other harmful mutagens, but it never incorporates foreign genetic instruction from digested food.

By his logic, we shouldn't even eat plants. Plant cells still have some complex memory compared to rocks and steel. We should eat rocks and steel for the raw minerals.

Better yet, how about a piece of that tasty uranium? One sniff will send you straight into the Godhead.

Absurd.

[Schizophonia]

It means that somewhere you tolerate a world where it's possible to kill someone to eat them. With all the butterfly effect that implies on your psyche and by extension the "outside" world because there's no separation.

That said I’m not vegan at all, and a vegan can be monstruous, and a meat eater can be very good. Good farming practices where an animal is ultimately killed painlessly even seems to be karmically positive, there are no rules.

[Ajay0]

There does seem to be some epigenetic changes associated with vegan food, as per researchers.

https://med.stanford.edu/nutrition/programs-and-initiatives/plant-based-diet-initiative/seed-grants-recipients-and-research/plant-foods-to-reduce-genotoxicity.html

https://studyfinds.com/dna-month-eating-vegan/

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/one-month-on-a-vegan-diet-shifts-epigenetic-patterns-associated-with-aging-and-inflammation

 

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“Our study adds to growing evidence that nutrition can shape biology at the molecular level,” said Max Storz, MD, from University of Freiburg Medical Center and co-senior author of the study. “The next step is to understand whether these epigenetic changes persist over time and whether they translate into meaningful improvements in long-term health. That will require larger clinical studies, but these findings provide an important foundation.” Storz also stressed that the findings are not the result of reduced calories, but rather a matter of diet composition.

 

[Hojo]

Maybe it mean that when we eat the body uses the casing of DNA but if its an animal the DNA is already full and your body can only fill so much of you into it. Where if its a banana it can add more of you into it. The animals move around and think and stuff so more DNA usage.

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[Jirh]

Obviously, diet matters and it is important. The body reacts differently to different inputs. That shouldn't be a surprise.

But to claim what we eat fundamentally changes who we are on the DNA level is a big leap and a stretch. There's nothing to support such nonsense.