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Santa Rosa, CA: Energy Psychology Press/Elite Books, side the cell and even outside the body, it makes sense to
2007, 361 pages, ISBN: 9781600700224, $26.95, hardcover practice generating input (such as self-acceptance) that pro-
motes health and well-being and thus discourages the de-
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ergy medicine will dramatically affect the fields of medi- motivational tools and a comprehensive theoretical frame-
cine and psychology over the next decade. Given that the work for practitioners and patients alike.
pathways of epigenetic signaling are mediated by intention,
it strikes me that any treatment (including pharmaceutical Address reprint requests to:
drugs or surgery) can become epigenetic medicine if it is Elizabeth Sutherland, N.D.
administered in the context of a nurturing and conscious re- Helfgott Research Institute
lationship. The material in The Genie in Your Genes has far- National College of Natural Medicine
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and self-actualization through the conscious development of
positive intent. As such, it is inspirational and provides both E-mail: lsutherland@ncnm.edu