"Thinking Outside the Box"...
Over Time...
One day it will be common practice to feed, hunt the gyp on purpose to produce better pups...there will be a science for doing these thing to change/modify the genetic make-up to include the in our hunting dogs...
I recorded a Nova Show (documentary) about lead in water “POISONED WATER”, it was about water issues in the city of Flint, Michigan…
They were discussing how lead poisoning affected children to include babies in the womb…the scientists say that lead goes where calcium goes in our bodies and they also said an unborn child will be born with the lead in their system because it was transported from mom to fetus…lead will replace some of the calcium where calcium is supposed to be concentrated and one of these places is between neurons which are involved with the communications system of the nervous system and this includes the brain…the lead disrupts this function especially in young children with developing brains…Calcium is also vital in brain cell health and is needed in maintaining healthy cells and for cells to produce more cells for growth…
The average IQ in children of Flint, Michigan was tested to be 86 and the average should be 100…
As already mentioned the science research indicates that the pregnant moms fetus when needing calcium for fetus development will furnish the fetus with the needed calcium and since the lead tends to congregate where the calcium is located, then the fetus can get lead poisoning through this process as well…the brain that has been exposed to high levels of lead in a child will have a smaller brain than that of a child who has not been exposed to high levels of lead…there are many different studies about the mother and her unborn child about other conditions good and bad, and if we are to learn more about these things…then it is possible to breed better dogs and raise children with a head start in life…
see you tube video below and you can visualize more of what is coming one day...breeding to a higher level...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqG5TagD0uUthe video...in reality this is nothing new...it is a pert of evolution that has probably been here since the beginning of time...the only difference is that some scientist are discovering a better understanding as to how things can change in living things...as the public (people) begins to understand then individuals or companies can use this knowledge to their advantage once they understand...does it make a difference? maybe yes and maybe no...I choose to believe yes...
a short story that is an example of raising the level of understanding in things...
at work in our safety meeting, especially in the hot months the safety folks talk about heat stress and to stay hydrated...after I developed a few theories on dehydration I asked the safety man why I should stay hydrated and he said because you don't want to over heat...
I felt like my interest and the unborn pup/child went hand in hand with dehydration so I did some research and it made sense to me on what I rad and connected the two as I read...
The brain, major organs including the heart, lungs and blood are made up of over 80 percent water...even our bones are made up of 30 percent water...we are made up roughly of 65 percent water...digesting our food to extract the nutrients takes water for the digestion system to work optimally...our blood circulation works best when hydrated properly...our blood carries the oxygen and nutrients to our
cells throughout our bodies including the brain...this keeps us alert and focused to better do our jobs...this focus and alertness will in itself help us to minimize accidents to ourselves or to our coworkers...
so when the blood circulation slows down our blood pressure goes up, our cells receive less nutrients and we can lose our alertness...of course there are many other things that happen because of it...
after the meeting a few guys came and said they never thought of this before but it made perfect sense as to why we really should stay hydrated...
I said all this just to try and make my point...most of the time we have one common level of understanding for many many years without really understanding the higher level even though it has always been there...
Rueben again don’t take this wrong way or in a negative context, this is the angle that I’m seeing things based upon your analogies and I’m having a difficult time seeing any correlation between what most folks learn in middle school health and physical education classes pertaining to the importance of water and hydration and our bodies and your theory on epigenetics and how outside influences have an impact on a fetus inside a pregnant females womb, be it a human or K9, the only discoveries made by scientist about EGs is that stress and nutritional deficiencies are the two reasons why there is any effect on on an animals DNA structure based off of what we know about EGs, and stress and nutritional deficiencies go hand in hand, when an animal is deprived of essential nourishment then its body easily succumbs to stress and when an animal is severely stressed it doesn’t eat as it should and when it doesnt eat the body has a hard time digesting and metabolizing what it has ingested, even then if there is an actual change in the DNA structure those changes aren’t permanent and more than likely be fixed back to normal in a few generations based on what scientist know and understand about EGs, when I first discovered EGs and how they work I was actually in the same school of thought your currently in and was thinking to myself, “ man we’re about to be able to change the game up” and had the EXACT same theories you do, almost word for word to be honest, I was dating a lady who has a bachelors in genetics and at the time was working towards a masters and was doing her thesis on EGs, I was quickly shot down and made to realize I was looking at these possibilities through rose tinted glasses and misunderstood the concepts of what scientist are discovering about this by her professor with whom I was corresponding with on this subject, I believe EGs and adaptation and evolution are a lot closer linked than what is understood at the moment and, at least in my opinion are keys to answers to a lot of questions of life outside the world of dog genetics, like I’ve stated before I believe more will come out of it than what we currently know the more research is done.
Now correct me if I’m wrong but going off of what im gathering on your theory on how EGs work, then a man would be able to
go purchase a female coonhound that has won the world hunt, buy a male that has won the world hunt, (same breeds of course), mate the two dogs mentioned above with each other and feed the pregnant female coon meat and coon blood and let her tree a coon every night during the duration of her pregnancy and have extremely greater odds of producing an entire litter of world champion caliber dogs than Mr. A.L Nighthunter who has good quality dogs that are competitive whenever, where ever, and against whoever, and only feeds his dogs kibble and keeps a pregnant female isolated to her whelping pen during her gestation, this going solely off what you’ve mentioned about like dogs producing like dogs and from what I’m
Gathering of your EGs theory, like I said don’t take this as poking at you, I’m just trying to get a better understanding from where your coming from with this...
Here’s something else to wonder about if you haven’t already, that could, in reality, actually have a greater lasting impact on the way we breed dogs and that is neurogenetics or behavioral genetics, it’s already scientific fact that different parts of the brain control different functions such as the frontal lobe controlling the interpretation of the 5 senses, motor skills, processing of the 5 senses, reflexes, agility, higher learning
and the temporal lobe controlling the action of finer muscle control and skills, regulation of blood flow and pulse rate, the brains reward center, endurance and stamina, and memory just to name a few. Now it has been speculated and not yet proven that only the male contributes the DNA for the formation of the cerebrum (frontal lobe) and the female only contributes the DNA for the cerebellum( temporal lobe), if this is in fact proven to be true then it will give us the ability to take our breedings to a higher level by being able to understand the heritability and expression of what traits we’re looking for, and how to selectively line our breedings out to make the most of this knowledge, now I know this is pretty deep and in no way a complete substitute for what we already know about basic genetics but to give those who like to have a better understanding of how things work something to ponder over...
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