Weil is less enthusiastic about white, or button, mushrooms, a species of mushroom that also includes Portobellos and criminis. âButton mushrooms do possess some health benefits, but not the general health benefits found in Asian mushrooms,â Weil says.
What sort of information do they encode, and how can this affect a cell's characteristics and activities? Some genes enable cells to make proteins needed for basic functions; dubbed housekeeping genes, they are active in many types of cells. Other genes, however, are inactive most of the time. Some genes play a role in early development of the embryo and are then shut down forever. Many genes encode proteins that are unique to a particular kind of cell and that give the cell its character - making a brain cell, say, different from a bone cell. A normal cell activates just the genes it needs at the moment and actively suppresses the rest.
All cancers are caused by changes to materials in our bodies called â genes .â These are units of information in every cell of our bodies. Genes tell our bodies which proteins to make based on the type of cell and its needs.Some genes tell our bodies how to fix damage accumulated over time from normal aging, environmental toxins, sun exposure, dietary factors, hormones, and other influences.hese damage-controlling genes can repair cells or tell cells when to stop growing and die if there is too much damage to repair. When genes themselves are damaged, they can develop changes called â mutations. â When mutations occur in the damage-controlling genes, cells can grow out of control and cause cancer.