I’ve read recently about fears of immunizations affecting DNA. I understand that this is not the case and that the injection is “Genetic Material” to give instructions to your body to replicate certain things.
What I don’t understand is: Your genetics affect your future children; so by introducing genetic material aren’t you changing the DNA of future humans?
If in fact this is the case isn’t it possible that you won’t see side effects of these injected materials until the next generation is born?
In: Biology
You have genetic material put inside your body all the time. If you eat food then youre probably ingesting genetic material.
Remember that just because something is DNA doesnt mean your body is going to do anything with it. Think of the DNA like its a CD, just because you put a CD into a machine doesn’t mean its gonna begin playing music. If the machine is a woodchipper then its not really gonna be affected much. Thats kinda what its like when you put random genetic material into your body.
When it comes to vaccines that is generally a super weakened virus (or dead one) thats training your body to be able ti fight it. Think about it like a tutorial level in a video game where you show what the bad guys are. There certainly is genetic material in those viruses, along with proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates. Genetic material is just one of the things that organic stuff is made of.
And finally keep in mind that the only place where genes affect your kids is in your sex organs. You can replace the DNA of every other cell in your boy but if you don’t change the sex organs specifically then it wont matter. The instructions for making a human are all there already, its not like it pulls from all over the body to assemble DNA for how to build each body part.
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