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The set point — reprogramming your genes and cells for healthy weight
— References & further reading

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² Müller, M., et al. 2010. Is there evidence for a set point that regulates human body weight? F1000 Med. Rep., 2, 59. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990627/?tool=pubmed (accessed 10.05.2011).

³ Gibbs, W. 1996. Interview with Rudolph L. Liebel. URL: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=interview-with-rudolph-l&page=1 (accessed 03.20.2009).

⁴ Hayashi, K., et al. 2006. Laughter regulates gene expression in patients with type 2 diabetes. Psychother. Psychosom., 75 (1), 62–65. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16361876 (accessed 03.20.2009).

Hori, M., et al. 2009. Positive emotion-specific changes in the gene expression profile of tickled rats. Mol. Med. Rep., 2 (2), 157–161. URL: http://www.spandidos-publications.com/mmr/2/2/157 (accessed 03.20.2009).

⁵ Hayashi, K., et al. 2007. Laughter modulates prorenin receptor gene expression in patients with type 2 diabetes. J. Psychosom. Res., 62 (6), 703–706. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17540229 (accessed 03.20.2009).

Hayashi, K., et al. 2007. Laughter up-regulates the genes related to NK cell activity in diabetes. Biomed. Res., 28 (6), 281–285. URL (PDF): http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biomedres/28/6/281/_pdf (accessed 03.20.2009).

Nasir, U., et al. 2005. Laughter therapy modulates the parameters of renin-angiotensin system in patients with type 2 diabetes. Int. J. Mol. Med., 16 (6), 1077–1081. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16273289 (accessed 03.20.2009).

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Minieri, M., & Di Nardo, P. 2007. Nutrients: the environmental regulation of cardiovascular gene expression. Genes Nutr., 2 (2), 163–168. URL: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=18850172 (accessed 03.20.2009).

Berdanier, C. 2006. Mitochondrial gene expression: influence of nutrients and hormones. Exper. Biol. Med., 231 (10), 1593–1601. URL: http://www.ebmonline.org/cgi/content/full/231/10/1593 (accessed 03.20.2009).

Schuster, G.U. 2006. Nutrients and gene expression. In Kaput J., Rodriguez R.L., eds. Nutritional Genomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Clarke, S., & Abraham, S. 1992. Gene expression: Nutrient control of pre-and posttranscriptional events. FASEB J., 6 (13), 3146-3152. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1397836 (accessed 03.20.2009).

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