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Each time we eat food that contains aflatoxin poisons, the toxic nucleotides (gene components) of aflatoxin’s DNA attach themselves to the host DNA and forms adducts. The host DNA will then not produce (replicate) the normal protein, but altered DNA with the aflatoxin adducts. This will continue for the many replications that will produce several such abnormal genes. This is how cancerous cells are built up in the body and perhaps a reason why aflatoxins are referred to as carcinogenic.
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