For some years scientists have been working to isolate what they suggest are faulty genes and in so doing introduce a therapy whereby diseases hitherto thought to be untreatable, can be got under control.
I have just read an interesting article which I recommend to everyone to read:
Thank you, very interesting. Our environment is the one to blame, I am afraid I cannot blame my mum or dad!
A professor who did not smoke or rink, healthy eating daily exercise ended up with stomach cancer, "How can this happen?" Environment?
Its was quite possibly environment, for example asbestos causes cancer. I was a University lecturer for 27 years and I know that just before I joined my final University they had to close the whole building down, move everyone out for 12 months and remove the asbestos from the building. Has this damaged people who worked there before I joined, who knows
Gene therapy and diagnosis offers the next great hope for the Pharma industry. If they can convince you that your genes are the real culprit then medications can be sold before you are even sick, maybe as earl y as 5 or 6 years old. You can expect Statins to be prescribed to infant school children. In mots cases genes are not your fate, they have to be expressed and it is our poor environment and food that allows this expression. Heart disease and cancer are predominantly food/environment borne illnesses otherwise why else would the distribution world wide be so uneven and in some areas virtually non existent
The distribution is uneven because in some parts of the world, other things are more likely to kill you before heart disease gets a chance!
Gene therapy is unlikely to be much of a money-spinner for big pharma because it's expected to be a one-shot treatment to correct the gene, which may be expensive but not the thousands of dollars a year per person for ongoing treatment with a patnented drug like Praluent.
Not the case, if you can convince people that the APOE4 gene is your ticket to Alzheimers then you can convince them that they they need a magical Alzheimers pill from an early age. The Bluezones to name but 6 live longer than us and precisely because they have such low levels of heart disease and cancer
That article does indeed read like a health scam. "while hereditary defects do occur, the struggle for existence, as happens in the evolutionary process, keeps these failures very rare indeed. According to Cleave, hereditary defect does not exceed 5 per 1,000 live births" - appealing to "the evolutionary process" would require rather more serious defects than diabetes, actual serious threats to survival and one's chance of reproduction and passing the genes on. Do many people refuse to procreate with a diabetic?
Should I take statins when I have familial hypercholesterolemia?
Does running harden your arteries??
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