Most mail and magazines that arrive unwanted in your mail box usually qualify as junk. (Sorry USPS, there is such a thing as "Junk Mail") And today was no exception, being its the holiday season. Being constantly inquisitive has proven a valuable trait of mine and it was helpful this day. I found a magazine titled "Fast Company" with my name on it, and I thumbed through it to find any merritt for it making it beyond the recycle bin. To my surprise I found an article about the current state of genetic research that was hailed as being the science that could unlock the power to treat diseases and free us from the aging process, as short as 10 years ago. (http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/140/the-gene-bubble.html) So how far have we come and what was their conclusions? Don't buy any stock in genetic research, genetic based therapies or drugs and "Keep eating those greens" !
I find there is a sense among people and practitioners that "Science will save us" and "Science is Gospel", and that if we just wait long enough and give them enough funding we will be able to solve many of the problems we face. Unfortunately, the truth be told many of the contemporary problems we face, including our health epidemics, can be traced to our "cure" of other "problems". For example, many Allopathic medications that were meant to treat the symptoms of one disorder, in fact lead to other disorders that must be treated with even more medications. This has been a major problem in the Sick Care field and Bill Sardi provides some more details of this issue. (http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi90.html) In our desperation to be rid of any suffering and make it safely to death, we've accepted the cure that is worse than the disease. This plays out on many social and personal levels...
If there ever was any hope in Genome-Based treatments for disease, this article let the air out. First by giving you a better understanding of how Genome reasearch and treatments where meant to work then showing you the leading researcher companies and their achievements and status since the completion of the human genome project...which reads like a list of achievements from your 10 year highschool reunion, only with a whole lot more funding. (think Billions!) Then goes on to describe the major problems with trying to develop treatments using genetic coding. "It turns out that many dozens or even hundreds of genes each contribute to any given human attribute, and any one gene might contribute to several. Genes, in other words, turn out to work not as simple disease switches, but in impossibly complex networks." This problem gets even bigger, "For most major common diseases...specific genes are almost never asociated with more than 20%-30% increased chance of getting sick". Even more, specfic gene sequences that are identified as possibly contributing to a given disease can be "turned off" (or "On") by other genes, "Junk" DNA, RNA, their transient nature and various environmental factors such as diet, exercise, heavy metal toxicity, radiation, viruses and countless other environmental offenses. So to pinpoint and develop a treatment for any person, let alone a population, is of such an unidentifiable complexity that scientists describe this kind of research as "job security".
There seems to have been a useful payoff from all this genetic research, although most don't want to hear it. "In the vast majority of cases, individual genes apparently don't influence your destiny ...any more than your behavior does." So the age old advice of Eat whole foods, mostly vegetables, do some meaningful and enjoyable physical activity, laugh alot, eliminate toxic products from your life, don't smoke or drink, will likely be the expensive high-tech answer that we were originally looking for. And I would like to submit that all these can be found from regular visits to your own garden and kitchen...for a whole lot cheaper than regular visits to your doctors office.
So when we hear that someone has a "Genetic predisposition" to develop a certain disease, it seems its more sure than a death sentence and that there is nothing that we could do about it. Even sciences own research is only revealing just how little we really know and understand how the biology of life really works, yet they are willing to presume diagnosis and treatments with their patented medications. I think this is the same as placing the Doctors and scientists in the place of God. By following these well intending yet misguided prophets, we are ultimately bringing harm on ourselves.
" It is better to trust in God, than to put confidence in men" (Psalm 118:8, the very heart and middle of the Bible).
Ultimately God is the curegiver...we are just the caretakers. So the best way we can take care of our gift of life is to learn how our body works, and what kinds of treatments work with the way the body is designed to heal itself. It is both a curse and a blessing to have to work for our health and what supports life. The draining efforts of directly working for our food is what ultimately regenerates us. So dig in!...work the soil, learn how you are made, eat real food, cook your own real food, and share those blessing with others, because that is what will really regenerate us. For it will ultimately prove to be painful, worthless, and futile if we insist on trying provide our own salvation.
I find there is a sense among people and practitioners that "Science will save us" and "Science is Gospel", and that if we just wait long enough and give them enough funding we will be able to solve many of the problems we face. Unfortunately, the truth be told many of the contemporary problems we face, including our health epidemics, can be traced to our "cure" of other "problems". For example, many Allopathic medications that were meant to treat the symptoms of one disorder, in fact lead to other disorders that must be treated with even more medications. This has been a major problem in the Sick Care field and Bill Sardi provides some more details of this issue. (http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi90.html) In our desperation to be rid of any suffering and make it safely to death, we've accepted the cure that is worse than the disease. This plays out on many social and personal levels...
If there ever was any hope in Genome-Based treatments for disease, this article let the air out. First by giving you a better understanding of how Genome reasearch and treatments where meant to work then showing you the leading researcher companies and their achievements and status since the completion of the human genome project...which reads like a list of achievements from your 10 year highschool reunion, only with a whole lot more funding. (think Billions!) Then goes on to describe the major problems with trying to develop treatments using genetic coding. "It turns out that many dozens or even hundreds of genes each contribute to any given human attribute, and any one gene might contribute to several. Genes, in other words, turn out to work not as simple disease switches, but in impossibly complex networks." This problem gets even bigger, "For most major common diseases...specific genes are almost never asociated with more than 20%-30% increased chance of getting sick". Even more, specfic gene sequences that are identified as possibly contributing to a given disease can be "turned off" (or "On") by other genes, "Junk" DNA, RNA, their transient nature and various environmental factors such as diet, exercise, heavy metal toxicity, radiation, viruses and countless other environmental offenses. So to pinpoint and develop a treatment for any person, let alone a population, is of such an unidentifiable complexity that scientists describe this kind of research as "job security".
There seems to have been a useful payoff from all this genetic research, although most don't want to hear it. "In the vast majority of cases, individual genes apparently don't influence your destiny ...any more than your behavior does." So the age old advice of Eat whole foods, mostly vegetables, do some meaningful and enjoyable physical activity, laugh alot, eliminate toxic products from your life, don't smoke or drink, will likely be the expensive high-tech answer that we were originally looking for. And I would like to submit that all these can be found from regular visits to your own garden and kitchen...for a whole lot cheaper than regular visits to your doctors office.
So when we hear that someone has a "Genetic predisposition" to develop a certain disease, it seems its more sure than a death sentence and that there is nothing that we could do about it. Even sciences own research is only revealing just how little we really know and understand how the biology of life really works, yet they are willing to presume diagnosis and treatments with their patented medications. I think this is the same as placing the Doctors and scientists in the place of God. By following these well intending yet misguided prophets, we are ultimately bringing harm on ourselves.
" It is better to trust in God, than to put confidence in men" (Psalm 118:8, the very heart and middle of the Bible).
Ultimately God is the curegiver...we are just the caretakers. So the best way we can take care of our gift of life is to learn how our body works, and what kinds of treatments work with the way the body is designed to heal itself. It is both a curse and a blessing to have to work for our health and what supports life. The draining efforts of directly working for our food is what ultimately regenerates us. So dig in!...work the soil, learn how you are made, eat real food, cook your own real food, and share those blessing with others, because that is what will really regenerate us. For it will ultimately prove to be painful, worthless, and futile if we insist on trying provide our own salvation.
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