[extropy-chat] Effectiveness of Medicine

Morris Johnson mfj.eav at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 15:21:47 UTC 2005


Frrom Robin Hansen:
Well you can certainly "effect" you health at low cost by taking
random chemicals pitched by "Natural Health Products" salesman
- as you point out this sometimes produces catastrophic harm.
But this is hardly evidence that people on average improve their
health by such actions.


What I am saying is that since the globalization of food supply
transactions, the greater dietary
choice availability in restaurants and Natural health product stores as well
as the introduction
of a myriad of novel compounds into the everyday environment we all are
guinea pigs, unless
we live in a rural setting. Even then we are bathed in EM signatures from
everything from GPS
to RF fields not the least of which is our own home wiring.
 These are novel things to our nutrigenomic and epigenetic profiles since
the last 150 years
and in largest measure only since the 1950's.
 I may be a bit more adventurous than some, but I also think I understand
more than the
average consumer. What I said was that despite what I feel I know, that the
sheer
number of new compounds consumed makes for the possibility of many
interactions
not documented formally which may individually be insignificant but taken
together
may have unknown long term consequences and that only time would reveal if
these
are significant positive or negative ones.
 But I am also saying that better documentation of health could track these
individual
nutrigenomic cases and with system-wide data mining could detect
consequences
by pulling needles from the haystack.
 What I am saying is that we are as a society by adding all these new inputs
enacting a global nutrigenomic experiment. The labs and researchers might be
working from the fine technical end but senendipity is also able to render
up
spontaneous examples from the population at large.
 Out of 6 billion there must be 300 million who are consuming in dietary
modifications
not common to past generations of their families.
 Like with the yellow, obese mice who when given B12, Folic Acid, and 2
other supplements gave birth
to skinny, dark coated mice it could happen to us too if we happen on just
that right
combination of genetic expression modifiers via drug/diet interactions.
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