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Been thinking about genetics a lot lately...so is it nature or nurture?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 536116" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Those examples of mine were about severe environmental factors. But if they influence, so are likely the more subtle ones. And it is likely some people are much more sensitive for those factors than others. In many cases I think it is something like type 2 diabetes. There are some people, who have so strong predisposition to it, that it doesn't help, how healthy lifestyle they have, how well they eat, exercise and keep their weight in check, they still get it. Those are the few, I know at least one person like that. Then there are much more people who simply don't have the genes for that. They don't get it even if they would do everything like they shouldn't. I know many more people like that. But there are many, many people (with diabetes I think the most of us), who are somewhere between. With right lifestyle choices we are able to not get diabetes 2, but if we have risky lifestyle we may get it. And the more risk factors we have, the more likely it is, that we will have it.</p><p></p><p>If I have understood right bipolar is strongly hereditary and is of course a serious illness that can mess person's life. And for some medications really help, but for some they don't or the side effects are too much. In that they the genes are your destiny, maybe together with whatever environmental factors may be that may either cause you to have that illness you have the genetic predisposition or may help you to avoid it. Same goes to many physical illnesses too (and I kind of think that some day they will really find out the neuro-chemical factors that make a person bipolar or schizophrenic and those illnesses will turn out not to be much different from other chemical imbalances like diabetes or many others.)</p><p></p><p>I think lately one of the big area of interest with many illnesses has been viruses and how they may influence to onsets of different illnesses. I remember reading something about virus infection of the mother while pregnant and it's connection to for example schizophrenia. Also right now in northern Europe there is a epidemic of narcolepsy (with serious behavioural symptoms) caused by swine-flu vaccine and they don't really know, if it was only the vaccine or was there a genetic factor in it, because it seems the outbreak has been mainly in Scandinavia and same brand was used also in some other countries that have not have increase in narcolepsy. And if I remember correctly, the outbreaks of narcolepsy in children have gone up to ten times from normal in those Scandinavian countries.</p><p></p><p>These are not simple matters and we still know very little about how human body really works and which causes what or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 536116, member: 14557"] Those examples of mine were about severe environmental factors. But if they influence, so are likely the more subtle ones. And it is likely some people are much more sensitive for those factors than others. In many cases I think it is something like type 2 diabetes. There are some people, who have so strong predisposition to it, that it doesn't help, how healthy lifestyle they have, how well they eat, exercise and keep their weight in check, they still get it. Those are the few, I know at least one person like that. Then there are much more people who simply don't have the genes for that. They don't get it even if they would do everything like they shouldn't. I know many more people like that. But there are many, many people (with diabetes I think the most of us), who are somewhere between. With right lifestyle choices we are able to not get diabetes 2, but if we have risky lifestyle we may get it. And the more risk factors we have, the more likely it is, that we will have it. If I have understood right bipolar is strongly hereditary and is of course a serious illness that can mess person's life. And for some medications really help, but for some they don't or the side effects are too much. In that they the genes are your destiny, maybe together with whatever environmental factors may be that may either cause you to have that illness you have the genetic predisposition or may help you to avoid it. Same goes to many physical illnesses too (and I kind of think that some day they will really find out the neuro-chemical factors that make a person bipolar or schizophrenic and those illnesses will turn out not to be much different from other chemical imbalances like diabetes or many others.) I think lately one of the big area of interest with many illnesses has been viruses and how they may influence to onsets of different illnesses. I remember reading something about virus infection of the mother while pregnant and it's connection to for example schizophrenia. Also right now in northern Europe there is a epidemic of narcolepsy (with serious behavioural symptoms) caused by swine-flu vaccine and they don't really know, if it was only the vaccine or was there a genetic factor in it, because it seems the outbreak has been mainly in Scandinavia and same brand was used also in some other countries that have not have increase in narcolepsy. And if I remember correctly, the outbreaks of narcolepsy in children have gone up to ten times from normal in those Scandinavian countries. These are not simple matters and we still know very little about how human body really works and which causes what or not. [/QUOTE]
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