The deck was stacked in favor of success in
the choice of this particular disease since it was known that the therapeutic gene just had to be expressed in a modest number of blood cells to achieve therapeutic benefit.
Not exact matches
These include obsessive focus on food
choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source
of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated faith that inclusion or elimination
of particular kinds
of food can prevent or cure
disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged; moral judgment
of others based on dietary
choices; body image distortion around sense
of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence
of malnutrition.
In stead
of promoting 1
particular approach as better than all the rest, I think that we can actually tailor our dietary
choices to our specific needs and based on our health status (or
disease status as the case may be).
There are some chronic health conditions that may affect our
choice of medication for a
particular dog (such as epilepsy or liver
disease), but this has more to do with how the medication might be processed by the body than any inherent danger
of the drug itself.
«In this
particular situation, it turns out that my decision to decline all
of the «recommended» vaccines, except for the rabies booster, was a good
choice as the SNAP 4Dx (checked in - house afterward) indicated that my dog has Lyme
disease.