Getting used to the idea that you have
a disease is different for each person.
Not exact matches
The US Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says this strain
is so
different from existing human flu viruses that most
people have no immunity to it.
Geneticists have so far concentrated on genes that
are linked to
disease: first the simple but rare inherited
diseases like cystic fibrosis (the gene
for which
is on chromosome 7) or Huntington's (chromosome 4), then the environmental
diseases for which
different people inherit
different susceptibilities, such as Alzheimer's (chromosome 19) or breast cancer (chromosomes 13 and 17).
Their outcomes ultimately say nothing about the treatment: The
people received the drug at
different stages of
disease, and four
were evacuated to wealthy countries
for top - notch care — likely the most important determinant of survival.
Moreover, causal situations may
be different for different individuals - while one
person may develop schizophrenia due to a strong family history of mental illness, someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the
disease due to a significant pre-natal or environmental stressor during their lives.
Moreover, risk factors may
be different for different individuals - while one
person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the
disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.
People who
are allergic to wheat may also experience reactions within the GI tract, but the branch of the immune system that
is activated during an allergic reaction
is different from the branch responsible
for the autoimmune reactions of Celiac
Disease.
He states that, other than
for people with celiac
disease, «there
is no role
for «gluten - free» foods beyond the occasional indulgence, since the metabolic effect of these goods
is little
different from eating a bowl of jelly beans.»
Given what we know about clinical nutrition, that sometimes a startling mix of foods can
be used to help
people in certain
disease states — more ice cream and gravy
for someone undergoing cancer treatment, less protein and fewer vegetables
for someone with kidney
disease — and since dividing your risk among a wide variety of
different foods can help hedge your health bets, the idea that there
are universally good or bad foods doesn't hold up well under scrutiny.
In addition, naturopathic medicine recognizes that all individuals
are unique and so treatments must
be tailored to the individual rather than the
disease (
for example, treating anxiety in one
person may require quite a
different approach versus another
person with the same health concern).
We'll stick with the clogged artery
for a moment and coronary artery
disease but you have a number of anecdotes in your book,
different people that you've worked with and one of them I just wanted to highlight because I know someone who has recently had something similar so this
was your story with Barry and Elizabeth and Barry had... his mind went blank.
There
is far too much variability among the needs of
different groups of
people sick and healthy at a time when autoimmune
disease is tripling, quadrupling and more
for reasons not yet made clear, but assumed to
be of an environmental cause.
Much work
is done by looking
for correlations —
for example, finding out whether
people in
different cultures with
different intakes of fats differ in their rates of heart
disease.
Overweight
people are at higher risk of heart
disease, diabetes, and other issues that
are exacerbated by weight gain, and it
's no
different for your Chihuahua.
A dog that
's had many early positive experiences with lots of
different people, including her veterinarian,
is more likely to see the vet
for routine wellness appointments, which can help prevent many
diseases.