Not exact matches
So while your genetics may increase your risk, keep
in mind that so do various other
environmental and lifestyle
factors.
And,
in my opinion, the smartest
minds in the field do tend to implicate widespread
environmental factors as a leading reason for such a dramatic shift
in our endocrine health.
However, with the above
in mind, we still need to institute measures that reduce allostatic load when the above mentioned
factors and other
environmental stressors are clearly excessive.
One last
environmental factor to keep
in mind with birds
in the parrot family is that they love to chew.
The notion of air, aside from being the one
factor that distinguishes earth from all other planets, continues to shift
in our
mind with the advent of technological innovations (e.g. wireless communication) and
environmental concerns (ozone layers, global warming).
With the caveat
in mind that FR - EXT may reflect both genetic and
environmental influences, the availability of DNA analysis
in the next future will allow us to refine our analyses by including genetic polymorphisms as risk
factors.