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So the other thing I really like about this, besides the fact that it brings a whole new dimension into the study of control of disease, is that often the kinds of interventions that you want, that it indicates should be done, are the kinds of interventions that people want anyhow.
And in an age where we have too many choices, we have very little fear of pregnancy and disease and we've got no feeling of shame for sex before marriage, I think people are taking their time to love.
Four: I lost my sight to a rare genetic eye disease.
When I was diagnosed with my blinding disease, I knew blindness would ruin my life.
I saw every kind of specialist: infectious disease doctors, dermatologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists.
I thought I had a rare disease, something doctors had never seen.
For decades, that's a name that's meant that this has been the dominant image of a disease that can be as serious as this.
It's estimated that about 15 to 30 million people around the world have this disease.
How could a disease this common and this devastating have been forgotten by medicine?
When I began investigating the history of my own disease, I was amazed to find how deep these ideas still run.
Since then, there have been more than 70 outbreaks documented around the world, of a strikingly similar post-infectious disease.
All of these outbreaks have tended to disproportionately affect women, and in time, when doctors failed to find the one cause of the disease, they thought that these outbreaks were mass hysteria.
The ignorance surrounding my disease has been a choice, a choice made by the institutions that were supposed to protect us.
This issue is much bigger than just my disease.
I learned of one woman with scleroderma, an autoimmune connective tissue disease, who was told for years that it was all in her head.
Forty-five percent of patients who are eventually diagnosed with a recognized autoimmune disease are initially told they're hypochondriacs.
Seventy-five percent of autoimmune disease patients are women, and in some diseases, it's as high as 90 percent.
Even once the true cause of my disease is discovered, if we don't change our institutions and our culture, we will do this again to another disease.
And those calories are in foods that cause, not prevent, disease.
And with our hyper-consumption of those animals producing greenhouse gases and heart disease, kindness might just be a bit of a red herring.
But listen: experts who are serious about disease reduction recommend that adults eat just over half a pound of meat per week.
At that time, in the second half of the last century, science was curing disease and lifting us to the moon, and the sexual revolution was breaking down barriers, and the Civil Rights Movement began its march toward the fulfillment of our nation's promise.
You also probably know that cancer is considered a genetic disease.
By genetic disease we mean that cancer is caused by oncogenes that are turned on in cancer and tumor suppressor genes that are turned off to cause cancer.
We had no idea what was causing this disease.
And it was a highly romanticized disease.
But a lot of what was true in the early 1900s about infectious disease, we can say now about psychiatric disorders.
They were so used to looking at it from the perspective of this one disease, they could not see the larger implications for another disease.
A painkiller will make you feel better, but is not going to do anything to treat that underlying disease.
Antidepressants only suppress symptoms, and that is why you basically have to keep taking them for the life of the disease, which is often the length of your own life.
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