Disease
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It's even worse when you consider the fact that there's a terrible stigma, and you desperately don't want people to find that you have the
disease.
The shift is toward a public health model that recognizes situational and systemic vectors of
disease.
Bullying is a
disease.
Prejudice is a
disease.
Violence is a
disease.
Environments or ecologies, or communities where there's high risk of infectious disease, breast milk can be incredibly protective.
The same preparation that was supposed to protect us from hunger and famine is going to cause obesity, cardiovascular problems and metabolic
disease.
So this concept that genes could be marked by our experience, and especially the early life experience, can provide us a unifying explanation of both health and
disease.
Because epigenetic causes can cause diseases like cancer, metabolic
disease
and mental health diseases.
The other layer of information is the epigenetic layer, which is open and dynamic and sets up a narrative that is interactive, that allows us to control, to a large extent, our destiny, to help the destiny of our children and to hopefully conquer
disease
and serious health challenges that have plagued humankind for a long time.
And nowadays, we use it every day in hospitals, in positron emission tomography, or PET scans, used for detecting
disease.
Research has found that higher levels of discrimination are associated with an elevated risk of a broad range of diseases from blood pressure to abdominal obesity to breast cancer to heart
disease
and even premature mortality.
In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Abecedarian Project has figured out how to ensure that they have lowered the risks for heart
disease
for blacks in their mid-30s by providing high-quality day care from birth to age five.
Amongst a whole host of health issues, 12 people died by contracting Legionnaires
' disease.
We must stop stigmatizing
disease
and traumatizing the afflicted.
Financial illiteracy is a
disease
that has crippled minorities and the lower class in our society for generations and generations, and we should be furious about that.
So how do we cure this
disease?
Top of the mountain mining flooded that road, and now the only way for Jason to get to the patient living in that house with black lung
disease
is to drive his SUV against the current up that creek.
The good news is there are drugs that are highly effective at managing levels of HIV and preventing T cell counts from getting low enough for the
disease
to progress to AIDS.
It's like a
disease
where the sufferers feel pretty good, but the people around them suffer.
One of you probably has Alzheimer's
disease.
While the molecular causes of Alzheimer's are still debated, most neuroscientists believe that the
disease
begins when amyloid beta begins to accumulate.
This initial step into the disease, this presence of amyloid plaques accumulating, can already be found in your brains.
We think it takes at least 15 to 20 years of amyloid plaque accumulation before it reaches a tipping point, then triggering a molecular cascade that causes the clinical symptoms of the
disease.
So if you were a scientist trying to cure this disease, at what point would you ideally want to intervene?
Some autopsy studies have shown that as many as 80 percent of people with Alzheimer's also had cardiovascular
disease.
Aerobic exercise has been shown in many studies to decrease amyloid beta in animal models of the
disease.
There's one more thing you can do to protect yourself from experiencing the symptoms of Alzheimer's, even if you have the full-blown
disease
pathology ablaze in your brain.
So even if they have a
disease
like Alzheimer's compromising some of their synapses, they've got many extra backup connections, and this buffers them from noticing that anything is amiss.
And if, despite all of this, you are someday diagnosed with Alzheimer's, there are three lessons I've learned from my grandmother and the dozens of people I've come to know living with this
disease.
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