Overwhelming advice distracting

Posted on 26-10-2013 16:59 | By algail

Barry The name of the game is agenda. Everybody has an agenda the most successful being the anti- smoker brigade. I am in my 80s I still smoke always have always will. I scoff sweets and chocolates eat white bread love cream as I love all sweet things. I have done all the things that the experts tell me will kill people. I still work up to ten hours a day at times I still am active in martial arts so why am I still here.? Well I am still here and active simply because I have good genes. Genes will be the deciding factor in most cases if you aint got the gene then aint gonna get the disease. I know and accept there are polymorphisms of a pharmagenomic nature and epigenomics nutrigenomics nature that can cause a variety of pathologies which have to be considered .The human genome is riddled with dead genes, fossils of a sort, dating back hundreds of thousands of years - the genome's equivalent of an attic full of broken and useless junk which we refer to as junk DNA quite a few nasty disease have been brought to life by such genes .. So nothing all the anti's of every variety who are so rabid in their claims are generally talking nonsense. Many things they claim will cause a disease will not what they will do, say smoking is hurry up a disease that you genetically disposed to rather than cause it. It is interesting for me that every lung cancer patient I have seen was a non smoker but they had such genes as MYCL1 FHIT Pb2/p130 Zac1 RaeCt among some 20 or so more genes located on almost as many Chromosomes and that is what caused the cancer .The mind is a powerful tool and if one believes something is good for you then possibly could be just as something one believes is bad for one then it possibly will be. The Placebo has been used with great success for over a century and will continue to be used and will continue to work. Fortunately for us everything is not black and white . Hey do remember when everyone well just about everyone smoked and who heard of Asthma or other bronchial conditions and allergies. If all the dread things did in fact happen because of all the things the doom and gloom brigade did eventuate quite simply there would be no older generation about today. There are far too many people about these days offering unsolicited advice. Alastair Bethlehem