Burra Maluca wrote:
In my profile, I suddenly SAW genetic problems
I think maybe we're just not understanding what a genetic profile actually *is*. And how you see problems with it.
Could you explain? Is it some kind of test? What does it involve?
Ah yes, thanks for your patient questions. I went through 23andme to get my genome profiled, which includes many thousands of the most commonly known genes related to health among other inherited traits. While some people may distrust this Google's child of a company for hoarding genetic information,
for right around 100 bucks (way cheaper than one visit to the doctor) it seems thousands of people have been able to
answer all kinds of Mystery Diagnosis questions from
merely spitting into a vial and rendering unto Google/23andme.
The FDA reacted by
banning 23andme from dispensing health prognosis reports, but users all over
online have learned to get around this by going through free or cheap genome data interpretation services such as geneticgenie.org
So a whole world of people are finding practical ways of dealing with the autism spectrum, heart disease, allergies, chronic pain, immune system disorders, etc. Just googling MTHFR (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism) will show this to anyone interested. MTHFR has become a buzz word for all kinds of "health" web sites. But in my
experience, it is not just another scam.
My own family has been a bit reluctant to dive into the learning curve, perhaps because it would mean things like giving up beer or wheat, so I made 2 videos for my tween nephews (and I have no idea if they've watched them yet)
in this second video you can see a sample of a report from geneticgenie