My friend was recently blaming genetics for fill-in-the-blank disease. “My doctor says it’s genetic; there’s nothing I can do about it.” In this case, it happened to be cardiovascular disease, but I think that it’s a pretty common sentiment.
Yet, there may be many ways to avoid problems, even when your genes predispose you to a specific condition. Weston A Price suggested this was possible with nutrition. Modern science now has an entire field of study (epigenetics) devoted to it.
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