Category: genetics

A Disease by Any Other Name – examining the roots of chronic disease

Looking from the outside, the chronic diseases humans have look like very different things. Diabetes looks nothing like arthritis. Osteoporosis looks nothing like heart disease or Alzheimer’s. But if we switch our perspective, to that from inside the body, things change. The pharmaceutical paradigm is built on a research paradigm that looks for…

February 2, 2018
The Medicines of the Future

A few years ago I was speaking with a drug researcher at UC Irvine who was looking for natural products (herbs, in Western parlance) that showed promise as cancer therapies. As I know a lot about herbs, I suggested I assist him in identifying targets, and in exchange he could help me do some…

September 22, 2016
Published – First in the series on epigenetics (better late than never!)

http://www.alnmag.com/articles/2014/07/can-life-experience-shape-genes-we-pass-along

November 2, 2014