Personalized medicine doesn’t start with knowing your genetic polymorphisms. It doesn’t even get there for a while or maybe ever.
PM starts with admitting you’re a piece of meat with benefits. For example, test your bacteria for resistance to specific antibiotics; your bacteria are a part of “you” and have a say in what “your immune system” ends outputting. And so on. I have my own meat quirks, so I won’t get into other examples. I just wanted to point out that “everybody has some Xs” doesn’t mean “starting with Xs is not-personalized”. It might be not-personalized enough, yes.
(The link to the FB post which made me think about it: https://www.facebook.com/1083787039/posts/10221476648680647/
it’s in Russian. Basically, a girl came to a doctor to ask why is she fat despite there being no genetic polymorphisms pointing that way. The doctor starts to think the fashion to be less harmless than he used to.)
Personalized medicine doesn’t start with knowing your genetic polymorphisms. It doesn’t even get there for a while or maybe ever.
PM starts with admitting you’re a piece of meat with benefits. For example, test your bacteria for resistance to specific antibiotics; your bacteria are a part of “you” and have a say in what “your immune system” ends outputting. And so on. I have my own meat quirks, so I won’t get into other examples. I just wanted to point out that “everybody has some Xs” doesn’t mean “starting with Xs is not-personalized”. It might be not-personalized enough, yes.
(The link to the FB post which made me think about it: https://www.facebook.com/1083787039/posts/10221476648680647/ it’s in Russian. Basically, a girl came to a doctor to ask why is she fat despite there being no genetic polymorphisms pointing that way. The doctor starts to think the fashion to be less harmless than he used to.)