A pharmacogenetic panel that will tell you your response essentially to every drug on the market costs on the order of $300.
Fuck, maybe I should do one for fun of myself! Do you know what this panel is? Any other things I should try in this vein? (I had some rare AF lung/heart problems as a kid, used to be depressed and am generally healthy now, but I’d love to learn more).
There are a handful of SNPs (mainly in Cytochrome P450) that predict how fast you metabolize drugs. This is a shortcut to dosing drugs. But the big problem is that people don’t adjust their doses at all. The much more basic personalized medicine is to experiment with doses. If you aren’t doing that, using the SNPs as a shortcut to predict where to start isn’t much of an improvement.
Your link to the Matt Might article says:
Fuck, maybe I should do one for fun of myself! Do you know what this panel is? Any other things I should try in this vein? (I had some rare AF lung/heart problems as a kid, used to be depressed and am generally healthy now, but I’d love to learn more).
There are a handful of SNPs (mainly in Cytochrome P450) that predict how fast you metabolize drugs. This is a shortcut to dosing drugs. But the big problem is that people don’t adjust their doses at all. The much more basic personalized medicine is to experiment with doses. If you aren’t doing that, using the SNPs as a shortcut to predict where to start isn’t much of an improvement.