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Hiding Your
Own Medical Information From You
Advancements in DNA analysis can potentially put vital information about
your health and disease risks at your fingertips.
The bad news is that the FDA restricts what DNA testing services are
allowed to tell you about yourself. The
Trump administration is pushing to make reforms of some of this needless over
regulation however.
The FDA restricts the availability of potentially life-saving drugs and
drives up the costs of those drugs which finally make it to market and even
tries to do likewise with regard to blood and DNA testing services which don’t
dispense drugs or perform surgeries or provide any kind of medical advice or
treatment. These tests, when put through
a lab analysis can reveal vital information about you.
For some reason, regulators think this information is dangerous in the
hands of us mere mortals, so they limit what you can know about your own body.
In 2013, the FDA sent a cease and desist order to 23andMe, a leading
purveyor of direct to consumer genetic testing.
The agency whined that the firm was letting its customers become too
knowledgeable on their own. The FDA
effectively told them consumers would be forced to spend more money by going
through their doctors to get genetic information that 23andMe provided.
The firm fought back and in 2015 the FDA relaxed their ban slightly on
36 genetic markers, a small fraction of the markers that could be
analyzed. The rest are preemptively
impounded by the FDA. Among the genetic
screenings that are banned by the FDA are those for breast cancer and
Alzheimer’s disease.
An End-Run-Around the FDA
There is a means to obtaining “uninterpreted raw genetic data” from
23andMe. You can take the data to a
specialist for further analysis.
For $5-$10 one can run it through a service called Promethease, which
will produce a report that explains some of the medical information that may be
encoded in your DNA. You may still wish
to discuss the results with your own doctor.
Reports of DNA kits that were to be sold via drug stores, then held back
and then allowed keep surfacing and I have not double checked nor have I looked
into some of the kits being sold via TV ads.
Another service that can unlock some of the information hidden in your
DNA is LiveWello. It expands upon the
personal denomics profiles provided by services such as 23andMe. It processes genetic raw data files to
generate variance and health reports.
Clues to how much life we have left to live may be found in your DNA.
Specifically, in the length of the protective caps, called telomeres,
that cover the ends of every strand of DNA.
These telomeres shrink over time as we age and serve as short of
biological hour glasses. Geneticists may
someday figure out how to slow or even reverse the aging process at the
chromosomal level.
In the meantime, a firm called Telomere Diagnostics [which runs the
TeloYears genetic test] can glean potentially useful information by measuring
the length of your telomeres.
DNA testing firms are part of a growing area of retail genomics that
promise an era of personalized medicine, direct to individuals, at lower
cost. Eventually, you may find testing
labs in your area which offer such diagnostic services.
NOTE: Today more people have
access to cell phones than working toilets, and the average person checks their
phone 110 times a day – and nearly every 6 seconds in the evening! This perpetual interaction is a detriment to
our productivity and personal safety and is actually hurting our
intelligence. A study at King’s College
at London University found that when distracted, workers suffered a 10 to 15
point IQ loss – a greater dumbing down than experienced when smoking
marijuana. A fifteen-point deficiency is
significant, as it brings an adult down to the same IQ level as an
eight-year-old child.
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2 comments:
We wouldn't want the FDA to find out that there are aliens among us!
The government treats its citizens as if they were in grade school [and they steal our money on top of that and invade our privacy]...appreciate the tips you provided.
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