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This story about the causes of Parkinson’s is a microcosm of how lifestyle and environment are way more predictive of disease and mortality than #genetics.

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/

#EPA #toxicology #policy #exercise #diet #nutrition #epidemiology #wellbeing #health #science
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WIRED

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water

New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.

#toxicology #epidemiology #genetics #epa #nutrition #diet #exercise #policy #health #science #wellbeing

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de · 4 months ago

“Oxford researchers determined that lifestyle and the environment is 10 times more likely to explain early death than #genetics.”

“The Human Genome Project [found] Five percent of all disease is purely genetic. Less than 40 percent of diseases even have a genetic component.”
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