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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 8th 2017, 6:20 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

Yeah, amongst other things, they can tell you which chemotherapy drugs are likely to work best if you get cancer, based on the specific combinations of genes they find. So it seems like the kind of...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 8th 2017, 5:18 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

I almost did in October when there was a cheap deal for a full-body MRI and gene sequencing with analysis of both for possible health issues. But I'd have had to fly to California at short notice to...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 8th 2017, 5:00 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

Do a web search on biohackers, and you should come up with everything you need to know :).

The hardware to do it is still expensive, but prices will drop. Human gene sequencing, for example, has...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 8th 2017, 4:14 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

Years. But genetic modification is becoming so easy that people are doing it at home, so that's likely to change before long.

If I remember correctly, for type-1 they activate genes that aren't...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 7th 2017, 6:24 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

Curing it is much better than treating it, in any case. The big problem is getting people to stick to the diet, and not revert to their bad habits that caused the diabetes in the first place.

BTW,...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 7th 2017, 4:24 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

It's almost as though people haven't been saying 'I cut fast carbs from my diet, lost weight and am no longer diabetic' for decades.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 7th 2017, 2:44 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

A friend at university used to do that as a summer job. I had to settle for doing paperwork at an insurance company.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 6th 2017, 7:15 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

I wasn't talking about freezing my body. There are many groups currently working on ways to improve the body's ability to repair itself, and preventing the repair mechanisms from declining with age...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 5th 2017, 10:27 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

We're on our third day of some stew we made from beef, veggies and tomato soup (we just wanted something simple to make from the Campbell's Soup cookbook). Don't have the receipt handy, but I don't...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 5th 2017, 3:10 am
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

If you're 80 years old with the body of a 20 year old, you can keep working as long as there are jobs to do.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 1st 2017, 5:22 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

Whereas one of my friends died at 90 and was pee-d off that he'd seen so much change in his life but wouldn't get to see what was still coming.

Besides which, the part about all her friends having...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 30th 2017, 5:51 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

1. We're getting closer to viable rejuvenation technologies every day. We already have the healthiest, longest-live mice in history in research labs, and some of those treatments are soon to be...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 27th 2017, 7:04 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

Just wait until they all want rejuvenation treatment in a few years.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 27th 2017, 7:02 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 4,463
Posted By MarkG

Re: Rare diseases and cost of medications

One of my girlfriend's friends had his heart fail last year, and figured the province had spent over a million dollars on him before he left the hospital. Apparently no other province would have...
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