Guest guest Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 Alon et al, I don't know how much anyone has written on this subject as I am woefully behind on reading posts. (Sad to say.) But, if anyone is interested in what Alon is talking about, Jeff Bland PhD. and the Institute for Functional Medicine is the go to guy. He is out there leading the way for people to understand that we can tailor our lifestyle and nutrition choices to our genotype. He does seminars around the country (through Metagenics) and you can buy the syllabus and tapes if you can't make it. Here's a link: http://www.functionalmedicine.org/ Nan Message: 1 Sun, 16 May 2004 10:09:27 -0500 " Alon Marcus " <alonmarcus Re: Chemical constituents of Chinese herbs? I am not an expert at pharmacology or molecular biology by any means, but from my studies it would seem that the 'key-lock-key' model of cellular receptor sites for drug molecules is a representational one, and doesn't completely reflect reality. >>>>Actually Zev its looking like it is a great model that is now being understood more and more. Because of genetic studies we are beginning to discover were dysfunction or more often error in proteins occur in particular diseases, and the hope is that designer drugs will be used to address the failure site only. The problem with many of today's drugs is that they affect large category of sites and therefore cause side-effects.While systems will always be important to prevent many diseases, many diseases look to have more genetic determinants than we ever thought. The promise of designer drugs or more likely different type of proteins is looking very hopeful. But only the future will tell Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 Alon is talking about, Jeff Bland PhD. and the Institute for Functional Medicine is the go to guy. >>>As far as functional med there are many others outthere. I studied mostly with Jonathon Write, Dorman, Sears, although it is usually not the key hole concepts i was talking about. These will come more from Pharmaceutical companies. The proteins must be very specific Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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