news.cnet.com — Google co-founder Sergey Brin launched his personal blog on Thursday with some sobering news: he carries a particular genetic mutation that means he's much more likely than average to get Parkinson's disease.
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courtneygqSep 19, 2008
should be interesting to see what he writes...smart guy!detecting and possible prevention of diseases?...detection1)-"toe/finger-nail mail"- nails, like hair, blood, urine, saliva, and skin can all be provided by a patient and sent to a lab rather quickly and economically/efficiently today...with a nail clipper, a ziplock bag, an envelope, a stamp, a couple of dollars and a shipping company (FedEx,UPS,DHL,ect)...you can send a bio sample to a top notch research facility....finger/toe-nails like hair provide a bio time segmented snapsot of bodily functions/features that can reveal much information...if someone could create a centrallized lab that could open incoming "nail mails", and bio-analyze automatically...that would be something...simply send your nail/skin/blood/urine/hair samples through a shipping company to a robotically controlled warehouse that opens the packages and feeds them into machines that test for certain health signatures...results then automatically mailed back to subject and/or their doctor...the diagnosing and possible treatment might be better effectedprevention2)- this is a different idea....but i've often wondered the benefit of Big Pharma pills....some of them no doubt very good....what about multivitamins and other supplements...seems to be a big market for them...how effective are meds/vitamins/supplements?...compared with going to a dollar store and buying dozens of different kinds of spice?....what effect does mixing, say, lots of cloves + nutmeg + curry + dill + paprika + thyme + cinamon, ect in varying doses/degrees?....from personal experience i can say that big portions of lots of different kinds of spice do something....in the last year or so i've been mixing up different combinations of rice and spice to see effect on digestion, sweat smell, urine color, ect.....should see when i'm making soup/sauce...like a alchemist mixing all these spices......what "spice is right?":) .....for $50 you can buy 50 different kinds of spice- ground up plants, herbs, roots, nuts, seeds, shells....what do they individually do for you?...how about in conjunction?...how many other new and exotic plants could be ground up and sold for $1/jar and tested for possible prevention features?...could those features be diagnosed in type of research lab listed above?....could hundreds/thousands of people be convinced to participate in a rice-n-spice/spice-is-right field test to determine effect?....as in: " here's $50 worth of spice for free and a bag of rice...please eat different and/or routine rice-n-spice combinations every day for a few months and document realative ratios used....we'll take before, during and after bio-tests that can be "nail-mailed" to us and analyzed..." a couple of long-shot ideas that could be implemented quickly/cheaply (at least rice/spice experiment first) ....test for what diseases?...detect tell-tale bio time scale defects and effects through what methodology?
bxrwxrSep 19, 2008
Does that mean they'll change the name to G-gG-OOoGgg-LllEeE?
tycoondreamerSep 21, 2008
He needs to donate more than 1 million pounds. If I had 8.7 billion pounds and I have even just a 10% chance, I'd spend half my money trying to find a cure for this thing. Not only will he help himself and his mother, but all the other people in the world. It will also help genetic research in other fields.