Monday, August 17, 2015

DHEA experiment

Currently there are nations and other territories which are experiencing hunger, starvation,  various epidemics, and  disasters like tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricane where nutrition may be  compromised . During the past 6 months I gave a keynote presentation to 3 different groups stressing the importance of nutrition outlining  that the nutritional  status of  individual's affects their immune system,  the levels of their stress hormones like cortisol,  DHEA, and  sex hormones like testosterone, estrogens, etc. and   play  significant roles in the individual's responses to fight infections, as well as in social behaviour and mental functioning.
The usual responses to such disasters from unaffected nations is to send food, money, and other resources as aid. I feel that medical biochemical scientists should also visit such areas together with their mobile laboratories to collect informations on the status of various hematological,   biological , and biochemical status of the components such as I have listed above.If the affected countries don't have such professional scientist.  Because nutrition  also plays a significant role in epigenesis , this latter phenomena such data might shed some light of how epigenesis  plays a role in evolution
Unfortunately for past disasters scientists have already  missed the opportunity to do such studies - One such disaster of the last century which comes to mind is  the Holodomor . This genocide was  man made and orchestrated by Stalin during the 1932-1933 winter in Ukraine. Historians estimated that  at the height of this famine over 25,000 were dying daily-with the total death tole exceeding 3 million during this short period.
 In the future when  conferences  marking anniversaries of such historic events are held not only should politicians but also biochemists and other research scientists should participate  presenting  scientific data  on the role that nutrition deficiency  may  play- data which  might even provide  for   the development of new diagnostic tools in Medicine  and /or treatment benefits.

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