Genes for Several Common Diseases Found

The study missed the genes for madness. But don't worry, those will be found too. Then maybe people like TomTom can look forward to a cure. Hopefully.

I really suggest when you make stupid comments about genes not being the problem that you don't base your evidence on a single account of an individual being "cured" by some wholistic mean. I'm a type 1 diabetic and I can guarantee you that no suppliment will ever cure me. There has been research into different treatments, like islet cell transplant, but these are controversial and mostly don't work (because the immune system still kills off the new islet cells). Other work has been done, as reported on technology review, by injecting the pancreatic nerves with capsaisin, which overloads the nerves and resets them. In mice this "cures" them temporarily of Diabetes, but no work has been done on humans yet.

People have said many things about suppliments and foods, like the Kombucha mushroom tea cures, but none of these "cures" have ever been proven to work on everyone. There is no panacea, even in medicine.

Please stop trying to be smart and disproving real research with your tales of single individuals being miraculously cured. Next we'll start thinking we can have a hand put to our head, say "Praise Jesus," and be cured of our diseases as we fall to the ground!

You say "Why don't you do some research for yourself!  I have done mine," but you don't realize why diseases like coronary heart disease and the likes were so rare in the past. Let's think logically about this instead of being sensationalistic - in the 1900's there was not a need to categorize why people over the age of 70 died, they just got old and their bodies shut down. Only the relatively young would have had some sort of autopsy if they lived in a city or near a hospital. Since most of the country was farm land and the nearest cities to people were many miles away this process would not happen very often. Some households probably buried their own family members with very little being said to a doctor.

As a result of your insistence to do my own research, I have.

What you said:
"Type 1 has been cured by vanadium as well, reported by a medicinal school in British Columbia."

What is actually reported:
"Early studies showed that vanadium normalized blood glucose levels in animals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. A recent study found that when people with diabetes were given vanadium, they developed a modest increase in insulin sensitivity and were able to decrease their insulin requirements." (http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/alternativetherapies/)

A normalization and increased sensitivity is not a cure, it is essentially the same effect that Aspirin has on a Diabetic - to help regulate blood sugars.

Also, your comment about Crohn's disease is absolutely incorrect.

What you said:
"Crohn's disease is an emotional disease and has been cured with hypnosis."

What is actually true:
"For years, many people have argued that forms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, including Crohn’s Disease, is caused by emotional stress, tension, and anxiety; this, however, is completely inaccurate. While there may be links to emotional stress and Crohn’s Disease, it is not a cause of the disorder." (http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-20-2006-86820.asp)

To counter one more comment - "Genes are expressed in regard to environment conditions" - this is true, as it was reported on TR, but it is a function of a defense mechanism to protect the cells. Sometimes these defenses, if triggered in the right pattern can encode to allow a disease to penetrate, but humans have evolved switches which regulate what happens when we get into various environmental conditions. Why else can we handle Ethyl Alcohol but worms dissolve completely in it?

Please, TomTom, when you blast people for not doing their research, can you at least do your own and not base your opinion on sensational reports from holistic medical journals that don't do real research?

They didn't sequence the whole genomes, only scanned for SNPs using microarrays.