After a century of putting genetics on a pedestal, the geneticists have some surprising news for us: The vast majority of chronic disease isn’t caused by our genes. “The Human Genome Project was a $3 billion investment, and what did we find out?” says Thomas Hartung, a toxicologist at Johns Hopkins. “Five percent of all disease is purely genetic.... See more
1) Why are humans across the globe so sick with chronic diseases?
So we are on the same page, here are a few chronic diseases that are rampant across industrialized nations: