Polygenic Risk Scores: Seeing Disease Risk Before Disease Begins

The genetic tree on the horizon - Polygenic Risk Scores: Seeing Disease Risk Before Disease Begins

For most of modern medicine, we have tried to predict disease by measuring what is happeningin the body today. Blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, weight, family history, and age allhelp doctors estimate future risk. But there is another source of information that exists long before most of these measurements change: Our DNA. The rise of … Read more

Before Disease: A Perspective on the True Origin of Root Cause Medicine.

before disease genetic tree - Christopher Lippe blog

Root cause medicine, as practiced across many disciplines of healthcare, has built its authority on a promise: to look past the symptom and treat the source. In practice, however, “root cause” has quietly narrowed into a search for the first biological mechanism, such as inflammation, hormonal imbalance, gut dysbiosis, spinal misalignment, or adrenal dysfunction. These … Read more