Chapter 6: Hereditary Factors And Other Yet Undiscovered Factors.

Opinion: Hereditary factors seem to be infinitely glorified and promoted as the solution for most human maladies. We need to tone it down a bit.

The impact of these factors in a broad sense on the majority of humanity is limited except in the sense that all humans if exposed to certain factors and do the wrong thing healthwise will develop illnesses otherwise thought of as being highly influenced by heredity. An example of this is diabetes mellitus type 2 which is thought of as being influenced largely by heredity. To a certain degree that is true, with the following reservation. I see it as follows: any person with a family history of diabetes mellitus type 2 will develop the disease if that person follows an incorrect lifestyle, especially the diet. On the other hand that person won’t develop diabetes mellitus type 2 if that person follows a healthy lifestyle. This same premise applies to coronary artery disease (artery clogging with cholesterol), and essential hypertension (the common form of hypertension). In general any person even without a family history of above diseases can develop them by following an unhealthy lifestyle. More later.
There are some diseases and syndromes, which are very much governed by heredity such as hereditary hypercholesterolemia, hemophilia, some forms of cancer, etc. I was not talking about those in the preceding paragraph.
Intuitively I would say there are many more factors that we are still ignorant of such as: how important is it to expose oneself to the outside environment (open air, sunlight, open spaces…etc.)? How important is it to eat natural not tampered with foodstuffs devoid of hormones and preservatives? And so on.
Many more factors will be discovered over time, which will supersede what we know now. That I am sure of. I still believe though that the major factors are outlined in this overture.