Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes
Darwinian medicine looks at the ecological and evolutionary roots of disease. A disease is an interaction between a genome and its biotic or abiotic environment and therefore a disease is essentially an ecological process. Good understanding of ecology and a Darwinian way of thinking can give us novel and useful perspectives on health and disease. If we understand the disease process better, we can certainly prevent, control as well as treat diseases in a better way. Although the thought that the origins of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) might lie in our hunter gatherer adaptations is not new, research over the last decade makes us rethink many of the classical concepts. Brain and behavior is increasingly being recognized as central to all the endocrine, metabolic and immunological changes that earmark type 2 diabetes and other metabolic syndrome disorders. A major change in paradigm appears to be on the horizon and the proposed book intends to speed up the paradigm shift by raising important questions, pointing out flaws and inadequacies in the prevalent paradigm and stimulating radical rethinking which would redirect and refine the line of research as well as bring some fundamental changes in drug discovery and clinical practice. aMenopause 6:174a178 Rosano GMC, Vitale C, Marazzi G, Volterrani M (2007) Menopause and cardiovascular disease: the evidence. ... Science 179:90a92 Cameron EZ (2004) Facultative adjustment of mammalian sex ratios in support of the Trivers-Willard ... follicle stimulating hormone receptor genes related to weaning-to-first service interval and litter traits in a swine population in northern Thailand.
| Title | : | Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes |
| Author | : | Milind Watve |
| Publisher | : | Springer Science & Business Media - 2012-08-30 |
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