Good genes or bad genes: Is the game of life ever fair?
Published: 8 April 2006
Category: Bisphenol A (BPA), Cancer link & plastic packaging, Hormonal Changes, Packaging CONCERNS
The American Prospect Online reports on the link between diseases and genes, and, the luck of the draw. According to the article, “Genes are what we got from our parents. If we’re lucky, we get the good genes, and that means at least one health condition that won’t burden us in life, compound the toll of growing old, or hurry us toward the grave. If we aren’t lucky, well then, who ever said life is fair?”
The article continues by discussing bisphenol A and its plausible effects on the human body, citing research findings from “reduced sperm count to spontaneous miscarriages; from prostate and breast cancers to degenerative brain diseases; from attention deficit disorders to obesity and insulin resistance, which links it to Type 2 diabetes.”
According to research, BPA alters the behavior of over 200 genes, more than one percent of all human genes, “genes involved with how cells multiply, how stem cells become more specialized, how metabolism is regulated, and how the brain gets wired as a fetus grows.”