Personalized Medicine Flashcards
Why/how would a personalized medicine approach benefit EAI patients?
- Potentially lower costs for treatments
- More efficient diagnoses
- Could allow for more proactive/preventative treatments
What are some barriers/challenges to personalized medicine?
- Time required with patients fact to face
- Cost-prohibitive (insurance)
- Research funding shift
- Health disparities/access to care
- No data interpretation system
- Practitioner training needs
- Drug development/pharma companies
What/who is needed for a multidisciplinary approach toward research and treatment development?
Physicians and epidemiologists collaborating and the integration of bioinformatics and network/systems medicine
The determinants of a phenotype depends on exposure to environmental stress. (Agusti et al, 2014)
True
Barriers to personalized medicine include: (Agusti et al, 2014)
- Complexity of diverse environmental exposures and biological systems
- Privacy issues related to individual -omics data
- Cost of tailored treatments
Fibromyalgia symptoms may include: (Parkitny and Younger, 2017)
- Gastrointestinal discomfort
- Proalgesic (pain-causing) shift in responses to stimuli
- Mood dysregulation
- Fatigue
- Cognitive problems
Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and chronic viral infections share what common trait? (Nathan, Toxic)
All are linked to inflammation
Which of the following are holistic options for promoting detoxification? (Nathan, Toxic)
- The PK protocol
- Avoiding food triggers
- Hydration
- Supporting the gut biome
- Sleep
What is the PK protocol?
The Patricia Kane protocol (PK protocol) is an experimental treatment for neurological disease involving intravenous infusion of phospholipids and methylation factors, along with dietary changes and supplements
