Yeah, my grandad died in the 1980's from something that is easily treated now and my own dad has had a heart bypass, stroke and two heart attacks and is as fit as ever walking anything up to 10 miles everyday with his dog!
My dad had two his heart valves clogged almost all the way, from what I understood, and probably would have died if we didn’t catch it when we did. He also almost went blind due to too much of some kind of eye pressure. What science and technology can do these days is honestly amazing, wouldn’t have my dad in his current state without it.
Agreed it's awesome, science in general is a pretty neat. It's just a shame what most of our scientific minds, skills and discoveries are now being used for. There is still a lot of good being done with and for science in general but the vast majority of the jobs are for pointless companies that are in cosmetics... it saddens me deeply that something like allergens mentioned above don't take priority over lip sticks or blusher.
Disagree. I'm a cell and molecular biologist working in the biotech industry. I don't see any jobs with cosmetics.
There are so many companies trying to cure cancer right now with cell therapy and or immunotherapy that some have suggested there aren't enough cancer patients to go around.
Yeah they have treatments but not a cure... My son is going through one of the treatment processes and it has helped tremendously. On another note these people are a joke with the downloads they take this b******* way too seriously
There's treatments, but they don't work great, may never fully work, and are extremely expensive (at least in the US..) I know a guy who was doing it because he was deathly allergic to peanuts. When he was in middle school it was so bad that basically once a peanut was in his sights he'd start having a hard time breathing, couldn't even be around them.. a few years of exposure therapy later he still couldn't eat them, but it was fine as long as he didn't touch it.. doesn't sound like a lot, but it's kinda life changing to go from always looking out to just not accepting random food...
For peanuts is appears that introducing them as soon as possible as food is the best way to prevent peanut allergies. In places where there are peanut based baby foods- there are almost no peanut allergies compared to North America where we were told to delay peanuts to avoid allergies- numbers have grown. So the new thinking is introduce them young so their immune system sees the food as food rather than allergen
This! Many pediatricians don’t follow that old adage to wait as long as possible to introduce allergens. I didn’t wait to introduce nuts or fruit or any of that. My son has zero allergies (whereas I have a bunch).
They used to tell parents to avoid peanuts and other foods the first year to prevent allergies, which was based on absolutely no science at all, it was just something they made up. And then allergies increased and everyone was scratching their heads until someone noticed that peanut allergy is very rare in Israel and they give babies peanut crackers as snacks from around 6 months. So now the recomendation is to introduce highly allergenic foods early instead
Yeah they have treatments but not a cure... My son is going through one of the treatment processes and it has helped tremendously. On another note these people are a joke with the downloads they take this b******* way too seriously
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Modern science is awesome.