Table Of ContentIntroduction Part One: How Family Trees are Helping People 1. How a Family Tree Solved a Mystery 2. A Crash Course in Genetics 3. When the Diagnosis is in Doubt, Consult Your Family Tree 4. How Your Family Tree Can Suggest the Right Treatment 5. Foretell the Future With Your Family Tree Part Two: Your Family Tree: How to Compile It and What It Can Tell You 6. How to Draw Up Your Family Tree 7. From Colds to Cancer: New Protection from Your Family Tree 8. Fight Dementia with Your Family Tree 9. Your Family Tree: A New Ally Against Heart Attacks and Strokes 10. Compile Your Family Tree and Stay Sane 11. How to Present Your Family Tree to Your Doctor Part Three: The Big Mysteries: New Clues from Family Trees 12. Down's Syndrome and Other Illnesses: Some Significant Family Trees 13. Cures for Incurable Illnesses, Through Family Trees? 14. Help for the Homeless and Hope for the Helpless General Appendixes A. Illness, categorized for family trees B. Symptoms and signs C. Congenital Defects D. Phenotype/physical characteristics E. Sociological/epidemiological data F. Questionnaire Dietary Recommendation Appendices G. Keep smiling--help for your mood, etc. H. Stay alive--help for the vessels to your brain and heart I. Don't seize up--help for your joints and painful limbs J. Don't let lupus get you K. Keep smiling from the wheelchair--Synovitis/rheumatoid arthritis References Index
SynopsisWhat do cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, lupus, celiac sprue, depression, cystic fibrosis, and dozens of other conditions have in common? First, they all express genetic predispositions that can be traced within family genealogies. Second, they usually can be positively affected by nutritional measures--measures that are based on an understanding of who is at risk, what dietary and environmental factors are likely to trigger the conditions, and what nutrients can help to fortify the immune system against the onset of disease. Trace Your Genes to Health offers hope to millions, first through its comprehensive approach to understanding medical genetics, and then through dietary and nutritional protocols that can either prevent common conditions from occurring, or successfully manage them once they appear.