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“Epigenetic researchers study how our own genes react to our behavior, and they¡¯ve found that just about everything we eat, think, breathe, or do can, directly or indirectly, trickle down to touch the gene and affect its performance in some way.”
― Catherine Shanahan, Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

“When I interviewed with the Chief of Family Medicine at a large medical corporation on the West Coast, he explained that, since he was part of a team of people who arranged for pharmaceutical companies to issue cash grants, he was in a position to offer me a particularly enticing salary. ¡°What are the grants for?¡± I asked. ¡°We have a quality improvement program that tracks physician prescribing patterns. We call it ¡®quality¡¯ but it¡¯s really about money.¡± And that¡¯s all it¡¯s about. It works like this. In his organization, any patient with LDL cholesterol over 100 is put on a cholesterol-lowering medication. Any person with a blood pressure higher than 140/90 is put on a blood pressure medication. Any person with ¡°low bone density¡± is put on a bone-remodeling inhibitor. And so on. The doctors who prescribe the most get big bonuses. Those who prescribe the least get fired. With a hint of incredulousness in his voice, he explained, ¡°So far, every time we¡¯ve asked for funding for our program, the drug companies give it to us.¡± If this is where healthcare is headed, then these hybrid physicians-executives will instinctively turn their gaze to our children and invent more creative methods to bulldoze an entire generation into the bottomless pit of chronic disease.”
― Catherine Shanahan, Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food