i read an article lately, dealing with anew field - epi-genetics, which said that even if we have mutations on our DNA, what is influence is the envirment. We have to suplly our body with good stuff and hope for good.
I reccomand you all to read the book "the biology of belief".

Some of the members of our PD forum have done the
23andMe service.

I just had peek at 23andme but cant see it for $149.00 anywhere, its says $299.oo on the splash page here

Thats a heck of increase.

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Looks like they raised the price. They were just granted a patent recently too.

It was $149.00 and I looked about 2 wks ago.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread170864.html

Read the whole thread... there is discussion.
23andme is now $99 US.

I can't afford it either right now and am trying to harass my sister into delving more deeply into her results, I will tell her about Snpedia, etc.

I found a nifty drug site called DrugBank, its technical but if you scroll down to enzymes it lists the cytochrome pathway for each drug. If you click on SNPs at the bottom of that part it will actually show polymorphisms....if you happen to have a gene sequencer in your kitchen you could test yourself! .

I've found some things that are suggestive even though I don't have hard data re: my genetics. It looks like there may have been a reason I took 2 prescription strength Prilosec and felt like I was poisoned.

Substrate=your med, what is being metabolized.
Inhibitor=lowers the amount of enzyme being produced to metabllize it.
Inducer=stimulates enzyme production.

http://www.drugbank.ca/

You have to have the generic name and sometimes know which form you have.

judi