Peter Attia· MD
and it is important to know those in my opinion though I will certainly find myself arguing this point with physicians who say why the hell would you ever want a patient to know that there's nothing you can do about it because of course this gene is probably the second strongest gene to predict Alzheimer's disease by magnitude but the strongest by far by frequency in other words it's the one that matters more at the population level I would agree with the logic of said physicians if I felt that there was nothing one could do to impact their chances of Alzheimer's disease obviously I think that that's sort of nonsense you and I and Dan co-authored a paper with Richard Isaacson at Cornell and a few of his colleagues on Alzheimer's prevention so we're obviously in the camp that thinks Alzheimer's disease is at least somewhat if not significantly preventable and therefore genotyping gives us great insight furthermore a pony genotype gives enormous insight into cardiovascular risk something that we probably ought to do a dedicated discussion around a Poe be a and a Bowie just straight up a Potok I'd like to talk more about that now but it's probably irrelevant