Thread by @jaderesearch

@JennMcClellanVA @VASenateDems you have lost all @reason & disregard #Science Racism is serious, impacting many areas of life for black people. But racism is NOT the cause of EVERY problem, health or other, in black people's lives. That is disempowering victim consciousness.

Actually, though racism impacts access to insurance & care, there are known genetic factors that have direct impact on specific diseases, true for all different racial & ethnic groups. @VASenateDems @JennMcClellanVA
More data on AfricanAm Disparities. I'll send to you

3/ While there's no single gene for race & we are all the human race, descended from a primordial mother Eve (yes mitochondrial Eve is a fact), an Ethiopian woman & her sisters who left Africa thousands of yrs ago. @VaSenateDems @JennMcClellanVA @vademocrats

@VASenateDems @JennMcClellanVA @vademocrats 4/ Human genome was completed 20 yrs ago but role of #GeneNetworks only about 12 yrs ago. They are important in disease processes. The #GeneNetwork for Hormone D (it's not a vitamin, but the hormone regulating immune system) is different for African Americans, producing less D.

5/ Low D levels mean weaker immune system, but D also controls mineral metabolism, bone, etc, & is a readon for kidney disease in African Americans & would also influence blood pressure. Low D & genetic factors also relate to higher colon cancer rates, & a vicious breast cancer.

So you will see the actual #Science references, the peer reviewed #Science on African American health disparities, I'll attach the list of references I found doing a literature search on @NLM_NIH #PubMed. @JennMcClellanVA @VaSenateDems

Page 2 AfrAm health disparities differences in D levels impact immune system & other diseases, making these issues to be alert for in HC for the AA community. @VCUMassey Dr. Wynne has health care outreach to AfrAm men to screen for these risk factors.

8/ It's important to accurately define problems in order to solve them. While racism is a fact, it is not the cause of all health disparities for African Americans. In the Bible, you must name a demon to cast it out. So we must precisely define problems to solve them.@vademocrats

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Since I got all my DNA data plus research on familial diseases, & learned about precision medicine, which I showed to you once @JennMcClellanVA, I've learned every illness except a broken foot is a consequence of my DNA. #FactsMatter They help us SOLVE problems not avoid them.