New Blood test supposed to determine your lifespan
 

This "new" test is getting a bit of airtime over here , found this link about it the Daily Telegraph (UK London) and its not far from the 'debunked' Science of Eugenics

New £435 blood 'death test will prove a person's longevity' - Telegraph

think this raises lots of questions and needs to be sorted sooner rather than later , not so much for folks like me but for the young ,are the powers that be going to be able to decide if its cost effective to offer various costly health treatments or a decent education to the ones who have the wrong chromosones (sp?), not to mention life insurance and lots of other stuff .
Understand Science has to progress , and lots of good things have been found by unpalatable research ... But this , I'm not so sure about :confused: :confused:

Anyone care to comment on the subject

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An expensive rip off!
I consider environmental factors have a greater effect than genes in determining life expectancy.

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pay for blood test then walk out of testing center with bit of paper saying your gonna live to 95 years of age and get hit by a bus :D

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There are some people who believe everything that a medico tells them.
As the year of death approaches they will get sick i.e. they will make sure that -
'the doctor is always right':rolleyes:

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I can't see there being many takers for this expensive blood test........I was going to say exactly the same thing that Accyman has observed....you could spend all that money having the test, and then die in other circumstances.

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That is a bit like how voodoo works.

If you tell someone they are going to die...you will always be right!

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Exactly what crossed my mind;)

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how very morbid, nothing like waiting for your number to be up! Don't think it will be available in Tesco pharmacy any time soon.......tho you never can tell!:rolleyes:

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What a load of rubbish...reading your future from tea cups went out of fashion with the invention of teabags... now we have some business minded charlatans wanting to charge £435 for the same old kak... and they call this progress? :D

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Ya Margaret I have a blood test every fortnight, which intimates that I could, at least, have another two weeks:D

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Mine are every six months.:tongueout:D:D

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Thats because they only get ale when they take your samples Beni:p:p:p:D:D

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Yes, but yours are not the ones you have to pay for John:)....or at least I hope they aren't.

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I have had blood tests a few years ago.
The only thing wrong with me was said to be 'high cholesterol'.
My research on the web has convinced me that there is nothing ominous about having 'high cholesterol'.

When it comes to the crunch, many of these tests are excuses to convince you that you need expensive drugs, or to monitor the effects of drugs already prescribed.

Blood tests are a useful tool, as long as you don't just accept a doc's interpretation of them.

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PS -
A few months ago I paid £55 for a hair mineral analysis.(by post direct to a lab)
I did it to decide whether my detox methods had succeeded in ridding me of heavy metals.
I had symptoms of mercury poisoning following that year in which my (mercury amalgam filled) teeth were extracted one after another.
No such test is available on the NHS, and most conventional docs would not know what the test results indicate.

Monitor your own health - you happen to be the person who knows your body best
...and the only one who really cares enough to put things right.

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Had they succeeded margaret?

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Yes - thanks for your concern - I'm free of all heavy metal toxicity.

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then thats £55 well spent in my book.:)

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I've been free of my marbles for some years now.:hehetable

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Dear Doctor Maggie,

Do you think I should stop taking my statins then?
As it's usually ones Doctor who orders blood tests and receives the results thereof, whose interpretation do you think we should ask for?

Yours faithfully,

Worried of Hyndburn.

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Dear Doctor Maggie,

Do you think I should stop taking my statins then?
As it's usually ones Doctor who orders blood tests and receives the results thereof, whose interpretation do you think we should ask for?

Yours faithfully,

Worried of Hyndburn.

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Double post. Accyweb database suffered an error and posted twice.

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You have the internet access just as I do.
Look, and decide after you have looked.;)

Surprisingly enough, after years of docs trying to get everyone over 55 on statins, even the mainstream media are reporting serious doubts.

Having muscle weakness and loss of short term memory are you?:D


You could start your exploration here
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cho..._en-GB___GB343
http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surg...rticles/36.htm

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PS -IF you decide to stop taking them, you will need to WEAN yourself off them -
...............your decision - I know my body, know nothing about yours:D

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Margaret there's no such thing as a free lunch:rolleyes:

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Don't we know it Beni:D:D:p

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I must be the lucky one then Margaret, I've never had statins and I'm nearly 65:Banane45:

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Better Statins n what you got mate.;)

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Shushhhhhh cashy I'm trying to forget:D

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Best advice there is. No good relying on anybody else. Conventional doctors only know the half of it and alternative ones as well. How often has your GP asked you about exercise or what food you eat? The answer is NEVER for me. And yet food is the drug we all take most of all and exercise is so important. How often has your GP offered you an allergy test? NEVER for me. And yet for me personally, I had one up Gorse Rd in Blackburn years ago which sorted me out very quickly. When doctors or alternatives don't work, we just have to take Margaret's advice.

The new blood test sounds like another gimmick to me, another way of making money out of the vulnerable.

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My husband was on statins for a number of years, he started having memory problems and also muscle pains in his arms and chest......I told him that this was due to him being on Simvastatin(the cheapest of the statins, and also the one that needs a bigger dose to be effective).......the muscle weakness is permanent, nothing can be done to reverse the effects.......the memory loss, that too, seems to be permanent

Our brains need cholesterol to function normally, our muscles too, and our liver makes what our individual body needs........the 'one size fits all' medicine is fatally flawed.

For myself, I would never take statins....that is my choice.

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My wife and I were put on statins, even though our cholesterol levels were normal to low.After a few months she started to have pain in her right arm which built up over a period until she was in severe pain most of the time. Couldn't use her arm! Different doctors gave her different pills, sent her for physio- no relief.
For some reason I read up the Simvastatin leaflet-it mentions muscle pain among many other possible side effects! She went back to the doctors and asked about this-'Oh, yes, it could be that, stop taking them.' Within two days the pain was easing, after one week it had gone! It has never troubled her since.As MargaretR says, don't always leave it to the doctors, check it out yourself!
I stopped taking them as well.

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I think everybody should check out their own meds, I am probably on more prescribed drugs than most people, but I know exactly what there purpose is and any side effects that can occur, another thing I'm keen on is interaction with other drugs, When I take some anti bios I have to reduce the strength of a couple of other drugs because there strength is increased by interaction, but I honestly believe I wouldn't be here today without the medication I'm on, as I've said before complimentary medicines are fine, but I have yet to come across anything which works to subside a full blown asthma attack from the complementary range

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An effect of statins which does not show in side effects, is depletion of your body's production of a vital substance - Co-enzyme Q10(Ubiquinol).
To learn what vital importance this substance performs -
Statins Inhibit Coenzyme Q10 Synthesis.
It naturally protects you against heart disease.

So the statins which supposedly:rolleyes: protect you against heart disease can be increasing your risk of it:eek: