Re: Larkin DNA test group
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Re: Larkin DNA test group
Angie DePriest-Hendrickson 9/22/07
My mother died of it at age 48, my hubby's nephew contracted it in youth. There has been no known of it in
his hubby's family, but perhaps Florence Brown Lawson had
it because she was an huge woman by her pictures. I don't
know about the Johnson side, I've been into this considerably in understanding it medically and the lineage
lines, of which I think an good many of them include blood
lines of the Native Americans, and I beleive they have an
intolerance to alchohol...seen by the massive problem of
both ailments in todays "reservations". There was an era when alcohol was safer to drink then the water, esp in summer and especially in the mid-west...where some wells went dry and were unsafe to use or else just wasn't enough water there for them to drink...see Lewis and Clark expedition on that part also, this was particularly around the 1700's to mid-1800's. As for Ireland, it has an reputation for it's Irish Whiskey. Just as Russia does with it's Vodka now. My mother's doctor told me that nearly everyone dies of type 2 diabetes if they live long enough and it doesn't affect the heart, before they get an chance to discover it...and treat it. He says that the first
organs to die in an person is sexual glands followed by
the thyroid and there in it affects the system in the
brain to not produce the "response" triggering Vit B. absorbtion and in the kicking in the Pancreas working properly...way prior to the insulin imbalance problems.
Of course most alcohol takes Vit. B from the body also,
lack of it is what causes one to get "drunk". But I am also finding out that amoung the Native Americans that they lived and ate in such an way as to increase their Vit. B. intake to almost four times what they can today. They used
ground up "Acorns" for their main "flour". We don't have
that these days, and didn't to much past the mid-1800's
once again...we tend to use wheat" flour instead.I beleive for them this has an great deal to do with their genetics as well as their povery they lived with on the early reservation days. I have been reading considerably about the "trading" that they did with the
Native Americans and introducing them to liquor for their
land deeds. The Shawnee "Prophet" is most likely the most
noted early alcoholic from this era and the trading. But
Col. Butler traded mostly exclusively in blankets, tobbaco
and alcohol with the Indians. Those around him got rich off
the distillery business also. I have also found out
on my mother's type 2 diabetes, it affects women more so then men, because of women's monthly menses and thier child bearing is an "stress" to their system, they need more Vit. B to cope, and that it affects more light haired and light
skinned people, so it's prime for the "Irish" I guess you
know...unless cutain-tailed early in life by diet and excerise..and abstaining from liquor...I recently am seeing where this same problem is beign diagnosis as "MS" because of its affect on the nervous system in the deplection of
the bodies Vit B... I would think with so many americans having it these days (in the millions) that they would find an cure for it readily any old day now.