disease caused by poor nutrition could stem from bad genes. He characterized this as genetotrophic disease, in which a person’s DNA could thwart the uptake of necessary nutrients; among the diseases that could spring from genes in this way was alcoholism, he wrote for the journal Nutrition Reviews. He cited research involving animals in which the amount of alcohol consumed soared when they lacked certain nutrients, and all but stopped when the nutrients were restored. That became relevant to genetics when it became clear that our ability to absorb nutrients could be hindered by our DNA.
