The Personalized Medicine Revolution Quotes

“Maxwell’s equations also apply to the electrical currents that are used by the nerves in your body to make your hands move on demand or your heart beat or your brain think.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“treatment can be devised that will work for you. It is also driven by the conviction that signals of disease are apparent well before the disease appears (at which point it may be too late). We simply need to recognize what those signals are.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“In general, less than 50 percent of prescribed drugs actually help the patient they are prescribed for.7”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“So we need two things: first, we need ways of predicting and detecting disease well before it becomes life threatening; and second, we need medicines that work for you and your unique body.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“stimulation of our immune system in early life and the development of immunological problems later on has led to the “hygiene hypothesis”: that clean upbringings, relatively free of parasites and infectious agents, do not lead to development of a healthy immune system”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“It points to a possible problem in Western society: in our quest for cleanliness, we may have gone overboard. Many immunological and autoimmune disorders are much less common in the third world than they are in the Western world.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“children born in North America were born by C-section, and the incidence of allergies and asthma is far higher among those children than it is for vaginal-birth babies.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“There are thousands — probably more than 10,000 — proteins in your blood. Many of these originate from your brain, your heart, and other organs in your body, and measuring their levels in your blood can potentially diagnose the health of the organ they came from.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“or an “off” state (no current flows through), and are therefore ideally suited to storing information in the binary code (zeros or ones) that all computers use today.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“the universe . . . cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics . . . without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it;”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“Personalized medicine, which we will also call molecular medicine, is the antithesis of magical thinking. It is driven by the conviction that every ailment you have has a cause at the molecular level and that once you understand the cause of your disorder, an appropriate molecular-level”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“Twenty thousand herbal medicines are available in the United States, and these are used by more than 80 million”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“Medical progress to this point has been mainly based on advances that benefit the population as a whole rather than you as an individual.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“2 million North Americans are hospitalized because of adverse reactions to prescription drugs.2 The reason why drugs work in some people and cause bad reactions in others can usually be traced back to differences in genetic makeup.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

“But population-based approaches to maintain human health and life have begun to fail.”
― Pieter Cullis, The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever