Prevention or precaution?

Precautionary medicine is a bit different from prevention. Precaution means that you investigate to see if everything is in order. That’s not the same as prevention. Prevention comes from the Latin word meaning “to come ahead of”, i.e. anticipating a danger. This active approach is becoming more fashionable, and not just because we at Salvagene recommend it. There have recently been some persuasive studies, including one from Norfolk in the UK. This showed that a few simple preventive measures can put ten additional years on the average person’s life. These include: - not smoking; - taking regular exercise; - taking vitamin C supplements; - reducing alcohol consumption to under 120 grams per week. We adapt these and other measures to your individual genetic makeup and are optimistic that we can even exceed these extra ten years by performing a gene analysis.