Thursday, November 17, 2011

Dopamine rules us all

Gene Impedes Recovery from Alcoholism, Swedish Research Finds

Researchers in the longitudinal project Göteborg Alcohol Research Project (GARP) have been investigating the dopamine D2 receptor gene and found that a variant of this gene is overrepresented in people with severe alcohol dependency, and that it is linked to a number of different negative consequences that can be of vital significance to the person affected.
"Our research shows that alcohol-dependent individuals, who are also carriers of this gene variant, run 10 times the risk of dying prematurely, compared with the average population," says Claudia Fahlke, a representative from the research team.
In a study published recently in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism (issue 46), the research team shows that this gene variant also appears to be associated with a higher tendency among these individuals to suffer a relapse, even if they have undergone treatment for their alcohol dependency.

The autoimmune streptococcal antibodies that I believe cause much of mental illness-
BIND TO D2 RECEPTORS AND STIMULATE THEIR PRODUCTION.

Infection is why abstaining from alcohol does not solve the problem...
And why we live fast and die young.