Here is the full press release on the results on the recent study which establishes the relation between Body compositions(Prakriti) and genetic makeup. This is one of the corner stones of Ayurveda.
A landmark study, the first of its kind in the world, finds links between Prakriti, a fundamental principle of personalized medicine of Ayurveda, and modern genomics for development of predictive and personalized medicine. The study reveals that it is possible to identify groups within normal individuals of the populations, which could be predisposed to certain kind of diseases, and also might respond differently to drugs. Such integration of the principles of Ayurveda with genomics, appropriately termed as Ayurgenomics by the authors, holds great potential and promise for future predictive and personalized medicine at an affordable cost.
For the first time it has been demonstrated that normal individuals within the same ethnic population, clustered on the basis of clinical criteria described in Ayurveda, show variations in the basal levels of blood parameters used in routine for diagnostic purposes, as well as in basal levels of expression of genes. Read the Full press release here:[Ayurgenomics: CSIR study establishes links between Ayurveda & Modern Science for Predictive & Personalized Medicine ]
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This study would be first steping stone in developing our understanding towards Ayurveda,the unique integral health Science system,& further these kind of study will explore the potientals documented the authantic texts of ayurveda.
Comment by Dr. Ramniwas Prasher, MD[Ayurveda] — September 24, 2008 @ 7:43 am