"Cigarette smokers also seem to have a lower chance of developing Parkinson’s"
I realize it's not really a science article (it's even possible all the information on Parkinson's came directly from Brin himself), but they didn't say cigarette smoking staved off Parkinson's completely - they said it lowered the odds of it developing.
Thing is, the human body is so complicated, you can do all the right things and still come up on the short end. Load up on omega-3s and still get clogged arteries. Eat a well balanced diet and still get cancer.
Doing the "right" things can only improve the odds - something's going to get to you in the end.
"Thing is, the human body is so complicated, you can do all the right things and still come up on the short end"
It's complicated, but it's not magic. If you are doing things to avoid a problem and you get the problem, then you were not doing "all the right things" - your understanding was wrong.
> If you are doing things to avoid a problem and you get the problem, then you were not doing "all the right things" - your understanding was wrong.
Nope. "All the right things" isn't a guarantee and since you can't do anything about your dna, some folks are going to have risks no matter what they do.
For example, you can get unlucky wrt a mutation or a cosmic ray.
I realize it's not really a science article (it's even possible all the information on Parkinson's came directly from Brin himself), but they didn't say cigarette smoking staved off Parkinson's completely - they said it lowered the odds of it developing.
Thing is, the human body is so complicated, you can do all the right things and still come up on the short end. Load up on omega-3s and still get clogged arteries. Eat a well balanced diet and still get cancer.
Doing the "right" things can only improve the odds - something's going to get to you in the end.