What are some of the new medical treatments that you foresee coming along in the near future?
Dr. Weil: First of all, there are all the high-tech ones, which are great. I think these are fabulous possibilities. Now, whether they will become practical realities or not, I don’t know. I would say that a huge area is genomic medicine—the possibility of being able to individualize treatment to patients, including pharmaceutical drug treatment. Just as an example, there’s a lot controversy now about soy and its ability to protect from breast cancer. Some of this seems to have to do with how women metabolize soy. Some of them are able to metabolize one of the phytoestrogens of soy to a protective compound and other women are not. If you could identify those women who could do it, then those are the ones you would want to get to eat soy regularly. The other ones, maybe not. With cigarettes there are a lot of people, especially Asians, who are able to smoke like chimneys all their life and have no increased risk of lung cancer. They have different enzyme systems. It would be nice to ide
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