For example, during pregnancy African Americans are said to have a higher chance of getting preeclampsia or gestational diabetes. Genetically, what’s happening here?
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Things like Sickle Cell was the body’s blood trying to find its own way to fight malaria I believe. It became so prevalent that now even African Americans who’s never even been anywhere near Africa still suffer. Prodigy from Mobb Deep wrote one of the best albums ever, HNIC, and damn.. his struggles with SC were brutal. Had him strung out on morphine by 12 and treating him like a junky by like 17.
But that’s only one example.. and o can’t think of other serious ones. Lactose intolerance in Southeast Asians is odd.. but explains the lack of dairy in most of the food.
Things like Sickle Cell was the body’s blood trying to find its own way to fight malaria I believe. It became so prevalent that now even African Americans who’s never even been anywhere near Africa still suffer. Prodigy from Mobb Deep wrote one of the best albums ever, HNIC, and damn.. his struggles with SC were brutal. Had him strung out on morphine by 12 and treating him like a junky by like 17.
But that’s only one example.. and o can’t think of other serious ones. Lactose intolerance in Southeast Asians is odd.. but explains the lack of dairy in most of the food.
For Black maternal health specifically, there’s a growing acceptance of a theory called “weathering,” which essentially posits that the stress of living under systemic racism makes Black folks age faster. One bit of evidence supporting this is that among teen mothers there are not wide disparities between Black and white mothers, but there are among older mothers because those Black women have had much more time to be negatively effected by racism.
The simplest explanation is that for most of human history, populations have been geographically restricted. Certain mutations persist because reproduction happens only within a population instead of between populations. And that happens for like hundreds of generations.
For some things, it’s cultural practices. Ex. Japanese people tend to get more throat cancer because they eat a ton more grilled food. Greater chance of carcinogens from them. Etc.
Things like Sickle Cell was the body’s blood trying to find its own way to fight malaria I believe. It became so prevalent that now even African Americans who’s never even been anywhere near Africa still suffer. Prodigy from Mobb Deep wrote one of the best albums ever, HNIC, and damn.. his struggles with SC were brutal. Had him strung out on morphine by 12 and treating him like a junky by like 17.
But that’s only one example.. and o can’t think of other serious ones. Lactose intolerance in Southeast Asians is odd.. but explains the lack of dairy in most of the food.
For Black maternal health specifically, there’s a growing acceptance of a theory called “weathering,” which essentially posits that the stress of living under systemic racism makes Black folks age faster. One bit of evidence supporting this is that among teen mothers there are not wide disparities between Black and white mothers, but there are among older mothers because those Black women have had much more time to be negatively effected by racism.
For Black maternal health specifically, there’s a growing acceptance of a theory called “weathering,” which essentially posits that the stress of living under systemic racism makes Black folks age faster. One bit of evidence supporting this is that among teen mothers there are not wide disparities between Black and white mothers, but there are among older mothers because those Black women have had much more time to be negatively effected by racism.
The simplest explanation is that for most of human history, populations have been geographically restricted. Certain mutations persist because reproduction happens only within a population instead of between populations. And that happens for like hundreds of generations.
For some things, it’s cultural practices. Ex. Japanese people tend to get more throat cancer because they eat a ton more grilled food. Greater chance of carcinogens from them. Etc.
The simplest explanation is that for most of human history, populations have been geographically restricted. Certain mutations persist because reproduction happens only within a population instead of between populations. And that happens for like hundreds of generations.
For some things, it’s cultural practices. Ex. Japanese people tend to get more throat cancer because they eat a ton more grilled food. Greater chance of carcinogens from them. Etc.
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