Professor Matthew Kiernan

So, that would put more emphasis on you to focus on all the other modifiable risk factors that you can control, the ones that we've already talked about.

A statistical higher risk.

Yeah.

It's not a death sentence.

No.

And these are based on... And that's a good point.

These are based on populations.

This is population health.

However, you can extrapolate the population to the best for you.

But of course, an N equals one, i.e.

yourself, it's not an exact science.

Yeah.

So, and as I understand it, it's something like...

Yes, and hardened.

That's exactly right.

Well, firstly, I'd say that focusing on a particular gene that might do one part of a function, that's great research, but it might not necessarily have any impact or translation into the humans that we are.

So I think that's the first thing.

You often see these great discoveries and, oh, we've been able to modify-

Yeah, it did on mice.

And, you know, in a lot of the conditions we're talking about, all of my studies have been negative because how good is that model for the human disease?