WHAT is the study of Molecular Medicine? By Prof Franco Cavaleri BSc NB Ph.D.c; Mr IFBB North America. At our amazing convention in Florida a few weeks ago I was asked many times what the study of Molecular Medicine involved. I am frequently asked to discuss the Ocean Avenue WAV Nutrition research I am involved in and how it relates to the research I do at the University of British Columbia. In the following description I will attempt to convey an understanding of the scope of molecular medicine, an exciting discipline that is opening new clear windows in to disease pathology and disease correction and prevention. My work and research at UBC is leading to my specialization in this field positioning us at the forefront of health and disease research worldwide. Our Ocean Avenue WAV Nutrition health and performance products are modeled based on this new age medicine. WHAT is the study of Molecular Medicine? Molecular Medicine strives to understand normal body functioning and disease pathogenesis at the molecular level – the cellular level where disease roots. This research is the interface between basic biomedical science and clinical medicine bridging the symptoms and phenotypic clues that the medical doctor searches for to probe into disease diagnosis but follows these clues to their biochemical and genetic roots. It is the study of molecular activity that stems from genetic response to environment and lifestyle (epigenetics), nutrition (nutrigenomics) and cellular stress that leads to the symptom and diseased state. Molecular medicine is a broad field, where physical, chemical, biological and medical techniques are used to describe molecular structures and mechanisms, identify fundamental molecular and genetic errors of disease, and to develop molecular interventions to correct them. It includes a thorough study of pharmaceuticals and their activity at the genomic and proteomic level in the cell. It includes the study of kinases now linked to 400 human diseases – a groundbreaking medical focus world-wide. These kinases (molecular signalling agents) can be modified to change how environment, lifestyle and nutrition influence genes. We can also modify kinase activity to override genetic errors so that genetically founded disease can be superseded with a healthier signalling response. Genetically scripted diseases, in other words, can be overridden with an understanding and application of the arsenal that stems from this discipline. The molecular medicine perspective emphasizes cellular and molecular phenomena and interventions rather than the previous conceptual and observational focus on patients and their organs. Molecular medicine is a new scientific discipline combining contemporary medical studies with the field of biochemistry, genetics, kineome and proteomics. Specialization by the Molecular medical Doctor requires a deep understanding of health and disease trends, genetics, pharmacology, disease pathogenesis, cellular biochemistry and modern medicine merging these faculties into a continuous understanding of the flow of diseased or healthy chemistry that stems from genetic activity and rises to the surface as health or disease - the application of genetic or DNA-based knowledge to the modern practice of medicine. Molecular medicine is the discipline that will change the way medicine is viewed and practiced. At present only a handful of universities offer this medical specialization world wide – University of British Columbia is known to be a world leader in the faculty of medicine which includes the discipline of molecular medicine.
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