CRI490H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychiatric Medication, Caffeine, Cardiovascular Disease
24 Jul 2018
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Drug policy lecture 3 caffeine: focus on social policy responses to drug use, epigenetics: study of changes in our genes that does not follow changes in our dna. Long term caffeine use affects gene expression, can effect estrogen production or even cancer growth. Caffeine changes the way our genes are expressed. Changes in gene function are heritable but not involve change in the dna sequence. Result from environmental stimulus or normal developed. Creating policy based on genetic traits would be necessarily discriminatory. Epigenetics meets the middle ground of nature vs nurture: history tea: Tea is the second most widely drunk beverage second to water. Long history of controlled production and taxation (boston tea party) Not subject to much strict regulation though purity and definition has been an issue. Likely to be more benefits than harms in terms of health (cardio vascular: coffee history: Third most consumed beverage in the world.
