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Hi i'm wanting to know if addiction can be genteic. I beleive that it is but i know others think otherwise, do you think that you could help me?

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Hello Elmo,

Yes addiction has a genetic component and several genes have been isolated contributing to addiction. But a genetic predisposition needs something to trigger it into an active form. Thus if we have a genetic predisposition to become an alcoholic, then drinking alcohol may be a trigger.

I believe that people who have a tendency to become addicted have also a diabetic gene.

But knowing about goes has little application to the treatment of addiction. Genes can be beaten with the right treatment.

‘Most addicted people have been found to be hypoglycemic (this can also be inherited) and the treatment for this is going on a hypoglycemic diet. Thus the first step in the treatment of addiction is going on a hypoglycemic diet.

The reasons for this is rather more complicated but it has bee explained at our web site.

Jurriaan Plesman, BA(Psych), Post Grad. Dip. Clin. Nutr.
For more articles see free web site at
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist

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I have a degree in Psychology from the Sydney University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition. I am also the author of “GETTING OFF THE HOOK” which deals with the nutritional and psychological treatment of personality disorders. It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. I am interested in the relationship between nutrition and behaviour, and as a Probation ans Parole Officer facilitated groups for offenders, many of whom were alcoholics and drug addicts, sex offenders or compulsive gamblers, as well as the whole gamut of “personality disorders”. I am also the ex-editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia Newsletter, a quarterly publication dealing with hypoglycemia and related health problems. Its web site, together with a shortened course of PSYCHOTHERAPY can be visited at: http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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Nutritional Psychotherapist

Organizations
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

Publications
GETTING OFF THE HOOK
which is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. Various articles in Hypoglycemic Health Association Newsletter

Education/Credentials
BA(Psych) (Sydney University) Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr (International Academy of Nutrition)

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