So okay, I'ma nerd!!! And I still love me!!!
Anyhoo, I have to start my research on my biological system that I study...
Since diabetes and cardiovascular disease plague my family and myself, I have made a conscience decision to study this disease process and try to find therapies or cures for it. (For those going into grad school, you have write chit like this in a statement of purpose...)
Anyhoo, my most nerdy techie geeky self has just come out... So like when I moved to Texas from California last year, I was at least 130 lbs... Not bad for a 33 yr. old woman... But now, since I have moved outta Texas, I have gained much weight!!!
(I ain't gonna say how much, but it bothers me).
So I was thinking, since my paternal side of my family is genetically predisposed to type 2 diabetes and since the onset of the disease is usually when one gains weight and is considered clinically obese and poor diet is a contributing factor, I started to wonder if it was where I on Earth I chose to live that caused my increased and quite voracious appetite opposed to I was just lazy?
So a little "Google" searching and I determined the Earth's geoid--or gravitational pull changes throughout the Earth... That these changes are marked by oceonographic and climate changes. Then I read something about microgravity or weightless and the havoc it wrecks on astronauts' bodies. Then I started thinking:
What if the Earth's gravitational pull--no matter how slight--affects human biology and genetics so much so, that it affects the diabetic/obesity response genes? And what kind of responses are we seeing? Hmmmm...
For those who want to philosophically discuss this, please respond... I welcome the debate... Especially those biologists, chemists, medical doctors, physicists, engineers--anybody with an interest!!!