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MattBaggins

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33. What is the nonsense that your DNA doesn't like arylamines?

Reply to 2on2u (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 03:12 PM

Jul 2012

That is crap.

People have different levels of the enzyme that removes arylamine but that does not mean that it is altering DNA. Genetics affects arylamine reduction not vice versa.

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What is the nonsense that your DNA doesn't like arylamines? MattBaggins Jul 2012 #33