Talk:Phosphatidylethanol
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phospharidylethanol
editis the value of 107 ng/l high? 2601:19B:800:8120:8823:5321:304E:5379 (talk) 14:44, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
Who are these "experts"?
editWhilst in the future accurate measurement of phospharidylethanol levels in the blood of healthy individuals might indeed be a 'useful biomarker' it would appear to me that the 'team of international experts' are anything but.
The technology is immature and is being pushed out to point of care medical units without sufficient education. The attempt to establish 'standards' at a global level is unscientific and in fact very dangerous, leading incompetent medics to apply a stigmatic label of 'alcohol dependence' to many who in fact may be, for valid biological reasons, 'self-medicating' with a legal substance. The Basel conference was a group of over-specialised, and self-serving scientists.
As a biologist with particular interest in mitochondrial function and maternal inheritance I would be most pleased to entertain the discussion in person as a consultant, and am most grateful to have recently been accepted as a new member of PeTH-NET Ianactually (talk) 02:13, 17 September 2024 (UTC)