Intro to Biology
Dr, Hintzsche
04/18/2018
Psoriasis and Biology
You know how they say that big things come in small packages? That is how I think of Biology, the smallest thing like a cell can do some impressive things. Biology being the study of life gives us an endless reality of changing and learning the ways of life. Taking the smallest thing like a cell has the power to change everything. The cell’s power can be used for good or for bad. Cells have the capabilities to cure the most invasive diseases. Us humans, for instance, is such a complex organism cell growing, reproducing and then dying and starting all over again. Sometimes there are issues that cause things to go wrong. I suffer from Psoriasis. Psoriasis is a …show more content…
(WebMD, 2012) People who suffer from Psoriasis sometimes have others looking at a them with skin condition and then to stay away because the thought that they may be contagious. Psoriasis a skin condition is not contagious, but it does affect a person to go through social rejection and discrimination. A flawed generate in the immune system causes of rapid reproduction of skin cells in the body. People with Psoriasis make new skin cells between 2-6 days. That is about four times more than the time they are normally produced, which is 21-28days. “Psoriasis affects approximately 3% of people globally and usually develops in patients between age 11 and age 45.” (MNT, 2009) To a lot of people three percent globally can seem little when it looks at as a percentage. To break it down if there were exactly one billion people in the world, that would mean that thirty million people are affected with …show more content…
Knowing this important information could help lessen the suffers. There are also related cases that Psoriasis also is linked to arthritis. People who suffer from severe Psoriasis and arthritis are in pain as well, again that is why the biologic medications seem to have a high success rate in autoimmune diseases. Some may think that a skin disease is not as important as a life-threatening disease, but as I learned to have this immune deficiency can be linked chronic diseases. People that don’t suffer from this skin condition find it hard to understand this embarrassing ugly skin condition. The endless questions of what is wrong with me? Why do your legs look like that? I had one person ask me if I had bed bugs. It is also very disgusting when you get into a car and you see all the skin flakes on the inside of the car. I for one am very excited about the biologic relations that they are finding and trying to control the condition until a cure is found. Also learning how the DNA looks in the suffers other immune diseases may also be controlled in the findings of the controlling of Psoriasis. One of the takes I can take from finding more about Psoriasis and how its linked to the proteins within DNA and how that