<International Circulation>: One of the things coming out of evolutionary medicine is that you are trying to advocate for lifestyle changes.  In addressing disease the question is not how can we treat this disease?  Or， how did this arise?  But more why do we have this disease and how is it related to our environment?

  《国际循环》：您从进化医学得出的一个结论是您试图提倡生活方式的改变。在和疾病的对抗过程中一个问题是我们如何治疗这种疾病，或者说，这种疾病是怎么发生的？但是更需要知道的是我们为何会患这种疾病以及这种疾病和我们生活的环境有什么相关性？
 
    Prof. Ganten: The first thing is a research topic.  Sequencing the whole of evolution will take a lot of time.  We have sequenced a lot of organisms to date but it still requires looking into the details of which genes are inactive， looking at proteins and their metabolites.   This is a huge research project but what I am suggesting is that that is research I would like to do.  That is research that will lead to new medicine.  Today’s research would dramatically increase the success rates of certain drug treatments or other conventional treatments but that is not the way we will really improve medicine.  Of the 7 billion people on Earth， less than 1 billion are well treated.  6 billion people are not well treated now and we will not be able to solve any real health issues if the treatment used is interventional catheterization， for instance.  It is too expensive and logistically impossible.  We have to think about another type of medicine.  Evolutionary medicine is a type of medicine looking at the effects of what we can learn from evolution.  What we can learn from the history of our biological setup.  The example I was giving is that if I look at a healthy patient’s blood chemistry and the time course of it， I may be able to see that there is evidence of a certain development.  By looking at development and looking at history it is possible to know more about the dynamics health problems.  Biology and life and health and disease are dynamic， not stationary or static.

    Ganten教授：第一件重要的事情是研究主题。弄清楚进化的整个过程需要花费大量的时间。迄今为止我们已经对大量的生物进行了测序，但是还需要对基因失活的那些细节进行研究，对蛋白和它们的代谢过程进行研究。这是一个很庞大的研究工程但是我还是建议研究自己想要研究的领域。这就是将会产生新医学的研究。当代的研究将会显著增加特殊药物治疗或传统治疗手段的成功几率，但是这并不是我们能从本质上改善医学的途径。在地球上的70亿人口中，得到良好治疗的人不足十亿。剩下的60亿人至今都没有得到有效的治疗，而且举例而言，除非我们使用的治疗方法是导管介入，我们将不能解决任何实际的健康问题。这是非常不切实际而且不合逻辑的。我们必须思考另一种类型的医学。进化医学是一种研究我们能从进化中学到什么东西的医学。这种医学告诉我们能从自己的生物学执行程序中学到什么。我在这里提到一个例子是如果我对一位健康患者的血液化学以及这个过程中的变化进行研究，我就可能看出存在于一个特定发展过程中的证据。通过对发展和历史进行研究，就可能更多的知道健康问题的动态变化。生物学和生命以及健康和疾病都是不断发展变化的，并不是一成不变或静止的。