It Takes a Genome How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick

Name: It Takes a Genome How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick
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ISBN: 9780137137466

ISBN-10: 013713746X

ISBN-13: 9780137137466

Edition: 2009

Authors: Greg Gibson

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Human beings have astonishing genetic vulnerabilities. More than half of us will die from complex diseases that trace directly to those vulnerabilities, and the modern world we've created places us at unprecedented risk from them. In It Takes a Genome, Dr. Greg Gibson posits a revolutionary new hypothesis: our genome is out of equilibrium, both with itself and its environment. Simply put, our genes and our cultures are at war. Our bodies were never designed to subsist on fat and sugary foods; our immune systems weren't designed for today's clean, bland environments; our minds weren't designed to process hard-edged, artificial electronic inputs from dawn 'til midnight. And that's why so many…

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List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
Publication date: 12/24/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface:How a genetic culture clash with modern life is making us sick


The adolescent genome


Breast cancerrsquo;s broken genes


Not so thrifty diabetes genes


Unhealthy hygiene


Genetic AIDS


Generating depression


The alzheimerrsquo;s generation


Genetic normality


Endnotes


About the author


Index