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In this groundbreaking and absorbing book Dr. Sharon Moalem, delves
back into the evolution of man to offer a radical perspective on
survival, the human body, and our understanding of disease.
Survival of the Sickest will change the way you think about your
body. Dr. Moalem investigates peculiar and puzzling features of
human biology to reveal the answers to such provocative questions
as: Why do we need to pee when we're cold? Can a person rust to
death? Why are Greeks hairier than Africans? Can the tanning salon
lower cholesterol? Why are leeches back in vogue? Can sunglasses
cause sunburns? Who gets drunk faster - Europeans or Asians? In
considering the question of why diseases exist, Dr Moalem proposes
that most common diseases came into existence for very good
reasons. Diabetes, hemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell
anemia may all exist because, at some time in our past, they helped
our ancestors survive some grand challenge to human existence. In
turn, he also discovers that genetic and cultural differences have
led to each race having different and unique ways of reacting to
their environment and subsequently how they become susceptible to
certain diseases. Survival of the Sickest is a book about life -
yours, ours and every little living thing under the sun. About how
we all got here, where we're all going and what we can do about it.
Revelatory and written in an utterly engaging fashion, Sharon
Moalem's book will change the way you think about your body.
Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem
turns our current understanding of illness on its head and
challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our
bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other
living thing on earth. Through a fresh and engaging examination of
our evolutionary history, Dr. Moalem reveals how many of the
conditions that are diseases today actually gave our ancestors a
leg up in the survival sweepstakes. But Survival of the Sickest
doesn't stop there. It goes on to demonstrate just how little
modern medicine really understands about human health, and offers a
new way of thinking that can help all of us live longer, healthier
lives.
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