Table of Contents
Introduction - Everything Is About to Change ix
Chapter 1 How Geneticists Think 1
Chapter 2 When Genes Misbehave 24
What Apple, Costco, and a Danish Sperm Donor Teach Us about Genetic Expression
Chapter 3 Changing Our Genes 45
How Trauma, Bullying, and Royal Jelly Alter Our Genetic Destiny
Chapter 4 Use It or Lose It 59
How Our Lives and Genes Conspire to Make and Break Our Bones
Chapter 5 Feed Your Genes 82
What Our Ancestors, Vegans, and Our Microbiomes Teach Us about Nutrition
Chapter 6 Genetic Dosing 108
How Deadly Painkillers, the Prevention Paradox, and Ötzi the Iceman Are Changing the Face of Medicine
Chapter 7 Picking Sides 123
How Genes Help Us Decide Between Left and Right
Chapter 8 We're All X-Men 139
What Sherpas, Sword Swallowers, and Genetically Doped Athletes Teach Us about Ourselves
Chapter 9 Hacking Your Genome 155
Why Big Tobacco, Insurance Companies, Your Doctor, and Even Your Lover All Want to Decode Your DNA
Chapter 10 Mail-Order Child 176
The Unintended Consequences of Submarines, Sonar, and Duplicated Genes
Chapter 11 Putting It All Together 199
What Rare Diseases Teach Us about Our Genetic Inheritance
Epilogue: One Last Thing 223
Notes 227
Index 243
Acknowledgments 253
About the Author 255