Hacking Darwin by Jamie Metzl

Author:Jamie Metzl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2019-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

*For those who still think the Bible is an original work…

*I’ve always wondered why people who believe in the “intelligent design” theory of evolution are not asking why our designer, if he or she is so intelligent, gave us so many fragile individual parts.

*Centenarians are people who live to be age one hundred and beyond.

*This is not a self-help book, but if you want to live longer and healthier, I recommend that you incorporate as many of the lessons of Dan Buettner’s blue zones as you can: exercise or at least get moving every day, find your spiritual center and special purpose in life, decrease your stress level, switch to a mostly plant-based and not-too-high-calorie diet, invest in your social and family life, and stop drinking too much alcohol. I would also be remiss, or at least in trouble, if I did not mention that my brother Jordan has written a fantastic book on the systemic health benefits of exercise: Jordan Metzl, The Exercise Cure: A Doctor’s All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life (Rodale, 2013).

†As someone addicted to my morning cup of hot chocolate and deeply passionate about salted caramel soufflé, even I can’t in good faith sign on to such a restrictive regimen.

*Alter completing a nineteen-hour ultramarathon in the rain forest of Taiwan, someone back at my Taipei hotel told me I must be getting paid a lot of money to participate in the race. He was incredulous when I told him I actually paid an entrance fee.

*Today, red blood cells can be stored for only ten years. But more easily stored cells like skin cells could probably be frozen indefinitely then thawed in the future and induced to become blood cells that could be used in self-transfusions. I explore this possibility in my novel Eternal Sonata.

*To address the time-lag issue of spending tomorrow’s savings today and add an additional incentive for progress, big countries like the United States could offer health span bonds.

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