How Our Genes are Hurting Us

How Our Genes are Hurting UsTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 208, Segment 1

Jan 8, 2016 • 49m

Guest: Lee Goldman, MD, Dean of Medical School at Columbia University We have some bad news about our health: our genes are out to get us. Traits that our forefathers needed to survive in a violent, dangerous world now conspire to cause the diseases that explain nearly half of all deaths in the United States: obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke--even depression and anxiety. Dr. Lee Goldman explains how this works in his new book, “Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us.”

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