Sublime

O genoma como uma máquina autorreplicadora coopta a fisiologia, o metabolismo, o comportamento e a identidade de uma célula, e o resultado é uma doença que muda de forma e, apesar de avanços significativos, desafia nossa capacidade de tratá-la ou curá-la.

He spent thirty-five years experimenting with simplifying his diet.

our flexible guts mean there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ human diet, just countless ways of eating better or worse.

“Não é sinal de saúde estar adaptado a uma sociedade profundamente doente.” — J. Krishnamurti

The empowering news here is that we can mimic many of these benefits in part by keeping tight reins on our bodies’ production of insulin. We can do this by engaging in brief periods of fasting (which I will introduce in chapter 6), avoiding rapidly digesting sugars, and demoting starches (especially processed grains) from mainstays in our diets to

there are more people suffering from obesity worldwide than from hunger.