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Experimental Man:
What one man's body reveals about his future, your health, and our toxic world
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Experimental Man Index
| Introduction: The Fish and Me |
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A halibut and mercury story |
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Who I am (your host) |
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A visit to my internist (plan of the book, and three rules) |
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| 1. Genes |
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Not a genetic virgin |
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Predicting the future |
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I’m doomed. Or not. |
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A tale of two brothers |
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Three generations of DNA: parents, brother, and daughter |
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Where my ancestors came from |
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My dinosaur DNA |
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Recreational DNA and genetic voyeurism |
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Genes "r" us: the new dot-coms ? |
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Ready for prime time? |
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| 2. Environment |
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Light my fire |
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3,000-mile trek of blood |
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Toxic childhood in Kansas |
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PCBs on the Hudson |
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Whose body burden? |
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Do my genes protect me? |
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Immortal cells bathed in mercury |
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The rise of envirogenetics |
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| 3. Brain |
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The incredible shrinking brain! Remember Ansel Adams, forget
the blond A brain half my age? |
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High anxiety and the saber-toothed editor Does my brain
believe in God? |
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Why my brain loves Dodgeball, the movieBoosting brains ... a
review |
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Meta-neuroscience and the elusive whole |
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| 4. Body |
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Prediction: heart attack in 2017? |
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The Nutritionist X-ray eyes from head to toe The gene that
regulates forever |
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Epilogue |
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Experimental man in the future |
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Experimental Man Online |
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Acknowledgments |
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Glossary |
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Notes |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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