Experimental Man

What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World

By: David Ewing Duncan

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Hardcover | 1 February 2009

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Bestselling author David Ewing Duncan takes the ultimate high-tech medical exam, investigating the future impact of what's hidden deep inside all of us

David Ewing Duncan takes "guinea pig" journalism to the cutting edge of science, building on award-winning articles he wrote for Wired and National Geographic, in which he was tested for hundreds of chemicals and genes associated with disease, emotions, and other traits. Expanding on these tests, he examines his genes, environment, brain, and body, exploring what they reveal about his and his family's future health, traits, and ancestry, as well as the profound impact of this new self-knowledge on what it means to be human.

David Ewing Duncan (San Francisco, CA) is the Chief Correspondent of public radio's Biotech Nation and a frequent commentator on NPR's Morning Edition. He is a contributing editor to Portfolio, Discover, and Wired and a columnist for Portfolio. His books include the international bestseller Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (978-0-380-79324-2). He is a former special producer and correspondent for ABC's Nightline, and appears regularly on CNN and programs such as Today and Good Morning America.

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"...gives us a brilliant view of what cutting-edge medical technology can - and -cannot tell us about our future health." (Financial Times, July 4th 2009)

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Experimental Man Index	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
A fish and mercury story	p. 3
Your host	p. 11
Checkup with my internist (the plan and three rules)	p. 15
Genes	p. 23
Not a genetic virgin	p. 25
Predicting the future	p. 30
I'm doomed. Or not	p. 40
A tale of two brothers	p. 50
My gene pool (mother, father, brother, and daughter)	p. 60
Rollo the Viking and me	p. 72
My dinosaur DNA	p. 87
You show me yours, I'll show your mine	p. 92
Genes 'r' us	p. 101
Ready for prime time?	p. 111
Environment	p. 115
Light my fire	p. 117
Three-thousand-mile trail of blood	p. 124
Idyllic childhood in Kansas, except for the toxic waste dump	p. 129
Hotspot on the Hudson	p. 139
Whose body burden?	p. 145
Do my genes protect me?	p. 153
Immortal cells bathed in mercury	p. 163
The rise of envirogenetics	p. 170
Brain	p. 177
The incredible shrinking brain	p. 179
Remember the moon over the mountain, forget the blonde	p. 190
A brain half my age	p. 199
High anxiety and the saber-toothed editor	p. 208
Does my brain believe in God?	p. 218
Greed, gambling, and why my brain loves Dodgeball, the movie	p. 230
Building a new superbrain	p. 244
Meta-neuroscience and the elusive whole	p. 249
Body	p. 253
Prediction: Heart attack in 2017?	p. 255
Raging lipids	p. 270
Bumps on my kidneys... oh no!	p. 280
Life at age 122 (the gene that regulates forever)	p. 290
Epilogue: Eternity	p. 305
Experimental children	p. 307
Acknowledgments	p. 323
Notes	p. 327
Glossary	p. 351
Experimental man Online	p. 355
Index	p. 357
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Experimental Man

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