
The Story of the Human Body
A lucid account of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fuelling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease.
A lucid account of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fuelling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease.
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
New York Times bestseller Dan Buettner travels the globe to uncover the best strategies for longevity found in the Blue Zones: places in the world where higher percentages of people enjoy remarkably long, full lives.