In this book the author puts forward an agenda to enhance intelligence and longevity in humans, select animal species (including dogs, dolphins and elephants), and machines. This effort would extend over 1,000 years or 40 human generations. Enhancements of IQ and longevity in humans would involve both environmental and genetic improvements in membership IQ and longevity. The goal would be a mean IQ of 145 and an average longevity of 100 years in human Uplift Project members by the end of t...

"Robert M. Sapolsky is one of the best science writers of our time."—Oliver SacksThe author of New York Times Bestseller Determined offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with over 225,000 copies in print.Now in a third edition, the renowned primatologist Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras...

This guide shows how to change behavior and improve health through a nutrient therapy system that will last when psychiatric drugs are no longer used.Over the past fifty years, psychiatry has made some significantly large strides, but it needs a new direction. The current emphasis on psychiatric drugs works for now, but it is a temporary solution. Studies involving nurses, nursing, interventions and clinical work have led to a new type of treatment.Recent a...

Goodbye, genetic blueprint. . . . The first book for general readers ?on the game-changing field of epigenetics.The burgeoning new science of epigenetics offers a cornucopia of insights—some comforting, some frightening. For example, the male fetus may be especially vulnerable to certain common chemicals in our environment, in ways that damage not only his own sperm but also the sperm of his sons. And it’s epigenetics that causes identical twins to vary widely in their susceptibili...

If you have insomnia this book is for you. Insomnia may be tough to deal with but you can get to sleep easily and sleep better and deeper with certain proven natural foods, herbal medicines and simple lifestyle changes. This book does the investigation into the science for you and provides you the proven answers you need to get to sleep and stay asleep with easy and low-cost natural solutions.Getting to sleep naturally means utilizes evidence-based effective and safe solutions from ...

Every night we drift into another world. Where do we go? What do our dreams mean? Why do we dream? What is lucid dreaming? Can we steer our dreams? These and other questions have been plaguing humanity for centuries. Dreaming has been the subject of myth and speculation, driving mysteries that have stimulated our wildest imaginations. Yet there is now some solid scientific research about dreaming that helps answer many of these questions. Here the author compiles the evidence, together with t...

The End of Stress as We Know It provides readers with the "gold standard" in understanding how their bodies work under stress and why they have the power to avoid its debilitating effects. Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., one of the world's authorities on the subject of stress, here provides unshakable evidence of how mind and body work together either for good or for ill when we are challenged by life's events. Describing the subtle damage that comes from failing to turn off the body's danger alert s...

"Eyeopening... Fascinating... may presage a paradigm shift in medicine.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Teeming with information and big ideas... Outstanding.”—Booklist (starred review)The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and even some kinds of depression is now clear. Award-winning researcher on the microbiome, professor Rodney Dietert presents a new paradigm in human biology ...

Why do we grow up to look, act, and feel as we do? Through most of the twentieth century, scientists and laypeople answered this question by referring to two factors alone: our experiences and our genes. But recent discoveries about how genes work have revealed a new way to understand the developmental origins of our characteristics. These discoveries have emerged from the new science of behavioral epigenetics--and just as the whole world has now heard of DNA, "epigenetics" will be a house...

The book deals with the subject of depression and its causes and answers a number of questions that should be of interest to any and every patient regarding the health-care system and the society in general. Why has the diagnosis of depression increased over the past two decades? Are treatments offered to patients by their primary care physicians and psychiatrists justified and evidence based? Why do patients use nutritional and herbal supplements and are attracted to other complementary t...

Today, one out of every six children suffers from some form of neurodevelopmental abnormality. The causes are mostly unknown. Some environmental chemicals are known to cause brain damage and many more are suspected of it, but few have been tested for such effects. Philippe Grandjean provides an authoritative and engaging analysis of how environmental hazards can damage brain development and what we can do about it. The brain's development is uniquely sensitive to toxic chemicals, and even ...

As a practicing psychiatrist for over 30 years, I have had ample experience working with antidepressants. Judging by what my patients tell me, psychiatric medications, SSRI antidepressants in particular, are prescribed to patients often with little or no information about the risks of taking these medications. When a patient consents for treatment, it should be with the full knowledge of the risks involved and alternative treatments available.For most patients, antidepressants are ...