Too Much of a Good Thing, Lee Goldman
Too Much of a Good Thing, Lee Goldman
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Too Much of a Good Thing
How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us

Author: Lee Goldman

Narrator: Dan Woren

Unabridged: 11 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/08/2015

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

The dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.

Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, mental illness, heart disease, and stroke. In his fascinating new book, Dr. Lee Goldman presents a radical explanation: The key protective traits that once ensured our species' survival are now the leading global causes of illness and death.

Our capacity to store food, for example, lures us into overeating, and a clotting system designed to protect us from bleeding to death now directly contributes to heart attacks and strokes. A deeply compelling narrative that puts a new spin on evolutionary biology, Too Much of a Good Thing also provides a roadmap for getting back in sync with the modern world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by J. on September 17, 2015

This book by Dr. Goldman is a very interessting read. It is about the four things that our bodies are wired to do that helped us in the distant past but today wreak havoc with our health and our lives. Written so that the layperson can read and understand, he has done a good job of doing what he sat......more

Goodreads review by Mason on August 26, 2023

Don’t read many physiology based books so this was a new perspective for me. Really liked the comparison of hunter gatherers to modern humans and the ideas that our genes are built up to prevent us from starving, bleeding to death, and dying from dehydration. But high blood pressure, obesity, and he......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on October 28, 2015

"Too Much Of A Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us" which I received through Goodreads/First Reads is a remarkably insightful look at the mitigating factors hampering the longevity of mankind and resulting in an increased rate of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and men......more

Goodreads review by Sol on June 15, 2017

A must read book! MD. Lee Goldman describes how four key survival traits are now killing us and the current medical challenges that we faced as a modern society. I have learn so much about our DNA and the ways it has mutated to adapt into every aspect of human history, the dangers of diabetes, high......more

Goodreads review by Debra on January 08, 2016

Dr. Goldman discusses some crucial evolutionary and modern influences on our health in terms lay people can easily understand. This book has compelled me to movement, to include in my daily routine something that requires me to abandon, at least for a few minutes a day, my sedentary lifestyle. "The......more

Quotes

"In this highly original and profound book, Lee Goldman describes how the same physical traits that evolved to ensure our survival are now working against us. For anyone interested in their own and their family's well-being, Too Much of a Good Thing is a must read!"—Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, University Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, author of The Age of Insight and In Search of Memory

"A fascinating look at the health problems that plague us, illuminating why they happen and what to do about them."
—Jerome Groopman, M.D., Pamela Hartzband, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Authors of Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right For You

"This book, written from a deeply expert yet broad medical viewpoint, sets current medical challenges into their larger contexts of our human history and biological pre-history, to provide a crisply related and refreshingly clear-eyed perspective on much that ails us these days. And throughout the book, I also enjoyed the fascinating snippets on topics ranging from platelets to percentages of paleolithic food components to polyandry to presidential obesity."
—Elizabeth Blackburn, Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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