The DNA Restart, Sharon Moalem
The DNA Restart, Sharon Moalem
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The DNA Restart
Unlock Your Personal Genetic Code to Eat for Your Genes, Lose Weight, and Reverse Aging

Author: Sharon Moalem, Nobu Matsuhisa

Narrator: P. J. Ochlan

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2016

Synopsis

The DNA Restart by world-renowned neurogeneticist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Sharon Moalem walks you through revolutionary steps to a diet and lifestyle perfect for your individual genetic makeup. The DNA Restart plan utilizes decades of in-depth scientific research into genetics, epigenetics, nutrition, and longevity to explain the pivotal role genes play in the journey to ideal weight and health status.Dr. Moalem’s unique twenty-eight-day plan shows you how to upgrade sleep, sensory awareness, and exercise; conduct easy genetic self-tests that allow you to individualize your carbohydrate intake levels, determine your genetically optimized level of alcohol intake, and more; and genetically thrive by incorporating umami-rich recipes and oolong into your diet. Inspiring testimonials and delicious recipes with mix-and-match meal plans round out this groundbreaking diet book.

About Sharon Moalem

Dr. Sharon Moalem is an award-winning neurologist and evolutionary biologist, with a PhD in human physiology. His research brings evolution, genetics, biology, and medicine together to explain how the body works in new and fascinating ways. He and his work have been featured on CNN, in the New York Times, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, on Today, and in magazines such as New Scientist, Elle, and Martha Stewart's Body + Soul. Dr. Moalem's first book was the New York Times bestseller Survival of the Sickest. He lives in New York City.

About Nobu Matsuhisa

Nobu Matsuhisa is the acclaimed chef proprietor of Nobu and Matsuhisa restaurants located across five continents. In 1977 he moved to Los Angeles and opened his own restaurant in Beverly Hills ten years later. The restaurant quickly became a hot spot and was frequented by Hollywood celebrities, including Robert De Niro, who invited Nobu to set up a restaurant in Tribeca. In August 1994, the two opened up Nobu to critical acclaim. He now has over forty restaurants and seven hotels around the world.

About P. J. Ochlan

P. J. Ochlan, an Audie Award-nominated and multiple AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, has recorded close to 200 audiobooks. His acting career spans more than thirty years and has included Broadway, the New York Shakespeare Festival (under Joseph Papp), critically acclaimed feature films, and regular roles in television series. Along the way, he's worked with countless icons, including Jodie Foster, Clint Eastwood, Robin Williams, Al Pacino, and Garry Marshall.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robin on September 16, 2021

A MD and PhD, this doc knows his stuff! PopSugar 2020 - reread a 2019 book......more

Goodreads review by Karen on October 09, 2016

Read this book for my local healthy living book club. It was well written and researched. I really enjoyed the chapter on oolong tea, learned how it was different than green tea as well as the chapter on Umami. I will be working to get umami in my meals.......more

Goodreads review by Otto on January 12, 2022

Very mixed experience. Interesting background info that isn’t properly gone through or discussed and self help book put together. Would work a lot better as two separate books, one with review of the science and motivation why this diet should work and one pure self help book.......more

Goodreads review by Vincent on September 15, 2016

I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway. Very interesting book. I will try to apply some of the tests suggested. I am not 100% convinced on some of the conclusions, but it is well researched......more

Goodreads review by William on June 17, 2020

I will tell you upfront, I hate dieting. It isn’t that I dislike being an optimal weight or anything like that, my issue is that it seems that there is always some new finding that put everything else to shame. I know to avoid ‘magic bullets,’ but it seems there is always something. There was the lo......more

Quotes

“The DNA Restart gives us a comprehensive and delicious maintenance program for revamping your life! It teaches you how to eat for your genes at any age.” Amie Valpone, bestselling author of Eating Clean: The 21-Day Plan to Detox, Fight Inflammation, and Reset Your Body

“Sharon Moalem MD, PhD, is at the head of a new movement in nutrition: the tailoring of diets to different sets of genes. The DNA Restart is packed with fascinating information about the links between genes, food, and health. Readers are bound to find a plethora of useful information in this book.” Stephen Le, PhD, anthropologist and author of 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today

“A fascinating read. In The DNA Restart Dr. Moalem shows readers the scientific basis behind how living slowly, eating slowly, and rediscovering enjoyment in the simple yet important things in life, can help us get back to our ideal weight.” Alexander Kokkinos, MD, PhD, assistant professor of internal medicine, Athens University Medical School, Greece

“One-size-fits-all is dead in marketing, music, and news. Now, thanks to Dr. Moalem, it is dead in nutrition and diet, too. Moalem shows us not only why we need customized diets, but how to find the ones that will enable our own longer, healthier lives.” Kinney Zalesne, New York Times bestselling coauthor

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