Aug 5, 2024
In EPISODE 168 OF GROWING OLDER
LIVING YOUNGER I talk with Jennifer Powers PhD, co-author with Luke
Comer, of the newly released book, On the Origin of Being:
Understanding the Science of Evolution to Enhance your Quality of
Life. I found this book to be both a fascinating and
captivating read, and an intensively researched and reference text.
So the overall thesis of the book is that the environment that we
live in today is radically different from the one in which we
evolved. And the agricultural revolution when we stopped being
hunter gatherers, and later the Industrial Revolution,
exponentially accelerated the rate of change in our
lifestyles. It
takes a immeasurably long time for the evolutionary process to
occur in the human body and we have not had the time for our bodies
to genetically adjust to our environment. This evolutionary
mismatch is a key factor in many of the disorders of modern
life.
Jenny Powers is a mom, a writer,
a scientist and an athlete from Colorado. Jenny's PhD is in
immunology, but she left academia to be a mom and to pursue a
writing career. Up to that point, she had only written scientific
journal articles and fiction for middle grade children. The
opportunity to research and write on the origin of being with Luke
Comer, allowed her scientific training and passion for writing to
come together
Episode Timeline
0:11 About evolutionary mismatch and lifestyle changes for better health
9:40 The impact of evolutionary mismatch on modern health.
15:42 Circadian rhythms and their impact on sleep and overall health.
22:34 Chronotypes (sleep types) and their evolutionary significance.
26:45 Nutrition and its impact on health, evolution, and dietary choices.
32:26 Aligning diet with evolutionary needs for optimal health. (32:26)
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