"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"--Amazon.com.

"December 2015"--Title page verso.

Introduction -- Part I. The pros and cons of four key human survival traits. How our bodies became what they are -- Hunger, food, and the modern epidemics of obesity and diabetes -- Water, salt, and the modern epidemic of high blood pressure -- Danger, memory, fear, and the modern epidemics of anxiety and depression -- Bleeding, clotting, and the modern epidemics of heart disease and stroke -- Part II. Protecting our bodies in the modern world. Can our genes evolve fast enough to solve our problems? -- Changing our behavior -- Changing our biology.