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Evolutionary Medicine: rethinking why we get sick

November 27, 2023 Elizabeth Clare Season 1 Episode 19
Evolutionary Medicine: rethinking why we get sick
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Evolutionary Medicine: rethinking why we get sick
Nov 27, 2023 Season 1 Episode 19
Elizabeth Clare

In this episode of the BioAudio podcast we take a look at the emerging field of evolutionary medicine. This discipline asks not "how should we cure X?" but "why are we susceptible to X in the first place, what adaptation has gone wrong?" and these new types of questions are leading to interesting ideas about treatment of common problems. Evolutionary medicine asks us to rethink the question of why we get sick. 

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In this episode of the BioAudio podcast we take a look at the emerging field of evolutionary medicine. This discipline asks not "how should we cure X?" but "why are we susceptible to X in the first place, what adaptation has gone wrong?" and these new types of questions are leading to interesting ideas about treatment of common problems. Evolutionary medicine asks us to rethink the question of why we get sick.