{"id":2625,"date":"2009-06-24T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T07:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2009-06-24T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T07:55:48","slug":"clash-between-our-genes-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/06\/clash-between-our-genes-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Clash between our genes &#038; environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thenew book by Gibson &#8220;It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick&#8221;  raises some interesting points (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Takes-Genome-Between-Modern-Making\/dp\/013713746X\">Amazon review<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our genome is out of equilibrium, both with itself and its environment. Simply put, our genes aren&#8217;t coping well with modern culture.<!--more--> Our bodies were never designed to subsist on fat and sugary foods; our immune systems weren&#8217;t designed for today&#8217;s clean, bland environments; our minds weren&#8217;t designed to process hard-edged, artificial electronic inputs from dawn &#8217;til midnight. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thenew book by Gibson &#8220;It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick&#8221; raises some interesting points (from the Amazon review) Our genome is out of equilibrium, both with itself and its environment. Simply put, our genes aren&#8217;t coping well with modern culture. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/06\/clash-between-our-genes-environment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clash between our genes &#038; environment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}