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Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

2024-12-24 3 min read Sincheenz

There are so many things to applaud in this book. Firstly, the very idea of writing a book on the role of females in evolution. Evolution has mostly explained from the male perspective and has been accepted as the norm. But it is a very fundamental fact that without women and their reproductive success, there would not be 8 billion Homo sapiens on this earth today. The author has done a brilliant job of bringing across this message. Continue reading

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The Body by Bill Bryson

2024-06-10 2 min read Sincheenz

Our body and all that goes into making us who we are—how we move around, how we interact, how we think and react, how we convert what we inhale or ingest, and how we go on to reproduce—is a marvelous piece of engineering, art, and more. It is so complex and seems to all fall into place. Have you wondered who or what created our blueprint and defined how things should work? Continue reading

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Outlive by Peter Attia

2024-04-20 3 min read Sincheenz

This is a book on longevity. It explains how we can maintain fitness and health well into our 80s,90s and even later. The book focuses on tactics for prevention over cure, suggesting that conventional medicine, or Med 2.0, is less effective as it addresses diseases only after they’ve manifested, often after years of development. Therefore, the author advices focussing our attention and treatments on prevention, which he elaborates on and refers to as Med 3. Continue reading