How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us | Lee Goldman | Talks@Columbia

For thousands of years, what didn’t kill us made us stronger. Today, what once made us stronger may just be killing us.
Dr. Lee Goldman, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine; Chief Executive, Columbia University Medical Center, talks about the ways in which the protective traits that once ensured our species’ survival - hunger, thirst, fear, and blood clotting - have come to be the leading causes of illness and death in industrial societies. Our bodies have fallen out of sync with today’s world, but, more importantly, we can do something about it to lead a healthy life in the 21st century.
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