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The End of Illness

David B. Agus

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Feb 10, 2012 Liz Murray rated it really liked it

Ok I haven't read all of this book, in fact I've only read a couple of chapters but I think it's the type of book that's good to have on hand and in any case not all the chapters are relevant to me, thankfully. I appreciate the common sense approach here and have already rethought my approach to supplements. Cynically it had me thinking "I wonder if the supplement companies have tried to ban the book?" If you take Dr Agus' advice and read about why so many supplements are unnecessary you won't b ...more

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Mar 01, 2015 Kazzy rated it liked it

Shelves: medicine, non-fiction, science, read-in-2015

A lot of the content I've heard before, not that it isn't important, but it's just common sense. The stuff about proteins and DNA analyses was interesting and I'd like to know more about those.

I think the author is naive if he thinks that putting all your health information online is a good idea or working with your company's health care programs isn't going to be used against you. I get that aggregating everyone's information will likely produce data that can studied for ways to help people bu ...more

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Apr 04, 2012 Danielle Dandreaux rated it really liked it

Shelves: nonfiction

This book made me think and challenged the way that I (and our society) thinks about health and medicine. We all need to be critical thinkers and can't believe every news story or promised health benefit on a bottle. The take away health messages were not surprising: exercise and eat healthy food. However, there were many additional things I took away from this book including many fascinating, well-conducted studies and facts about the human body.

I enjoyed the authors passion for the emerging ...more

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