★A book written by Steve Jobs’ doctor
★Amazing secrets about health and happiness told by the world’s top cancer authority
★Recommended by Seon-ah Kim (animal behavioral medicine expert), Jeong-mo Lee (former director of Gwacheon National Science Museum), and I-kwon Jang (behavioral ecologist)!
“『Elephants Don’t Get Cancer』 is a very unique book. It takes us across taxonomy, ecology, cytology, embryology, pathology, immunology, and microbiology. oh my! How do you read this? You are welcome! It’s not burdensome at all.”_Lee Jeong-mo
Disease, emotions, intelligence, and social and thinking skills…
Solving human challenges that seemed like they would never be solved
How to survive on Earth, told by the most perfect neighbors called ‘animals’!
David B. Argus, who created a sensation in the medical world by presenting a new paradigm on health through the New York Times bestseller 『The End of Disease』, has returned with his latest hit work 『Elephants Don’t Get Cancer』. David B. Argus is the world’s leading cancer authority and scientist who has received awards such as the American Cancer Society Research Physician Award, the Sloan-Kettering Institute Clinical Scientist Award, and the International Myeloma Foundation Vision Science Award, and has conducted research to improve the quality of human life throughout his life. In this book, based on past research, we explore human problems that still have clear limitations, and unfold the answers through animals in nature. ‘Why are giraffes, who are born with long necks, free from cardiovascular disease?’, ‘For the sake of perfect teamwork, which colleagues do ants let die and which ones they save?’, ‘In the Monty Hall quiz that humans cannot solve. ‘How do pigeons win every time?’ and ‘Do elephants really not get cancer?’ are a vast and systematic study of the physical and social systems that we can learn from them, crossing the fields of cytology, embryology, and microbiology as well as evolutionary biology. talk in a way You can feel the mystery of life science through the operating principles of hormones, genes, DNA information, and microbiome, which are important issues in this course. Anecdotes from the various people David B. Agus met, from his days as a T-cell immunology researcher to his time as a professor at a medical school and now as the founder of a cancer treatment research institute, add depth and expertise to this book.
Today, with the average lifespan increasing and people reaching the age of 100, the question of ‘how to live this long life’ has become important. Discussions on health issues such as slow aging, zero sugar foods, and intestinal microorganisms, as well as discussions on mental enhancement such as digital detox, positive psychology, mindset, and emotional intelligence are taking place more actively than ever before. In other words, beyond simply the issue of long-lived survival, this trend, eventually referred to as ‘well aging’, has become a desire and trend representing society, and in that respect, ‘Elephants Don’t Get Cancer’ helps us understand the limitations of life. It will be a timely book that will help you overcome and take a step forward.
