Jason Xu
Evolutionary Medicine
Principles of evolutionary medicine
Evolutionary medicine applies Darwinian thinking to health. The texts I keep here explore genetics and biology — the NAT2 gene and drug metabolism, cancer risk, Type II diabetes, the thrifty gene hypothesis, the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), the origins of eukaryotes, programmed cell death, epigenetic inheritance, human genome variation, and the influence of blood type on disease susceptibility.
Disease is not just a failure of machinery — it is often a mismatch between bodies shaped by evolution and environments we did not evolve in.
Podcast
An AI-generated audio overview of the notebook, produced with Google NotebookLM. Each episode walks through the same readings from a different angle.
