BUILT FROM BURGERS

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Code
3. Chapter Two - The Gene Machine
4. Chapter Three - Your 30 Trillion Employees
5. Chapter Four - The Big Library
6. Chapter Five - You Are What You Eat
7. Chapter Six - Enzymes and Superpowers
8. Chapter Seven - The Immune Army
9. Chapter Eight - The Signal Network
10. Chapter Nine - reproduction.exe
11. Chapter Ten - When It Breaks
12. Chapter Eleven - The Myth of the Meat Robot
13. Chapter Twelve - You, Rewritten
14. Epilogue

Excerpt

PROLOGUE YOU’RE NOT A solid thing. You’re not a finished product. You are a moving process. A living machine that’s constantly rebuilding itself from the inside out. At the center of it all is a code. Three billion letters long. Written in molecules. Copied in every cell of your body. That code builds proteins. Proteins build everything else. Not just skin and bones. Not just muscles and blood. Everything. Enzymes. Hormones. Neurotransmitters. Immune cells. Mitochondria. Memory. Mood. Sex. Disease. Thought. You are a biochemical orchestra of unimaginable complexity and most of it is happening without your permission. This book is not about food. It’s not about cells. It’s not about genes....