Gene Genius : Mira Non-fiction - Dr Margaret Smith

Gene Genius

By: Dr Margaret Smith, Sue Williams

Paperback | 1 September 2015

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Gene Genius: Understand your DNA and create your own genetic roadmap to health and happiness
  • Ever wondered why someone on exactly the same diet loses weight much faster than you?
  • Puzzled about why you crave a sugar fix more than other people seem to?
  • Can’t understand why your best friend stresses less than you?
  • Can’t work out why some people love taking risks, when you don’t?
The answers are all in our genes. Today, we sit on the threshold of the most far-reaching health revolution of our times — now we can identify some of the key genes that make a huge difference to our individual make-up.

Gene Genius explains the science of DNA and genetic inheritance. This book takes you on a journey through the human genome, shedding light on how your genes influence your mental and physical health and showing how you can plot a clear path to a healthier you.

Leading genetic scientist Dr Margaret Smith along with health writer Sue Williams offer suggestions for how to deal with any problematic genetic inheritance, such as a predisposition to weight gain, mental illness, stress, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, drug or alcohol dependencies and much more.

Their sensible, informed advice reveals how you can transform your health and well-being by working in harmony with your genes and accomplish life-changing results.

About the Author

Sue Williams is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist, who worked in print and television in the UK and New Zealand before coming to Australia in 1989 and writing for all of the country’s leading newspapers and magazines. Her recent books include Growing Great Kids with Father Chris Riley, Outback Heroines, Father Bob: The Larrikin Priest and Left For Dead about a policewoman left fighting for her life after a brutal attack. Sue has long had an interest in health and wellness; her first book, Powering-Up, was a guide to beating stress and living well.

Dr Margaret Smith is a molecular geneticist with over 20 years’ experience in neurogenetics and cancer genetics. A brilliant scientist, she has worked in major teaching hospitals in both Australia and New Zealand. Margaret has helped develop methods to enable cost-effective breast cancer screening in diagnostic laboratories in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

She is recognised locally for her contribution to genetics with her appointments to the Human Variome Project, as scientific associate of the Genomic Disorders Research Centre, and as associate investigator for the NH&MRC grant application for funding to provide a database for collection of sequence variation. Since 2000, she’s been a member of the Victorian Cooperative Oncology Group (Cancer Genetics Advisory Committee). Recently, Margaret became the co-founder of a nutritional genomics company called SmartDNA

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