Feb 12, 2017
Karel Schrijver, Senior Fellow, Lockheed Martin Advanced
Technology Center, California,Iris Schrijver, Professor of
Pathology and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Pathology Department
Karel Schrijver is a Senior Fellow at Lockheed Martin's Advanced
Technology Center in Palo Alto, California. He was trained as a
stellar astrophysicist, but soon focused on the Sun as the one star
that regulates life on Earth. His professional interests range from
the magnetism in the solar interior and atmosphere to
interplanetary space, to the environments of planets, and to the
impacts of space weather on human technology. He has authored many
research publications and several pieces for the general public,
but this is the first book reaching beyond his daily work. He never
tires from looking at the beautiful star that we live with,
observed with instruments in space that capture the Sun's
atmosphere in colors that cannot reach the unaided human eye.
Iris Schrijver is a Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at
Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a physician with
medical specialty training in both genetics and pathology, and she
directs the Molecular Pathology laboratory at the Stanford Medical
Center. This laboratory provides diagnostic testing for children
and adults with inherited conditions and with cancers. Depending on
the condition tested for, the testing helps to make a diagnosis, to
establish the prognosis, to select the right treatment, and to
monitor for recurrence of disease. Her research targets the causes
of hereditary hearing loss and cystic fibrosis, and the development
and application of optimal diagnostic methods. She has authored and
edited original research articles, book chapters, and books. She is
fascinated by all the connections between her world of DNA, Karel's
universe, and the sheer multitude of links between them, so
paramount to all aspects of life.
Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of
what truly makes the human body. The body that is with us all our
lives is always changing. We are quite literally not who we were
years, weeks, or even days ago: our cells die and are replaced by
new ones at an astonishing pace. The entire body continually
rebuilds itself, time and again, using the food and water that flow
through us as fuel and as construction material. What persists over
time is not fixed but merely a pattern in flux.
We rebuild using elements captured from our surroundings, and are
thereby connected to animals and plants around us, and to the
bacteria within us that help digest them, and to geological
processes such as continental drift and volcanism here on Earth. We
are also intimately linked to the Sun's nuclear furnace and to the
solar wind, to collisions with asteroids and to the cycles of the
birth of stars and their deaths in cataclysmic supernovae, and
ultimately to the beginning of the universe. Our bodies are made of
the burned out embers of stars that were released into the galaxy
in massive explosions billions of years ago, mixed with atoms that
formed only recently as ultrafast rays slammed into Earth's
atmosphere. All of that is not just remote history but part of us
now: our human body is inseparable from nature all around us and
intertwined with the history of the universe.
Personal Paleo Coaching
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