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The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.

This book is at once an autobiography, a cookbook, and a set of musings on the potential of life on Earth and Dr. Jay’s prescriptions on how to make the most of it. Dr. Jay crosses medical boundaries with ease, from radiology to dermatology, from plastic surgery to podiatry, from allopathic to naturopathic. Dr. Jay is one of the few doctors who has taken the opposite approach of most.