New book · Christian Duarte, PhD
The Listening Genome
How Light, Noise, Nature and Love Shape Our Genes, and the New Science of Why We Are All Sensitive to Our Environment, Some More Than Others
Your genes listen to the world around you. In some of us, they listen more closely.
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For highly sensitive people
The biology behind feeling more
If noise, light, crowds or a kind word seem to reach you more deeply than they reach other people, this book explains what is happening inside you. It follows the signal from your senses all the way to the chromatin, the packaging of your DNA, and shows why the same environment leaves a deeper mark on some people than on others.
The central finding is a hopeful one: sensitive people are not more fragile. They respond more to the bad, and also more to the good.
The book
Inside, you will discover
- why identical twins drift apart as they age;
- how a mother’s care leaves a mark on a stress gene;
- what epigenetic clocks measure, and what commercial tests leave out;
- why the most sensitive people are not more fragile: they respond more to the bad, and to the good.
Every claim comes with the strength of its evidence, and every chapter with a practice you can bring into your daily life.
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Every reader gets four guided audios, The Listening Workbook (75 illustrated pages) and a printable Evidence Map of the whole book.
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About the author
Christian Duarte, PhD, is a molecular biologist who did research at Spain’s National Center for Biotechnology and IMDEA Nanoscience, and taught research methodology and scientific writing for nearly a decade. He is the author of the Highly Sensitive People series, with readers in English, Spanish, and German. He writes at christianduarte.com.
Coming soon in Spanish: «Lo que tus genes escuchan»