The origins of hemochromatosis reach deep back into human - and protohuman - history, arising first in the Neanderthal population of Northern Europe 40,000 years ago. In this video, we discuss some of that history and the strange reality that a disease that made me “Incompatible With Life” helped my ancestors survive - and, by so doing, made it possible for me to exist.

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