Young Forever
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Aging has long been considered a normal process. We think disease, frailty, and gradual decline are inevitable parts of life. But they're not.
Science today sees aging as a treatable disease. By addressing the root causes of aging we can not only increase our health span and live longer but prevent and reverse the diseases of aging-including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia.
In Young Forever, Dr Mark Hyman challenges us to reimagine our biology, health, and the process of aging. To uncover the secrets to longevity, he explores the biological hallmarks of aging, its causes, and its consequences-then shows us how to overcome them with simple dietary, lifestyle, and emerging longevity strategies.
You will learn:
·How to optimize your body's Key Longevity Switches
·How to reduce inflammation and support the health of your immune system
·How to exercise, sleep, and de-stress for healthy aging
·How to eat your way to a long life, featuring Dr Hyman's Pegan Diet
·Which supplements are right for you ·Where the research on aging is headed
With dozens of tips as well as 30 delicious, age-defying recipes, Young Forever is a revolutionary, practical guide to creating and sustaining health - for life.
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"Your health span can equal your life span," contends Hyman (The Pegan Diet), a senior adviser at Cleveland Clinic's Center for Functional Medicine, in this competent program. Outlining strategies to maintain good health into one's later years, Hyman promotes common wisdom about refraining from smoking, getting "75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week," and maintaining a protein-rich diet. More novel suggestions promise to "reverse biological aging" by harnessing hormesis, a phenomenon in which small stressors "kick your body into high gear to protect itself," ranging from mild (a 16-hour fast) to more extreme (spending time in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which increases air pressure levels). He digs into the science behind aging and explains that readers should avoid eating sugar because it binds with proteins in human blood and tissue, damaging DNA and shortening telomeres (structures implicated in the aging process located at the ends of chromosomes). Some of the more intense and expensive therapies will be impractical for many (the stem-cell injections Hyman touts are not yet legal in the U.S.), but the detailed exercise, dietary, and supplement regimens will have wider appeal. A few unrealistic remedies aside, this makes for a solid primer on keeping up one's health in old age.
