The Longevity Book: The Science of Aging, the Biology of Strength, and the Privilege of Time

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For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. The longest-lived bat lives 10 times as long as an average mammal, twice as long as a human, if they were the same size. Not an anti-aging beauty book- not just a celebrity preaching nutrition and exercise ( although that is in it- it has to be to age well and she doesn't preach), but a book that makes me glad to be almost 55. He was penniless by the time he died because he got sued for wrongful death by individuals whose parents or spouses had gone to him perfectly healthy, to get their goat testicle transplant, and then died a few days later.

Thought it would be mainly ‘don’t wear harsh black eyeliner as you age, go for softer browns’ but it’s actually digging right into the science behind your hormones, cells, brain structures, how mindsets affect health - brilliant! People thought you could modify it within certain narrow limits through proper healthy habits, but really couldn’t do anything fundamental about it.

The fascinating thing is the way that she came up with this technique and applied it to dozens and dozens and dozens of species and then explained the world. Healthy foods, like vegetables, fruits and whole grains, are full of antioxidants, and antioxidants actually help the body to fight oxidation in your cells, especially in your brain.

Might be expectation is too high or read too much about the subject in general, but nothing new was said.The Longevity Book explores what history, biology, neuroscience, and the womens health movement can teach us about maintaining optimal health as we transition from our thirties to midlife.

This is so interesting haha maybe one day we can actually be Shape Shifters and change ourselves into someone or something else. The book reports on–and I’ve reported elsewhere on–how maintaining social connections and friendships and other relationships as we head into our sunset years accounts for having better health and happiness. If you took another animal that’s of comparable size, like a small zebra, it has a brain that’s a fifth the size of ours. The reason I included it is that people since Aristotle’s time have been saying ‘take my pill, use my potion, and you can live forever’ or ‘you can stay young forever.

There are now countless resources available to help laymen sort through the noise, from compelling documentaries to fascinating longevity podcasts. I have started “How Not to Die” and so far, this appears to have a deeper level of content that I have not read before. P]eople who [are] socially isolated [have] an elevated risk of developing high blood pressure, heart disease, infections, cognitive degeneration, and inflammation, while loneliness [is] linked to higher risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and a poor immune response to stress.