These are the ideas and information from this book that I would like to hold on to after I finish reading it. Eat Like the Animals emphasizes the importance of a balanced diet by studying the effects of different foods on various animals and insects. The two major risk factors for Alzheimer's disease are age and gender: at age sixty-five and older, women have almost double the risk of Alzheimer's as men.

As someone looking for work and being interviewed by many twentysomethings, I could relate to this: “Traditional hierarchies may be overturned. They got into the longevity business because somebody told them, ‘If you feed animals less, they live longer. Luke oversees all written content from Spannr contributors, in addition to creating original content himself.The Longevity Book focuses on aging—what happens to our body as we age, how we can feel good in our aging bodies and how we might increase our lifetime longevity. Society as a whole can sometimes focus on youth and superficial beauty and look down at the aging process when in reality, aging is gift.

But what it really shows is how desperate people are to live longer, to stay healthy longer and that they will believe anything. His mansion is now a Texas historical landmark and on a plaque there it says that he ‘engaged in controversial medical practices. If you want to live a long and healthy life, understanding the habits of the people who live the longest is a great place to start. In The Body Book, Cameron revealed her insights on health, wellness, and the importance of the mind-body connection in what became an essential guide for young women everywhere. He would show up in an airplane in small towns and gave speeches from the airport, with all the people there.They also serve as great introductions for readers looking for a foundational base of aging industry insights. That’s something that none of the other books really do—trying to think of mortality in the larger human context.

Nutrition and fitness and rest work together to promote cellular growth, repair, and energy production, allowing all the body's systems to function optimally. It's geared towards women, but women and men can both learn a lot from Diaz's level headed approach to the relatively new science of longevity.What a privilege it is indeed to be a woman in my fifties and to be inspired to live my best life now, or 10 years from now. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).