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

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Hollywood's leading ladies are D-O-N-E talking about the challenges of "getting older"--and none more so than Cameron Diaz. What the authors have come up with is that it’s not so much the amount of food that’s important, but the composition of what’s eaten, and also the continuous availability of the food. That means that the DNA each one of us receives from our parents is influenced not only by the lifestyle of our parents but also our grandparents and our great-grandparents and our great-great-grandparents" (p. We know from being avid consumers of media that certain things are “good for us,” but we may not fully understand why. They did a bunch of experiments on fruit flies where they gave them different diets and looked at which ones lived the longest.

And that’s a problem when older people get sick and need help, because about 66 percent of caregivers are female, says Diaz/Bark. 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. He’s really a computer scientist, but he’s become famous for the outlandish claims that he makes about the future of human longevity.The Longevity Book will explore what history, biology, neuroscience and the women’s health movement can teach us about maintaining optimal health as we transition from our thirties to midlife. As well as weight loss, Gabriela's advice will allow you to improve sleep, increase energy and sharpen mental clarity. If you make poor choices, like smoking, or are sedentary or maintain super high stress levels, then you can flip on some of your genetic predispositions to disease, and vice verse with good lifestyle choices. 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. I really enjoyed reading The Body Book but I feel like the focus in that novel was largely on nutrition and fitness.

In fact, exercising increases the volume of your hippocampus in your brain, as well as reduces stress and decreases inflammation. Right now I’m reading sentence-by-sentence an utterly fascinating memoir that I’ll talk about early next week after I’m done reading it. So I just found her whole story of how she discovered this, and how she up-ended a lot of what people thought about what was going on in our brains by simply being able to count the cells, intriguing. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. It was the ones that had the proper level of protein, which is considerably less than if you gave the fruit fly what it wants to eat.As with all these embargoed books I read them before they go on sale and before they’re able to be checked out by library patrons. From Cameron Diaz, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Body Book, comes a fresh, personal and authoritative examination of the art and science of growing older and a road map for abundant health and resilience as we age.