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

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I think Cameron Diaz is beautiful and I thought that she might describe how she ages so gracefully, but as the title indicates, it really is the scientific description of how we age. This shift in body composition contributes to a loss of energy expenditure that makes it easier for you to gain weight. The longitudinal Framingham Heart Study taught us that the common denominators of heart disease included high blood pressure, smoking and high cholesterol levels. There are now countless resources available to help laymen sort through the noise, from compelling documentaries to fascinating longevity podcasts.

Travel, learn new languages, take up new hobbies, listen to music — all of these things give our brains the chance to build new valuable connections. I also really enjoyed the little vignettes about her life and how she's put into practice what she has learned. If you have that many cells, 100,000 times as many cells as humans do, and you don’t get cancer in a year—each cell potentially could turn into a cancer—you must have some very, very good mechanisms for preventing cancer. This is Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock. Instead of dreading midlife, instead of fearing forty or fifty, or whatever the magic number is to you, decide how to honor it and own it.The Longevity Book explores 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. That means that many of these women have to reduce their time spent in the workforce to care for others — a major loss of money. Even in the 1930s, believing that a transplantation of goat testicles into your own scrotum would make you live longer just seems crazy.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. From how growing older impacts various bodily systems to the biological differences in the way ageing effects men and women; the latest science on telomeres and slowing the rate of cognitive decline to how meditation heals us and why love, friendship and laughter matter for health. Nicotinamide (Vitamin B3), Zinc Citrate, L-Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Black Pepper Extract 50:1 (Piper nigrum) [Bioperine®]. Barzilai analyzes findings from a study of 750 SuperAgers who reached old age without any of the typical setbacks like cancer or cognitive decline.She interviewed doctors, scientists, nutritionists, and a host of other experts, and shared what she’d learned—and what she wished she’d known twenty years earlier. On the flip-side, as people get older, loneliness occurs more often and that can lead to premature death. Now Cameron continues the journey she began, opening a conversation with her peers on an essential topic that that for too long has been taboo in our society: the aging female body.