It's hard to see how her thesis helps when you spend almost all of your day lying in bed, probably in pain, barely able to speak. To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. The often-surprising results of Levy’s science offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. To briefly sum things up, this book concerns the psychological and social implications of age-related beliefs.

I received a digital galley of this book in exchange for an honest review, and will include it in a TBR round-up for Women's Health Month in May. Positive, surprising and full of powerful, practical advice, As Old As You Think will dismantle commonly held assumptions about how we age and leave readers looking forward to - and no longer fearing - what the future holds. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account.She tackles head on how we can shift these outdated ideas at a societal level and what we can do to help ourselves. She then tackles head on the question of how to start shifting Western cultural ideas around getting older. This book will shatter some of your basic assumptions about aging—and how we can lead longer, healthier, and happier lives.

Ageism robs us of optimism for the longer lives we have created, and it disables the future of the young and the old. Larding the text with examples of remarkable old people (yes, there are old healthy old people, and the ones mentioned are statistical outliers) makes good reading but poor science. Now if I had heard that (being a baby boomer and, hence, rebellious by nature), I would have just ignored silly advice from a clueless white male. The author makes a detailed case that refusing to accept our culture's negative views on aging (which I do in fact reject) can add as much as 7.It has made me realise how easy it is for us to think ourselves old and ill rather than being positive and leading a full life. The message and lessons of "Breaking the Age Code" is required reading and I definitely recommend the book. The eternal legacy of Maggie Kuhn, the Founder of Gray Panthers and one of the most important and effective activists of the 20th century is richly demonstrated in this book. Breaking the Age Code should be required reading for everyone on the planet - but especially in the United States. It matters less when and what you do than that you build up positive age beliefs and trust that your body will respond in kind.