The content was serious but I did not find it overly intimidating or scary which can be a possibility at looking at the discourse that can come with aging. In non-cancerous tissue, our genes produce active tumour suppressors and inactive proto-oncogenes (in other words, more of what helps you and less of what hurts you. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on comparing aging processes across species and highlighting the molecular and cellular mechanisms that are conserved. Isn’t it intriguing how some people can maintain active lifestyles well into their nineties while many of their peers are hampered by aging effects decades earlier?

I also really enjoyed the little vignettes about her life and how she's put into practice what she has learned. Telomeres are one of the smallest bits of our bodies, but they have one of the most important jobs: to protect the fragile ends of our chromosomes, kind of like the plastic tab on the end of a shoelace that keeps the fabric from unraveling. We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. From a police procedural set in World War II Berlin to a man pushing his in-laws off a wall in Ningbo, the variety of settings for crime fiction continue to provide a lot of opportunities for armchair travel.Barzilai analyzes findings from a study of 750 SuperAgers who reached old age without any of the typical setbacks like cancer or cognitive decline. They don’t make any grandiose predictions, they just say that if you want to maximize your longevity and your health, this is the proper way to think about what you eat. After he lost his medical license in Kansas, he got mad and decided he was going to run for governor. 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.

If nothing else, this book will ensure that you know that smoking is not good for your health, at any age! But I also wanted to point out that current medical studies tend to focus on aging only by studying animals that are abysmal failures at it. In the New York Times Bestseller, Lifespan, Sinclair weaves between making complex longevity science easy to understand and personal longevity stories.

Many doctors say that compliance is the hardest part of keeping people healthy - they can tell us to treat our bodies better or prescribe medications, but they can't make us adhere to their advice.