RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be?
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060191341 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Donald Mitchell said STOP "STALLED" THINKING ABOUT HAVING A HEALTHY LONG LIFE. An untapped frontier of medicine is how to have a longer period of good health before we die. Many people actually fear long life, because that may extend pain and disability. Yet we all know disabled people who beam with joy in every breath they take. REAL AGE is a good look at factors that affect longeivity, and allows you to understand how your habits and circumstances are likely to affect your life span. In doing this, Dr. . Five Stars Helpful pointers. "A REAl eye opener" according to Richard Danchik. It was this book that opened my eyes on how well I was or wasn't taking care of myself. I was motivated after the first chapter to do things like taking aspirin, limit cell phone calls, taking vitamins, watching diet, etc. I have reduced my realage from my chronological age by 15 years now. If a book can influence people to take care of themselves based on medical science, why not pick up a copy? It's an investment in your life
Suggested behavior changes are rated in order of difficulty so you can decide whether the result is worth the effort. In RealAge, they present the complete results of their analysis for the first time. Ultimately, this program is about maintaining your health. Your arteries become clogged. While your chronological age is fixed, your biological age may be years older--or younger--depending on a combination of factors. Some wore the years well, staying young and exuberant despite the passage of time, whereas others looked as if they had aged ten years more than everyone else--and probably had. Roizen, chair of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago and preventive gerontologist, along with four other scientists, the RealAge program is based on cutting-edge scientific research. Each chapter covers a broad health topic--for example, how the right vitamins and supplements, exercise, or diet can be used to control how your genes affect you--and calculates the RealAge advantage you will gain by adopting a specific behavior. Developed by Dr. Age is not just a chronological measurement; it's the rate at which the primary internal guardians of health--your cardiovascular and immune systems--decline. RealAge demonstrates that you can have more control over the aging process. Most important, it sho
Emotional issues are given as much attention as physical ones; Roizen says, for example, that seeing a psychologist to help work through serious personal problems can reduce your chronological age by 8 to 16 years alone.RealAge may appeal to Fountain of Youth seekers, but will be especially useful for folks who are out of shape and too overwhelmed to start a fitness plan, and for those who are understandably confused by the wealth of contradictory health reports in the news. Michael Roizen, a preventive gerontologist at the University of Chicago who appears perennially in the "1,000 Best Doctors in the U.S." listings, says that with the help of his RealAge program, you can reduce your biological age by u