Most of us want to live a long, healthy life, but how do we do that? Drawing upon lessons from his own life, Mayo Clinic cardiologist Stephen Kopecky offers a holistic, evidence-based approach to preventing common diseases and chronic illnesses and living a longer life of pleasure and purpose. In the past century, the leading causes of death around the world have shifted from infectious diseases to long-term chronic illnesses. What’s killing us today isn’t so much flu or tuberculosis, but heart disease and cancer. In fact, more than 1.2 million Americans die from these two diseases each year. Paradoxically, these chronic diseases are a consequence of living longer than ever. But even if we’re living longer, are we living better? The overwhelming number of people now living under the burden of chronic illness indicates otherwise. After surviving two bouts of cancer, Dr. Stephen Kopecky, M.D set out to discover the behaviors people can adopt to live longer lives free of chronic illnesses and diseases. What he discovered was that the answer lies in just six habits that require small changes to your daily life, but reap big results long-term. From adopting better diet and exercise habits to managing stress and sleep, these behaviors will not only preserve your health, they can improve your quality of living and extend your life. The secret, however, lies not just in the steps themselves but in how you accomplish them. This book offers in-depth insights on: The best foods to eat and why Increasing physical activity and improving fitness Why your sleep habits matter The dangers of stress and what to do about them The true impact of alcohol and tobacco on our bodies How to make changes that will last a lifetime After 30 years of research in the field of cardiovascular disease prevention, Dr. Kopecky is sharing what he’s learned from his practice and own personal experience about staying healthy, preventing chronic illnesses, and living younger longer.

Aging is inevitable, but whether you get old or not is within your control! Living Younger empowers you to create an amazing aging experience as you learn how to enjoy health and vitality for decades. If you have noticed new aches and pains, a decline in your ability to do some of the activities you love, or a loss in energy and vitality, you may have begun to feel a sense of dread about your aging process. Dread not! The last half of your life can be filled with decades of high quality living if you want it to be! Within this book you will discover how to create more energy, how to have a body that feels good and moves well, and how to enjoy the activities you love as long as you wish! You will discover:-An exercise program that keeps your body agile, mobile, and strong for life-How to eat in order to decelerate aging in your cells-How to prevent lifestyle diseases associated with aging-Empowering perspectives that will create a mindshift about your choices-How to create small changes today that will enable a full life for decades-Examples of older adults who are leading rich, vibrant livesThis book will enrich you whether you are 40 or 80. It is never too late to get started, as you will see in several of the examples provided! Even if you are already experiencing some age-related limitations or setbacks, you will learn of several factors you still can control that will increase the quality of your life. Download your copy of Living Younger today to be inspired, empowered, and equipped to create a future you feel excited about!

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Based on the groundbreaking study that shaved three years off a subjects' age in just eight weeks, discover a proven, accessible plan to prevent diseases and reduce your biological age. It’s true: getting older is inevitable and your chronological age can only move in one direction. But you also have a biological age, which scientists can measure by assessing how your genes are expressed through epigenetics. Exciting new research shows that your bio age can actually move in reverse—and Dr. Kara Fitzgerald’s groundbreaking, rigorous clinical trial proved it’s possible. By eating delicious foods and establishing common-sense lifestyle practices that positively influence genetic expression, study participants reduced their bio age by just over three years in only eight weeks! Now Dr. Fitzgerald shares the diet and lifestyle plan that shows you how to influence your epigenetics for a younger you. In Younger You you’ll learn: It’s not your genetics that determines your age and level of health, it’s your epigenetics How DNA methylation powerfully influences your epigenetic expression The foods and lifestyle choices that most affect DNA methylation Simple swaps to your daily routines that will add years to your life The full eating and lifestyle program, with recipes and meal plans, to reduce your bio age and increase vitality How to take care of your epigenetic expression at every life stage, from infancy through midlife and your later decades We don’t have to accept a descent into disease and unwellness as we age as inevitable: when you reduce bio age you reduce your odds of developing all the major diseases, including diabetes, cancer, and dementia. With assessment tools for determining your bio age, recipes, and plans for putting it all into practice,Younger You helps you repair years of damage, ward off chronic disease, and optimize your health—for years to come.

Human ageing is reversible. Scientific research shows that we can literally turn back the markers of getting old, including blood pressure, muscle strength, cholesterol levels and many others. Using the tools in this book, you can learn specific strategies for melting away those biological years so you can feel, perform and look like you did as many as fifteen years ago. Grow Younger, Live Longer is a complete anti-ageing manual, including a simple programme, at the heart of which are ten essential steps. If you incorporate these into your weekly routine, your age-reversal process will very soon be underway. Combining all the knowledge and pioneering spirit that made Ageless Body, Timeless Mind into a huge international bestseller, with all the latest discoveries in mind/body medicine, Grow Younger, Live Longer will show millions of readers round the world how they can achieve a long life filled with joy and vitality.

"JOY IS A FORCE OF NATURE." - David A. Foster, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Hunter College Have you arrived at that day of reckoning when you look in the mirror and find yourself admitting, "I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I feel. I wish I could start over again!" Well, you can. Joy Gross is living proof that when you change your diet and incorporate healthful practices into your life, you will end up looking and feeling brand new. You can revolutionize your entire approach to living. Maybe you'll even take up skydiving at the age of 81, as Joy did! "Joy's Recipes for Living Younger ... Longer" is not just another book about the virtues of eating better for health. Joy Gross and her husband, Dr. Robert Gross, co-founded the legendary Pawling Health Manor in upstate New York. Over the course of three decades she demonstrated the effectiveness of the principles she believed in by applying them to more than 60,000 clients. Celebrities from Hollywood to Broadway paid tens of thousands of dollars for the health secrets provided at the Manor. But all of these secrets-and more-are revealed completely in this succinct and powerful book. Delicious recipes show you practical ways to nourish your body and maintain an alkaline inner environment. Joy shows you how to make beautiful nutritious salads, innovative raw and steamed vegetables, and magic green chlorophyll-rich juice and smoothies. You'll put together luscious fruit plates and even yummy desserts. Plant-based meals have never tasted so good! Joy's book truly delivers on the promise of its title. If you make the changes she advocates, you will become younger and live younger ... and enjoy a happier, healthier, and more vibrant life. Joy Gross is a health expert and author who has been a pioneer in the field since the 1950s.She has been committed to a "green" diet and lifestyle for 70 years, since she conquered a serious childhood disease through a radical change in eating habits. As director, lecturer, and all around hands-on person at the Manor for over 30 years, her own knowledge and expertise became well honed. She is the author of three previous books: "The 30-Day Way to a Born-Again Body," "Thin Again!," and "The Vegetarian Child." A mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Joy lives an active life in Rhinebeck, New York, where she paints, gardens, and jumps out of planes. "Joy always tells me she's proud to have me as her son-in-law. I'm proud to have her as my mother-in-law. My patients from upstate always know who she is!" - Hector Rodriguez, M.D., Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center "Joy Gross is a living testament to the power of eating healthfully. Read, learn, enjoy."- Laura Pensiero, owner of Gigi Hudson Valley, registered dietitian, and author of "Hudson Valley Mediterranean"

During his more than thirty years as a vascular surgeon, Richard Furman literally held clogged arteries and diseased hearts in his hands and wondered why the person lying on the table hadn't been more careful. Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in America, and in most cases it is completely preventable. So why are we slowly destroying our bodies and killing ourselves? And what can we do to turn it around? The good news is, simple, sustainable lifestyle changes can mean the difference between health and infirmity, between life and death. Putting his three decades of experience and education to work, Dr. Furman gives readers the strategies they need to live not just longer, but younger. This essential resource to health helps readers -achieve and maintain their ideal weight -reduce their risk for life-threatening diseases -make exercise a natural part of their lives -learn what foods to eat and what foods to avoid It even shows how following the plan can not only eliminate heart disease, but also keep people safe from various cancers, dementia, diabetes, stroke, erectile dysfunction, and other age- and obesity-related problems. Dr. Furman wants readers to realize that poor health during one's "golden years" is not inevitable. It can and should be avoided at all cost. And with his expert advice, readers can live long, healthy, vibrant lives, enjoying time with friends and family instead of wasting it in doctors' offices and hospitals.

The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease and improving life. Have you wondered why some sixty-year-olds look and feel like forty-year-olds and why some forty-year-olds look and feel like sixty-year-olds? While many factors contribute to aging and illness, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn discovered a biological indicator called telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres, which protect our genetic heritage. Dr. Blackburn and Dr. Elissa Epel's research shows that the length and health of one's telomeres are a biological underpinning of the long-hypothesized mind-body connection. They and other scientists have found that changes we can make to our daily habits can protect our telomeres and increase our health spans (the number of years we remain healthy, active, and disease-free). The Telemere Effect reveals how Blackburn and Epel's findings, together with research from colleagues around the world, cumulatively show that sleep quality, exercise, aspects of diet, and even certain chemicals profoundly affect our telomeres, and that chronic stress, negative thoughts, strained relationships, and even the wrong neighborhoods can eat away at them. Drawing from this scientific body of knowledge, they share lists of foods and suggest amounts and types of exercise that are healthy for our telomeres, mind tricks you can use to protect yourself from stress, and information about how to protect your children against developing shorter telomeres, from pregnancy through adolescence. And they describe how we can improve our health spans at the community level, with neighborhoods characterized by trust, green spaces, and safe streets. The Telemere Effect will make you reassess how you live your life on a day-to-day basis. It is the first book to explain how we age at a cellular level and how we can make simple changes to keep our chromosomes and cells healthy, allowing us to stay disease-free longer and live more vital and meaningful lives.

Dr. Francisco Contreras offers proven research that will improve your health