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Pub. Date
[2018]
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The first book to open up a real conversation about aging. What has the experience of getting older felt like for you? It seems that life's milestones pass by in a flash: graduating from school, landing your first job, getting married, having kids. Most people look forward to these events and have some expectations about what each life milestone will be like. But what about when you get older? How can you continue to live fully in your sixties, seventies,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Borrowed Time will investigate such mind-boggling experiments as transfusing young blood into old rodents, and research into transplanting the first human head, among many others. It will explore where science is taking us and what issues are being raised from a psychological, philosophical and ethical perspective, through interviews with, and profiles of, key scientists in the field and the people who represent interesting and important aspects of...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Everyone would like to age as heathfully as possible and now numerous studies confirm what many yoga practitioners have known for a long time: yoga practice has a remarkable impact on physical and mental health--and spiritual well-being--as you grow older. Yoga for Healthy Aging is the most accessible and usable guide available on how yoga can address concerns related to strength, flexibility, balance, agility, cardiovascular health, brain health,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Recently, top pros have been performing well past a previously considered prime: World-class athletes such as Kelly Slater, the greatest surfer of all time, is winning competitions in his fifties; Tom Brady can beat players half his age. But what about the rest of us? Steven Kotler has been studying human performance for thirty years, and taught hundreds of thousands of people at all skill levels, age groups, and walks of life, how to achieve peak...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Ageless Strength shows athletes and active people how to build sustainable fitness for a lifetime of active pursuits.Its a myth that our older years only bring physical decline. While its true that we lose strength, bone density, and balance, our bodies react the same way to training at any age. The answer is not to go easy on our so-called fragile bodies-that traditional approach of gentle, easy fitness just guarantees loss. The key is to push our...
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Pub. Date
2004
Description
"The Rolling Stones (now in their 60s) have sung for years about "what a drag it is getting old," but it doesn't have to be that way. Living longer is not enough for most of us. The quality of our lives is most important, and much of that depends on our attitudes and approach. Despite living in a youth-oriented society, many of the aged patients seen by Dr. Levine have kept their emotional zest, intellectual zeal, and empowering dignity. Levine also...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"While there are plenty of books offering advice about how to age, none takes the crucial step back to challenge how people think about aging until now. The Aging Syndrome, the core idea in this book, explains the aging process by using three pillars: intrinsic aging, the aging process that no one understands; disuse, both physical and mental; and chronic disease processes, which begin in childhood or sometimes in the womb. Using practical steps and...
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Pub. Date
1996
Description
"How long can humans live? Is immortality possible? Just what is the aging process? The aging and inevitable death of the human body have inspired more myths and outrageous quackery than anything else subject to scientific inquiry. . . . Now comes a most fascinating book, insightful and scholarly, to provide what answers have emerged so far."--San Francisco ChronicleHere, at last, preeminent cell biologist Leonard Hayflick presents the truth about...