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Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about the longest-living animals on the planet. Which animal holds the all-time record? How does a slower metabolism affect longevity? How does a large number of neurons in the cerebral cortex affect an animal's lifespan? Is the "immortal jellyfish" really immortal? How can studying it benefit humans and unlock the secret to living longer and healthier lives? The answers to all these questions and...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Ikaria is mythical, beautiful, enigmatic--and, as we learned after reading the New York Times article about it, a place where residents live unaccountably long lives. Part cookbook, part travelogue, filled with gorgeous photography, stunning recipes, and interviews with locals, and packed with the often quirky secrets to a long life that Ikarians are spoon-fed at birth, Ikaria is award-winning author Diane Kochilas's ethno-culinary paean to this...
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The body has a remarkable ability to ward off diseases and heal itself-and it does so with the help of : glutathione (GSH). At the forefront of the latest GSH research, Dr. Nayan Patel addresses important questions such as: What is glutathione? What happens when your GSH levels are low? What diseases does GSH ward off? How can you naturally increase the amount of GSH your cells produce? What are the safest and most effective GSH supplements? With...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"Learn how to reboot your metabolism, build strength, and extend your life with this accessible new guidebook that demonstrates the importance of muscle for health and longevity from the founder of the Institute for Muscle-Centric Medicine®. After years of watching patients cycle through her practice, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon noticed a pattern. While her patients struggled with a wide range of conditions, they all suffered from the same core problem: they...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Complex, philosophically searching, and gorgeously rendered, Rebekah Bergman's The Museum of Human History is a sharp and startling debut about a young girl frozen in time in a world obsessed with youth and self-preservation. After nearly drowning, eight-year-old Maeve Wilhelm falls into a strange comatose state. As years pass, it becomes clear that Maeve is not physically aging. A wide cast of characters finds themselves pulled toward Maeve, each...
Author
Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In an unprecedented collaboration between three of today's most powerful minds, Deepak Chopra, M.D., teams up with physicist Jack Tuszynski, Ph.D., and endocrinologist Brian Fertig, M.D., to bring readers a visionary work that delves into the innovative world of quantum science and shows how unlocking its secrets can revolutionize how we live and age--and, ultimately, how we can eradicate disease. The key is the quantum body. Unlike our physical...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Diane Kochilas' new cookbook brings the plant-based cuisine of Ikaria to your dinner table. Ikaria is an island in Greece where people live to a ripe old age, sometimes living well past 100. Diane Kochilas, host of the television series My Greek Table, is a daughter of Ikaria. The Ikaria Way is her latest cookbook and is filled with easy, contemporary recipes rooted in her background and steeped in the ancient Greek traditions of plant-based cuisine....
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In The Big 100, journalist William J. Kole tackles the pressing questions of our super-aging future and offers an encouraging view of the reality that awaits us, our children, and our grandchildren. Countering a forbidding bleakness with profound policy, societal, and lifestyle solutions, The Big 100 flashes the brightness of a future few thought possible. New member of AARP and grandson of a centenarian, Kole explores the looming era of longevity...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From best-selling author and social-media-star doctor comes a step-by-step guide to reversing the effects of aging at any stage in life.
Growing older is a blessing. But the slow decline and the loss of functionality associated with aging has led us to treat the process like a disease. These negative effects of aging, however, are not inevitable. Rather, they're largely the result of environmental and lifestyle factors that, when properly addressed,...