Age Later: Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity

by Nir Barzilai M.D. Narrated by Sean Pratt

Overview

How do some people avoid the slowing down, deteriorating, and weakening that plagues many of their peers decades earlier? Are they just lucky? Or do they know something the rest of us don't? Is it possible to grow older without getting sicker? What if you could look and feel fifty through your eighties and nineties?

Founder of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and one of the leading pioneers of longevity research, Dr. Nir Barzilai's life's work is tackling the challenges of aging to delay and prevent the onset of all age-related diseases including “the big four”: diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's.

One of Dr. Barzilai's most fascinating studies features volunteers that include 750 SuperAgers-individuals who maintain active lives well into their nineties and even beyond-and, more importantly, who reached that ripe old age never having experienced cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or cognitive decline.

In Age Later, Dr. Barzilai reveals the secrets his team has unlocked about SuperAgers and the scientific discoveries that show we can mimic some of their natural resistance to the aging process. This eye-opening and inspirational audiobook will help you think of aging not as a certainty, but as a phenomenon-like many other diseases and misfortunes-that can be targeted, improved, and even cured.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

“In this technical but promising book, Barzilai scrutinizes the lives of centenarians to find the key factors behind their healthy longevity. Readers who enjoy learning the science behind medical theories will be fascinated.” --Booklist

“A thoughtful take on aging that should be of interest to all concerned with the overlap of health and aging.” --Library Journal

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"A thoughtful take on aging that should be of interest to all concerned with the overlap between health and aging." —Library Journal

“In this technical but promising book, Barzilai scrutinizes the lives of centenarians to find the key factors behind their healthy longevity. Readers who enjoy learning the science behind medical theories will be fascinated.”
—Booklist

“Dr. Barzilai is the only person in the world who could have written this remarkable book. Not only is he a world leader in aging research, but also happens to be one of the best science communicators on the planet. Age Later will change how you think about your own life. It is easy to read, humorous, and hard to put down. I highly recommend it!"
—David A. Sinclair, PhD, bestselling author, Lifespan: Why We Age? and Why We Don't Have to

“Many of us have been waiting for this excellent book on longevity by Dr. Nir Barzilai. Nir is one of the international leaders in the aging field and Age Later is a tour de force, compressing thirty years of top research by his group and others into an easy-to-read story on how to stay young for as long as possible.”
—Valter D. Longo, PhD, bestselling author of The Longevity Diet

Library Journal

06/01/2020

Why do some people live past 100 in good health, while others succumb to disease at much younger ages? Barzilai (Inst. for Aging Research, Albert Einstein Coll. of Medicine) explains the latest research into these questions. He studies centenarians to uncover how they differ from the rest of us genetically, biochemically, and physically. One surprising finding: the dietary and exercise habits of healthy people over age 100 do not differ significantly from those of the general population. Some theories of aging—decreasing levels of sex hormones, shortened chromosomal telomeres, calorie restriction as protection from aging—have proved to be less predictive than thought. Barzilai discusses the importance of high levels of "good" HDL cholesterol and the genetic variants that produce them, the research into growth hormone factor, and the difficulty of developing drugs that can replicate these actions. The author is concerned with extending people's well-being into their later decades and concludes with a series of recommendations based on current research, advising readers to be patient: anti-aging drugs will become available someday. VERDICT A thoughtful take on aging that should be of interest to all concerned with the overlap between health and aging.—Rachel Owens, Daytona State Coll. Lib., FL

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177289472
Publisher:	Macmillan Audio
Publication date:	06/16/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	1,033,275

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