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And that’s a problem when older people get sick and need help, because about 66 percent of caregivers are female, says Diaz/Bark. Weiner covers that discovery, but he focuses a lot on personalities, and the personality that he finds most intriguing is Aubrey de Grey. Many doctors say that compliance is the hardest part of keeping people healthy - they can tell us to treat our bodies better or prescribe medications, but they can't make us adhere to their advice. This book challenges the assertion that we should try to live as long as possible, and forces you to consider how you can best live your life to minimize environmental harm.
From understanding how growing older impacts various bodily systems to the biological differences in the way aging effects men and women; the latest science on telomeres and slowing the rate of cognitive decline to how meditation heals us and why love, friendship, and laughter matter for health, The Longevity Book offers an all-encompassing, holistic look at how the female body ages--and what we can all do to age better.The Longevity Book provides a comprehensive overview of the female body over time, from those first gray hairs that crop up in our thirties to the menopause transition that can begin in our forties or fifties to the increased health risks--for breast cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, depression, and more--we face in our sixties and beyond.
The authors delve into how these processes relate to age-related diseases and explore the impact of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions on aging and longevity. I don't want you to live in fear of ageing, or beat yourself up about the fact that your body is doing something totally natural. Diaz argues that rather than fear aging and refuse to acknowledge it, we are all much better off if we embrace it and learn to age as healthfully as possible.What’s happened in modern times is that we have ultra-processed, high-fructose corn syrup foods, so it takes a lot to get up to our protein quota. Meditation can actually change the architecture of your brain, as well as reduce stress and anxiety. As I get older, I find that I want to better understand the science behind what is happening to my body. I imagine us sitting in her chic apartment overlooking New York with a glass of red wine in our hands and she's teaching me a million things about ageing.
He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Ingredients for healthy aging: fitness, (healthy food), seven hours a sleep a night, and social interaction. The way that people have always approached this before is by measuring the volume of different parts of the brain. Cholesterol plaques can settle throughout a woman's arteries, instead of the more obvious clump, as tends to happen in men's hearts, making it more challenging to detect heart disease in women. Honorable Mentions: Other eye-opening longevity-related reads that are either too old, too new, or just not as heavily reviewed to make it onto the actual list.
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