Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being
by Andrew Weil M.D.
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Author: Andrew Weil M.D.Brand: PBS
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-02
ISBN: 0307277542
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Anchor
Book Reviews of Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being
Book Review: Dr. Weil actually visited some of longest lived cultures, to learn what contributes to their health
Summary: 5 Stars
Okinawans reportedly live longer than any other culture and Dr. Weil has spent time there, observing their culture, diet and lifestyle, unlike many armchair researchers, who merely read what others publish. He contrasted the Okinawan diet, with the Japanese diet and diets and lifestyles of other longer lived cultures.
I would like to see someone examine why the counties with the longest average life span, in the United States, are high altitude areas, in Colorado, 2 counties, in Iowa and one, in Maryland. Hawaii was the state, with longest average lifespan, with Minnesota second longest. I am having difficulty discerning any common climatic or cultural characteristic common to these counties. Perhaps, Dr. Weil will examine this interesting phenomenon.
Dr. Weil refocuses antiaging medicine from an obsession with cosmetics and physical appearance to a focus on actual biological health. He makes an important personal observation that all of the ALS patients he has encountered were exceptionally lean and athletic and speculates that extremely low body fat, may reduce protection from fat soluble neurotoxins.
Medically, body fat below 5 %,is very unhealthy and associated with increased cardiac risk. Anorexics have excessive dopamine neurotransmitter levels and considerably increased death risk.
Many of the people, on the covers of the muscle magazines, are less healthy, than they look. Some of these people abuse thyroid, testosterone, human growth hormone and even insulin! One of our Florida Detox patients suffered dangerously high blood pressure, apparently due to an iron overload, secondary to testosterone abuse, although he possessed an impressive physique, due to bodybuilding.
Weil focuses on healthy aging, not immortality. He discusses the lifespan limits imposed by telomeres. Much of the information found regarding reducing inflammation, protein glycation, free radical oxidation, etc., can be found in other books, but Weil provides a good comprehensive, readable discussion of most of the present knowlege, of healthy aging. Weil has an extensive knowlege of nutrition and herbal medicine.
The information discussing medical use of mushrooms was encouraging to read. Even many very knowlegeable, alternative and complementary medicine physicians seem inadequately informed of the potential of mushrooms and mushroom extracts. I feel the mushroom information distinguishes Weil's book from many similar books, written by MDs.
Recently, Dr Weil announced the truth that Vitamin D supplements can reduce the risk of Swine Flu and other influenza. Since his website also sells Vitamin D supplements, the FDA and FTC sent a letter demanding that he cease and desist making any claims that Vitamin D can treat any disease. Read this book and learn information highly profitable pharmaceutical companies do not want you to know. Lets all support Dr. Weil for telling the truth, even when it threatens pharmaceutical profits.
Steven Sponaugle
Research Director, Florida Detox and Wellness Institute
Summary of Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being
In each of his widely acclaimed, best-selling books, Dr. Andrew Weil has been an authoritative and companionable guide through a uniquely effective combination of traditional and nontraditional approaches to health and healthy living. Now he gives us a book about aging that is unlike any other. Drawing on the new science of biogerontology (the biology of aging) as well as on the secrets of healthy longevity ? diet, activity and attitude ? Dr. Weil explains that there are a myriad of things we can do to keep our bodies and minds in good working order through all phases of life. Hugely informative, practical, and uplifting, Healthy Aging is infused with the engaging candor and common sense that have made Dr. Weil our most trusted source on healthy living.With detailed information on:
-Learning to eat right: Following the anti-inflammatory diet, Dr. Weil?s guide to the nutritional components of a healthy lifestyle
-Separating myth from fact about the would-be elixirs of life extension ? herbs, hormones, and anti-aging ?medicines?
-Learning exercise, breathing and stress-management techniques to benefit your mind and body
-Understanding the science behind the aging process
-Keeping record of your life lessons to share with loved ones
Dr. Weil has raised dispensing health advice to an art form. Instead of making his audience feel inadequate or guilty about bad habits, he seems to subconsciously convince readers to do better merely by presenting health facts in a non-threatening way. Healthy Aging is his most scientifically technical book yet (you'll learn all about enzymes like telomerase and cell division and the chemistry behind phytonutrients like indole-3-carbinol, and the connection between cancer and other degenerative diseases like diabetes) yet by far his most fascinating.
His main mission here is to recommend "aging gracefully," which he considers accepting the process instead of fighting it. As the director of the country's leading integrative-medicine clinic (combining the best of traditional and alternative worlds), of course he disses Botox and the slew of $100-a-jar face creams out there. It's also no surprise that he focuses on proper nutrition, moderate exercise, and meditation and rest among his "12-point program for healthy aging." (Triathletes and exercise addicts should take special note of the research linking excessive exercise and ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.) He occasionally references his earlier works, including 8 Weeks to Optimum Health. But the most eye-opening sections are those that discuss the spirituality of aging and its emotional aspects. "Aging can bring frailty and suffering, but it can also bring depth and richness of experience, complexity of being, serenity, wisdom, and its own kind of power and grace," he writes. At 63, Weil is still a bit shy of senior status, but is aging well indeed, with the legacy of his late 93-year-old mother (who?s touchingly eulogized by Weil in this book) to guide him.--Erica Jorgensen
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