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Lifespan - Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have to (Hardcover)
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Lifespan - Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have to (Hardcover)
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List price R615
Loot Price R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
You Save R67 (11%)
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In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical
School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential
people on earth, Dr. David Sinclair reveals that everything we
think we know about ageing is wrong, and shares the surprising,
scientifically-proven methods that can help readers live younger,
longer. For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety
of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no one dies of
old age; they die of age-related diseases. That's because ageing is
not a disease - it is inevitable. But what if everything you think
you know about ageing is wrong? What if ageing is a disease? And
that disease is curable. In LIFESPAN, Dr. David Sinclair, one of
the world's foremost authorities on genetics and ageing, argues
just that. He has dedicated his life's work to chasing more than a
longer lifespan - he wants to enable people to live longer,
healthier, and disease-free well into our hundreds. In this book,
he reveals a bold new theory of ageing, one that pinpoints a root
cause of ageing that lies in an ancient genetic survival circuit.
This genetic trick - a circuit designed to halt reproduction in
order to repair damage to the genome -has enabled earth's early
microcosms to survive and evolve into more advanced organisms. But
this same survival circuit is the reason we age: as genetic damage
accumulates over our lifespans from UV rays, environmental toxins,
and unhealthy diets, our genome is overwhelmed, causing gray hair,
wrinkles, achy joints, heart issues, dementia, and, ultimately,
death. But genes aren't our destiny; we have more control over them
than we've been taught to believe. We can't change our DNA, but we
can harness the power of the epigenome to realise the true
potential of our genes. Drawing on his cutting-edge findings at the
forefront of medical research, Dr. Sinclair will provide a
scientifically-proven roadmap to reverse the genetic clock by
activating our vitality genes, so we can live younger longer.
Readers will discover how a few simple lifestyle changes - like
intermittent fasting, avoiding too much animal protein, limiting
sugar, avoiding x-rays, exercising with the right intensity, and
even trying cold therapy - can activate our vitality genes. Dr.
Sinclair ends the book with a look to the near future, exploring
what the world might look like - and what will need to change -
when we are all living well to 120 or more. Dr. Sinclair takes what
we have long accepted as the limits of human potential and
mortality and turns them into choices. THE EVOLUTION OF AGEING is
destined to be the biggest book on genes, biology, and longevity of
this decade.
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