The RealAge Makeover: Take Years off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life
by Michael F. Roizen
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Author: Michael F. RoizenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04
ISBN: 0060196823
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: William Morrow
Book Reviews of The RealAge Makeover: Take Years off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life
Book Review: How to increase the Quality and Quantity of your life!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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"I care passionately about people's health and well-being. As a doctor, I find it enormously satisfying to help people overcome illness, disease, and disability. And, of course, nothing is more meaningful than actually saving a life. At the same time, life as a doctor can have its darker side. As a specialist in both cardiovascular anesthesiology and internal medicine, I spend much of my working life with patients who are among the sickest of the sick...The physical and emotional distress I witness is made even more painful by the knowledge that so much of my patients' suffering could have been prevented."
This is how the preface to this book, by Dr. Michael Roizen, begins. This is a book about prevention, how to substantially reduce your chances of becoming "the sickest of the sick."
For those familiar with the prevention literature, much of what Roizen presents is not new but there is some new stuff (at least, new to me). However, a unique feature is that when Roizen states a prevention health tip, he also indicates how many years younger or older you will become (with respect to your true or calendar age). Some examples:
(1) Floss and brush your teeth daily. Benefit: As much as 6.4 years younger.
(2) Drink alcohol in moderation. Benefit: 1.9 years younger.
(3) Not avoiding "passive" smoke. Benefit: 6.9 years older (for those exposed to 4 hours a day or more of passive smoking).
(4) Eat breakfast daily. Benefit: 1.1 years younger.
(5) Learn a new game that requires intelligence. Benefit: 1.3 years younger.
My favorite chapters are subtitled as follows:
(1) Reverse arterial aging: the easiest, fastest way to gain energy.
(2) Your personal bodyguard against disease.
(3) The #1 most important way to grow younger.
(4) How to reduce stress, look younger, and get measurable results.
(5) Five habits that can give you more energy.
You are not expected to apply all the health tips (if you do you can gain up to 29 years!). Choose those that you feel you can manage and fit effectively into your lifestyle.
Finally, there are two things that Roizen states that I feel require some caution:
First, he states to keep your immunizations up-to-date and he gives a very brief discussion as to why. Immunizations are very controversial and I suggest before taking his advice, to do some research on them.
Second, he advocates taking a well-known, over-the-counter drug daily. A very smart doctor once said, "Every drug stresses and hurts your body in some way." Thus, I would be very, very careful with this recommendation.
In conclusion, for those that what to increase the quantity and quality of their life, this is the book to get!!!
(first published 2004; preface; 13 chapters; main narrative 475 pages; references; index)
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Summary of The RealAge Makeover: Take Years off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life
Why not live at 60 feeling like you did at 35?
Thousands of Americans are younger today than they were five years ago. How is that possible? By following the specific recommendations that reverse aging in Dr. Michael Roizen's bestselling book RealAge®: Are You As Young As You Can Be?, people who were previously much older than their chronological age have now taken up to twentynine years off their biological ages. Since that first publication, more than 10 million people have taken the RealAge® test in one form or another, and thousands of people have thanked Dr. Roizen for helping them make simple changes in their lives -- changes that have made them healthier, younger, and more vibrant.
In the last several years, Dr. Roizen and his team have learned much more about the aging process. The RealAge® Makeover makes sense of recent critical medical findings -- mportant new research on inflammation in your arteries, stress reduction, chronic disease management, hormone replacement therapy, and other choices you can make to keep aging at a distance. You?ll also find the latest on vitamins and other supplements, which are age-reducing, which are aging, and which ones to avoid if you are taking certain medications. Roizen then offers more than seventy ways to reduce or even prevent 80 percent of the diseases that make you feel older. For example, coffee or the right kind of chocolate in moderate amounts can help reduce inflammation, preserving your arteries, joints, and memory. But the wrong choice can lead to needless aging and loss of energy, such as taking too much Vitamin A. And The RealAge® Makeover tells you how much (in years) each choice is worth so you can make the choices that are meaningful to you.
More potent than any statistic or finding are the personal stories interwoven throughout -- success stories from readers who followed the RealAge program, became biologically younger, and are living happier, healthier lives. With this book, readers have more opportunity than ever to turn back their biological clock to look, feel, and actually be many years younger.
Join the RealAge® Revolution and give yourself a RealAge® Makeover!
Dr. Michael Roizen hopes to discover a cure for the common birthday. The author of the bestselling book RealAge and Oprah guru, Roizen translates groundbreaking medical research into a series of calculations and choices that promise to reduce age-linked symptoms and diseases. The RealAge Makeover begins with a self-test of 132 health factor questions that compare your calendar age with your "real age"--based on healthy habits plus heredity, he rounds up the usual suspects (sun exposure, sleep patterns, good fats) as well as the unusual (the kind of chocolate you eat, the number of nagging unfinished tasks, your catsup consumption). Although Roizen flags heredity, he focuses on the three key factors of aging: arteries (heart attack, stroke, memory loss), immune systems (prostate and breast cancer), and environmental stresses (lung cancer, STDs). He offers a sliding scale of difficulty in his "younger every day suggestions." Whether talking about stress, diet, or disease, Roizen offers case examples and subtle and engaging strategies such as describing the role of living beyond your means in aging or the difference between "four-legged" and "no-leg fats." Readers looking for a quick fix will benefit less than those who follow the recommendations that require focus and commitment. As Baby Boomers age and books about turning back time increase, Roizen's will remain a standout. --Barbara Mackoff
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