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  • Age Later

  • Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity
  • By: Nir Barzilai, Toni Robino
  • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
  • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Age Later

By: Nir Barzilai, Toni Robino
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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Summary

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 50 through your 80s and 90s?

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 90s 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)

©2020 Nir Barzilai (P)2020 Macmillan Audio

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Some Great Snippets but Unclear Messages

Clearly great contacts, personal longevity networks and author’s long, varied history, and many snippets, yet overall it’s sometimes an unclear message without conviction - as always needing irrefutable proof which limits its practical side. Perhaps being braver on his ideas, with a practical longevity hat on, would have been stronger.

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Insightful with storyline

I appreciated how the author was willing to offer more insights of his research, what they were thinking, what challenges they faced, and how they go beyond, these besides the medical recommendations to stay sharp and in good shape.

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worthwhile, informative but take a pinch of salt

this book is definitely worth reading or listening to. it has some interesting up-to-date information. However I get the impression that the author has a bias towards things he has been working on. he does give a good impression for rigor and on several occasions shows a very balanced skeptical perspective which is very good but regarding his own projects and things he's worked on, maybe less so. Fair enough

I found the narrator mildly annoying. His interpretation of the text seemed a bit presumptuous, like overacting to me personally

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ok book

so the content is interesting, not a large part is actually practical in terms of what you can do, the reader is aweful, hard to listen to

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Greatly recommended

Narrator is pleasent to listen and book itself is packed with ton of interesting, scientific facts.

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