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You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (You) (Paperback)
by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
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Filled with signature YOU Tools, including YOU Tests, YOU Tips, and visual and verbal metaphors to bring the science to life, this book, often regarded the best health book for babyboomers, is your bible for staying fit and young.
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Author: Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
Publisher: Free Press
Pub. in: October, 2007
ISBN: 0743292561
Pages: 432
Measurements: 9.2 x 7.6 x 1.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA12006
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0743292566
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller and a bestseller on Amazon.com. |
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Many people believe they cannot prevent the physical and mental decline associated with old age. Not true. As you age chronologically, you can "reprogram" your body and its vital systems, so that you stay relatively young, biologically. Doctors Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, experts on the aging process, explain how. Their helpful guide on reversing the damage of aging is packed with fascinating information about how your body works. It details how to enjoy a healthy, physically vibrant life well into old age. Two minor drawbacks: The writing style and layout can get way too cutesy, and many of the cartoonish line-drawings are just plain gross, depicting internal organs with smiley faces, and creepy liver-spotted characters drenched in icky goo. Otherwise, getAbstract applauds this down-to-earth, fact-filled, comprehensive guide to diet, nutrition, exercise, health and maintaining physical youth. Read it to learn how to turn back your biological clock. If you want to make staying young your new hobby, this is your user's manual.
(From quoting Rolf Dobelli, USA)
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Questions for the Doctors
Q: What is the single most important thing someone can do to combat aging?
A: To understand that you get to control your rate of aging if you want to. It isn't that hard and doesn't take that long. In fact, even if you have had burgers for breakfast or fried your brain cells with stress by noon, you're not necessarily destined to wear husky pants, forget birthdays, and spiral into a state of complete upheaval. That's right: You get a do-over in life if you want it. Repeat after us: not hard, not long.
Q: Is there one food, vitamin, mineral, exercise, or lifestyle change that does more to combat aging than any other?
A: Our top choices in terms of ease and impact:
Walk 30 minutes a day and call someone after you do it. No excuses, walk every day. If you do it, you'll have the courage, health, and attitude to adopt other changes too.
Take 2 grams of omega-3 fats every day in form of either walnuts, fish oil, or DHA supplements.
Q: What is one of the most surprising contributors to aging that we can easily remove from our lifestyles?
A: Inflammation of our teeth. Remove it with daily flossing and brushing and seeing a dental professional regularly. You won't just save your teeth; you'll also go a long way in saving your heart and arteries. Another? Our lack of turmeric--curry and mustard (mustard on stadium hot dogs does not qualify). Both of those ingredients make your memory better.
Q: What are some of the immediate benefits you will notice from following the tips in the book?
A: You will feel younger. You might get hit upon by strangers or be mistaken for someone 20 years younger. In addition to the waist size you'll lose, your new attitude and vitality for life may give your reading choice away.
Q: How early should most people start to focus on slowing the aging process?
A: The aging process starts in your teens or even before, but any time you start is better than later. (Repeat: not hard, not long.) Your cells basically have a memory of three years. So by changing your habits now, within three years, it's as if you have done your healthy habit all your life.
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Highly recommended for all adult men and women. Also a highly recommended gift for men over 30.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a highly respected cardiovascular surgeon, is the director of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center's mechanical heart-pump program and is cofounder and director of the hospital's breakthrough Complementary Care Center. As part of the innovative surgical team at Columbia-Presbyterian, he also helped to develop the left ventricular assist device (LVAD), a complex, high-tech artificial heart that keeps patients alive while waiting for a heart transplant. Dr. Oz recently won the 1998 Books for a Better Life award. As a native of Turkey, he sees himself as a bridge between the healing ways of the West and East. He lives in New York City.
Michael F. Roizen, M.D., created the RealAge concept. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling first edition of RealAge®: Are You As Young As You Can Be? and is the coauthor, with Dr. Mehmet Oz, of the #1 New York Times bestseller You: The Owner's Manual. He is chair of the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Comprehensive Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic.
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From Publisher
The body is the most fascinating machine ever created, and nobody talks about it in ways that are as illuminating and compelling as Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Most people think of the aging of our bodies the same way we think of the aging of our cars: the older we get, the more inevitable it is that we're going to break down. Most of us believe that at age 40 or so, we begin the slow and steady decline of our minds, our eyes, our ears, our joints, our arteries, our libido, and every other system that affects the quality of life (and how long we live it). But according to Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz, that's a mistake.
Aging isn't a decline in our systems. It's actually very purposeful. The very systems and biological processes that age us are designed to help us when we're a little bit younger. So what's our role as part of the aging population? To learn how those systems work so we can reprogram them to work the way they did when we were younger. Your goal should be: die young at any age. That means you live a high quality of life (with everything from working joints to working genitals) until the day you die.
At the core of this landmark book are the Major Agers - 14 biological processes that control your rate of aging. Some you've heard of, some you haven't, and some you never knew contributed to the aging process. Some speed decline, others inhibit your repair mechanisms. These Major Agers are everything from short telomeres and inefficient mitochondria to stem cells and wacky hormones. The doctors explain the principles of longevity and many of the causes of aging and how to fight the effects. The climax of the book is a 14-day plan to help you along your path to staying young. The doctors want you to be able to integrate important processes into your daily life in order to make staying young routine, but first you'll need to measure your real age and health right now. Staying young encompasses your emotions and mental health as well as your exercise habits, eating habits, personal hygiene, and genes, among other things.
Wouldn't you like to know how to prevent your body from aging badly? The original YOU book showed how bodies work in general, and YOU: On a Diet explained how bodies lose weight and stay fit. Now in YOU: Staying Young, Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz illuminate the mysterious mechanisms with a lively metaphor -- the modern city. What differentiates a vibrant and thriving city that ages gracefully from one that is worn down and rusted out? Despite genetic differences, which are like the geography upon which the city is built, cities age differently because of the way residents treat their education system (stem cells), power plants (mitochondria), electrical grids (brains), transportation routes (blood vessels), and landfills (fat). You - as mayor, resident, and street cleaner - have the power to balance your biological budget to ensure a life that's both long and strong. Thankfully, just as cities can invest in renewal and improving their repair processes, so can you.
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Chapter 1
Develop a Memorable Memory
Our brains sure do have a way of messing with our minds.
One moment, you can be spitting out the names of your entire third-grade class, the batting statistics from the 1974 St. Louis Cardinals, the color dress you wore to the eighth-grade Sadie Hawkins Day dance, or the entire script from your favorite Seinfeld episode. The next minute, you space on the name of your cat.
Call them what you want -- senior moments, doomsday to dementia -- but the truth is that we all experience these neurological hiccups as we age. And we all wonder exactly what they mean. Some of us write them off to stress, fatigue, or some kind of neurological overload that's caused by the ogre who signs our paychecks, while others worry about whether a moment of forgetfulness means that we have a first-class ticket on the express train to Alzheimer's.
No matter what we may think causes our decline in mental acuity, most people share a pretty big assumption about our gray matter: Either our brains are genetically determined to be Ginsu sharp for the duration, or we're eventually going to live life putting on our underwear last. That is, we believe that our genes, the very first Major Ager, completely control our neurological destiny.
That simply isn't true.
While many diseases and conditions have genetic elements to them, memory conditions have some of the strongest genetic indicators. For example, a PET (positron-emission tomography) scan, which records images of the brain as it functions, reveals evidence of early Alzheimer's when it identifies that the brain is misusing energy. This abnormality is caused by illness of the mitochondria (more details on this Major Ager on page 48), which is genetically determined. But the truth is that even if your genes have decided to give you a life of serious forgetfulness, you do have the ability to control those genes so your mind is strong, your brain functions at full power, and you remember everything from the crucial details of your life to whether or not you turned off the oven - even when your birthday candles reach triple digits. Plus, we have lots of data from twin studies saying that less than 50 percent of memory is inherited, meaning that if you get a head start on the action steps we're going to cover, you can alter how your genes are expressed. In the end, genetics loads the gun, but your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Clearly, the brain is the most complex organ in your body. In fact, if the brain were simpler, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand it. But we are. Think of your brain as the city's electrical grid. Your brain's nerve cells, or neurons, are constantly firing and receiving messages in much the same way that power plants send signals and homes and businesses receive them. Power may originate from a main source, but the connections then branch out every which way throughout the city. Your brain functions the same way: Messages are sent from one neuron to another across your neurological grid. When those neurons successfully communicate with one another through the sending and receiving of neurological impulses, your brain can file away your memories.
But what happens when a storm, an accident, or a chainsaw-wielding hoodlum knocks out the power lines? You lose connections, so you lose power - maybe to a particular neighborhood or maybe to a large segment of the city, depending on which ones got fried. Same goes for your brain. If something knocks out those neural connections, then small or large parts of your brain can experience a blackout, and you freak because you can't remember that you left the car keys on the back of the toilet.
Certainly, many things can cause malfunctions in your neurological grid. Some are acute and immediate, like a concussion arising from a brain bruise. Others are more chronic, as in the case of a genetic malfunction that can cause your power lines to be rickety so they easily fritz out. These are the ones that we're mainly going to address here.
Your Memory: Don't Fuggedaboudit
Part of our job as doctors is to tell you things straight up, because when we don't tell the truth, people get hurt. No sugarcoating. No BS (that really stands for no bad science). No "Win One for the Gipper" speeches. When it comes to your brain, here's a fact that's harsher than a Buffalo winter: The research shows that, eventually, everyone in America will either get Alzheimer's or care for someone who has it.
In some way or another, we're all going to be affected by serious change-your-life memory problems. But the Gipper side of that statistic is this: Memory disorders aren't as uncontrollable as they seem, and the way to attack potential brain problems is by using your brain to understand them. For starters, here are some things you should know about your noggin:
We actually experience a mental decline a lot earlier than we realize. Memory loss starts at age sixteen and is relatively common by forty. One way you can see this is through research done on video game players. People start losing their hand-eye coordination and the ability to perform exceptionally well on video games after the age of twenty-five. The fascinating part of this research isn't that you'll rarely beat your kid in Mario Kart: Double Dash; it's that even if your brain knows what to do when presented with an animated hairpin turn at 135 mph, your brain can't fire those messages fast enough to your trigger-happy thumbs. There's a natural slowing of the connection - the power line - between your brain and your body.
Men and women not only differ when it comes to movie tastes and erogenous zones, but also differ when it comes to mental decline. Men usually lose their ability to solve complex problems as they age, while women often lose their ability to process information quickly. That split shows us a couple of things. One, that there's certainly a strong genetic component to memory loss. And, two, that there are specific actions you should be taking to combat that genetic disposition. While there are some places where you're naturally going to decline because of your sex, there are other areas where you're going to have an advantage. That means your job isn't only to try to rebuild the area that's breaking down but to preserve the areas that excel. But across the board, both genders lose competency in the areas in which they are weak to begin with. So women lose spatial cognition, and men suffer verbal losses. Though it's certainly not true for everyone, it may give you clues as to what areas of your brain to concentrate on as you age - or it may help you play to your strengths. (Those with poor memory recall can use organizational skills to compensate, for example.)
You don't have to have an elite brain to know that your three-pound organ has more power than a rocket booster. It controls everything from your emotions to your decision making, and it gives you the ability to understand why the baseball in Figure 11.1 on page 220 is pretty darn funny. But when we discuss memory loss, we're essentially focusing on three specific brain functions: sensory information (your ability to determine what information is important), short-term memory loss (quick, what's the title of this chapter?), and long-term memory loss (that's your bank of recipes, trivia, names, and every piece of information you've known, read, and stored during your life).
Whether you've seen it on the news, on TV shows, or within your own family, you know how dementia looks from the outside: People forget faces, names, where they live, and information that seems - to the rest of the world - so easy to remember. The most frequently seen problem: getting lost on a walk home. To really control your own genetic destiny, you need to take a look at what memory loss looks like on the inside. For the record, age-related memory loss is classified in several ways. Conditions such as Alzheimer's, dementia, and mild cognitive impairment are all technically different. For our purposes, we're tackling them all together as age-related memory problems because of the similarities in how they change people's lives...
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Andris Virsnieks (MSL quote), USA
<2008-03-16 00:00>
Widespread use of this manual would save hundreds of billions of dollars and that would make the idea of mandated health insurance ridiculous (perhaps this book should be mandated it would be much less expensive). If by some miracle everyone actually started to apply this manual and kept it up for decades the health care cost crisis would surly be solved. But in real life only a small number of readers will have the discipline and will power to effectively implement a rigorous program like this and gain the gift of a better life.
As an alternative to the rigorous exercise program that will be too time-consuming or boring for many, the doctors should have suggested developing a passion or even an obsession for golf, tennis or something like that that will take the focus away from food the sofa and television. And unlike a check-list type program people will keep it up for the long run. |
T. Corson (MSL quote), USA
<2008-03-16 00:00>
I found this book tremendously motivating. Although I've never been big on being healthy, at 41 I'm beginning to be a bit concerned with staying young. Essentially they are the same thing but marketing it as "staying young" instead of "staying healthy" caught my attention. In reality we all want to remain active and healthy throughout as many years as possible.
This book is written in a very simplistic way, yet with enough detail to give an understanding of what one should do to maintain good health for many years. It was easy to follow many of the recommendations because they told you not only what vitamins in what amounts, but also which foods contain these vitamins. As 110 lb. person who has never had to diet, I have always been resistant to giving up my fries and soda for a better diet. I liked that the authors didn't chide you about what NOT to eat but just told you what foods helped in various areas. It has inspired me to eat more of those foods, knowing that I'm not forever forbidden to enjoy the things I like to eat.
They also cover exercise, emotional health, etc. It appears to be a fairly complete look at all aspects of body and health. I highly recommend "You Staying Young" even if you don't intend to dive fully into all improvements. If your family is predisposed to certain illnesses, you will certainly find tips to encourage your own body NOT to express those genes and avoid the genetic predisposition. In general, there is just a lot of interesting information in here and it's not written like a boring medical text. The authors are funny, sometimes to the point of being a little corny, and it smooths the pathway to knowledge. |
Barry Parker (MSL quote), USA
<2008-03-16 00:00>
A very up-to-date and comprehensive book that covers all of the major things (or at least, most of them) that accelerate aging. It has several interesting and useful features such as: You test, You tips, You tools. There is little doubt that the book contains a considerable amount of valuable information and is a good addition to the literature on aging, but it does have a number of drawbacks or problems, which I will discuss later. The book begins with a chapter on memory; an interesting discussion of how to determine if forgetfulness is due to normal aging or Alzheimer's disease is given. This is something older people frequently worry about.
The heart and arterial system is discussed in considerable detail, and an explanation of how atherosclerosis develops is presented. There is an excellent section on stem cells, and with them being in the news so much lately it will no doubt be of considerable interest to people. The difference between embryonic and adult stem cells is explained, along with the role of stem cells in the body. One of the things they help is stress,and indeed, stress is also discussed in detail. The stress circuit is presented and explained, and suggestions are given for reducing stress.
The function and importance of the immune system is explained, along with the vagus nerve, but there is no discussion of the the vagus brake. An explanation of the initiation of cancer is given, and also a discussion of the problems associated with glycosylation.
There is a good, but brief, section on sleep. It deals mostly with the role of melatonin in the body, but it gives several tips for better sleep.
Now, back to the problems. First of all, it is filled with cartoon-like drawings and numerous boxes that are a distraction when trying to read the text. Most of the boxes are useful, but some of the larger cartoons (which usually take up a page) are little more than decoration. In places the writing is also a little odd in that phrases such as "Yup", "Hup to it," and so on are used; also the authors refer quite frequently to the SWAT team. A little of this is acceptable, but I think they go overboard.
A serious problem for me is that there is no bibliography in the back. Many readers might want to follow up on some of the topics, but there is no references whatsoever. Another slight problem is that I feel they use too much technical jargon for a popular book. Some technical words are okay, but they go too far for a popular book. Finally, some of the expanations are a little misleading, or perhaps I should say, "fuzzy." In the discussion of the immune system, for example, they fail to mention that there are two main divisions: the innate and adaptive. I think this is an oversight. Also, in their discussion of cancer they imply that scientists believe that all cancers are caused (or intiated) by the p53 suppressor gene. This is not true. And in their discussion of the capped foam cells in our arteries, they say the cap "explodes" (more exactly, "a big time supersonic explosion" occurs) because the blood supply to the foam cells is cut off. It is not the "cutting off" of the blood supply that causes this (see Sci. Am. May 2002, or internet article on Wikipedia "Vulnerable plaque.")
The book is perhaps best compared to Andrew Weil's book "Healthy aging." The two books cover many of the same topics, and Weil's book is also directed at a popular audience, but Weil's book seems like a much more serious book. It has no cartoon diagrams, but in many cases the explanations are clearer.
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