Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

by Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge

Overview

Turn back your biological clock. A breakthrough book for men--as much fun to read as it is persuasive--Younger Next Year draws on the very latest science of aging to show how men 50 or older can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, and continue to live like fifty-year-olds until well into their eighties. To enjoy life and be stronger, healthier, and more alert. To stave off 70% of the normal decay associated with aging (weakness, sore joints, apathy), and to eliminate over 50% of all illness and potential injuries. This is the real thing, a program that will work for anyone who decides to apply himself to "Harry's Rules."

Harry is Henry S. Lodge, M.D., a specialist in internal medicine and preventive healthcare. Chris Crowley is Harry's 70-year-old patient who's stronger today (and skiing better) than when he was 40. Together, in alternating chapters that are lively, sometimes outspoken, and always utterly convincing, they spell out Harry's Rules and the science behind them. The rules are deceptively simple: Exercise Six Days a Week. Eat What You Know You Should. Connect to Other People and Commit to Feeling Passionate About Something. The science, simplified and demystified, ranges from the molecular biology of growth and decay to how our bodies and minds evolved (and why they fare so poorly in our sedentary, all-feast no-famine culture). The result is nothing less than a paradigm shift in our view of aging.

Welcome to the next third of your life--train for it, and you'll have a ball.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761147732
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/10/2007
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	330
Sales rank:	265,029
Product dimensions:	5.13(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Chris Crowley is Dr. Lodge's 80-year-old patient—the relentless drum-beater for YOUNGER NEXT YEAR and the living proof that Harry’s Rules work: It is possible to turn back the biological clock.

Harry Lodge, a board-certified internist, is listed variously as "One of the Best Doctors in New York/America/the World." He heads a 20-doctor practice in Manhattan and is the Robert Burch Family Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical School. He is the co-author of the bestselling YOUNGER NEXT YEAR.

Table of Contents

Part One: Take Charge of Your Body
Chapter 1: The End of the World
Chapter 2: How’s Your Wife
Chapter 3: The New Science of Aging
Chapter 4: Swimming Against the Tide
Chapter 5: The Biology of Growth and Decay: Things That Go Bump in the Night
Chapter 6: Life is an Endurance Event: Train for It
Chapter 7: The Biology of Exercise
Chapter 8: The Heart of the Matter: Aerobics
Chapter 9: The Kedging Trick
Chapter 10: A World of Pain: Strength Training
Chapter 11: The Biology of Strength Training
Chapter 12: The Ugly Stick and Other Curiosities
Chapter 13: Chasing the Iron Bunny
Chapter 14: Don’t You Lose a Goddamn Pound!
Chapter 15: The Biology of Nutrition: Thinner Next Year
Chapter 16: “The Drink”

Part Two: Take Charge of Your Life
Chapter 17: “Teddy Doesn’t Care!”
Chapter 18: The Limbic Brain and the Biology of Emotion
Chapter 19: Connect and Commit
Chapter 20: Things That Go Bump in the Morning: The New Sexual Life
Chapter 21: Relentless Optimism

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“An extraordinary book . . . it is easy to read, the science is right, and if one follows Henry Lodge’s and Chris Crowley’s recommendations, both mental and physical aging can be delayed. I wish my patients would follow their advice.”
— K. Craig Kent, M.D., chief of vascular surgery, New York–Presbyterian Hospital

Editorial Reviews

“An extraordinary book . . . it is easy to read, the science is right, and if one follows Henry Lodge’s and Chris Crowley’s recommendations, both mental and physical aging can be delayed. I wish my patients would follow their advice.”
— K. Craig Kent, M.D., chief of vascular surgery, New York–Presbyterian Hospital

The New York Times

"Brain-rattling, irresistible, hilarious. If you're up for it...[this book] could change your life."
—The Washington Post

The Washington Post

“One of our highest recommendations so far on growing old gracefully . . . Dr. Lodge, a prominent M.D., focuses on developments in cellular and evolutionary biology. Crowley, his guinea pig, is a firm believer in Dr. Lodge’s science and very good at convincing the reader that, if you’re a fifty-year-old man, you’d be an idiot not to start following the rules as soon as possible. . . . Should be read avidly by anyone growing older as well as forward-thinking youngsters.”
— Kirkus Reports

From the Publisher