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You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (You) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
Publisher: Free Press
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.7 x 1.7
ISBN: 0743292561
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780743292566
ASIN: 0743292561
Publication Date: October 30, 2007
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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.PP 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.PP 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.PP 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 iYOU: On a Diet/i explained how bodies lose weight and stay fit. Now in iYOU: Staying Young/i, 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.PP iYOU: Staying Young/i is filled with signature YOU Tools, including YOU Tests, YOU Tips, and visual and verbal metaphors to bring the science to life.PP HR class=bucketDivider noShade SIZE=1 p align=left span class="h1"strongA Letter from Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz/strong/span p Dear Amazon Shoppers: p img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promos/a-plus/drs.roizen.oz.medium.jpg" border="0" align="right" Our books, iYOU: The Owner s Manual/i and iYOU: On a Diet/i, have become #1 Amazon and iNew York Times/i bestsellers, and we thank you. Many people have asked us questions about aging. We want you to know that the science in the last very few years has challenged the very perceptions of aging. p Most of us tend to have the same view of the way people age: As we grow older, we start losing things. We lose some hair, lose our minds, lose our balance, lose our eyesight, lose a little of this and a lot of that until we eventually wither away into a hunched-over senior who takes 3-inch steps and eats dinner at 4:00 pm. But to think that a life of frailty is an inevitable outcome of aging is a mistake. And the fact that we don't take control of it is because we have excuses. We live in a society where making excuses is as easy as making a sandwich. Nowhere is that more apparent than when it comes to your own health. The reason why we are frazzled with stress? Blame the boss. The reason why we are sick? Blame the sniffling kids. The reason why our society s waistbands are stretching and snapping at alarming rates? Blame Auntie's alfredo sauce. The top health excuse, however, revolves around the biggest four-letter word of them all, the GENE. We blame our genes for just about everything--for baldness, for fatness, for illness and for every other health-related problem we can think of. In our minds, that means that our mom, pop, and the rest of the family tree are all on the hook for the ultimate health question of them all--how long and how well we will live? p But that is exactly where more of us have it wrong. While we are certainly born with genes that help determine everything from our height to our risk of heart disease, we are making a monumental mistake by assuming that we can t control our genes--especially when it comes to aging. p Perhaps the best way to explain the dynamics of aging is to take a look at another complex system that is subjected to the same forces as your body: a city. Some cities remain beautiful and elegant in their old age, while younger ones may look worn down and beat-up. Now, every city has its own genetic code, just as you do. For a city, genes are geography; whether it's built on a river or whether it's located in a hot or cold climate, or whether it lies directly in a prevalent hurricane path. A city's geography can't change. But the city can adapt to the environment with earthquake-proof construction, with underground tunnels for walking in wintertime, or with strong levies. The adaptation the city makes to survive and to thrive is what is crucial to its vitality. p The same goes for you. p Just because you have been dealt a genetic hand that predisposes you to heart disease or diabetes or the wearing of pants as large as a parachute doesn't mean you can't mitigate the effects of those genes. One of the major things we will teach you is that while you can't change your genes, you can change whether they are turned on or off or how you express them. Just like a city, you can compensate elegantly if you understand your options. p For the first time in history, the medical world has uncovered many of the miraculous biologic processes that control how and why we age. Truth is, much of aging is actually in our control; with the power to nudge our biologic systems so that our unwanted genes can work in our favor--as long as you know what to do and how you are doing it. In iYOU: Staying Young/i, we translate the latest science (much of which wasn't available even three years ago) to help slow your rate of aging. You will learn 14 Major Agers, and dozens of action steps so that you can take control of those agers and your aging processes. p We hope you enjoy the cartoons, analogies, and jokes. But ultimately we hope you soak in the message: Your health is largely in your control. We dedicate the book to all who desire longer life so they can serve more. p Thanks very much, p Mike and Mehmet /p HR class=bucketDivider noShade SIZE=1 p align=left span class="h1"strongA Look Inside iYou: Staying Young/i/strong/span p Take a look inside iYou: Staying Young/i with these three excerpted charts, full of crucial, easy-to-digest information that you can start using today:p ul liFuel Your Fighters: One of the best ways to pump up your immune system is by eating the foods and getting the nutrients that have been shown to improve your natural defenses./li liYour Vital Supplements: The doctors' recommendations of pills and supplements that will make your body and mind stronger, healthier, and younger. It's best to get them from your diet, so consider these an insurance policy for an imperfect diet./li liMove Your Body: Most of your body parts become stronger when you use them. Take a glimpse at what you can and should do to make sure you're doing enough to prime your pumps./li /ul p HR class=bucketDivider noShade SIZE=1 p align=left span class="h1"strongQuestions for the Doctors/strong/span p strongQ:/strong What is the single most important thing someone can do to combat aging? p strongA:/strong 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. p strongQ:/strong Is there one food, vitamin, mineral, exercise, or lifestyle change that does more to combat aging than any other? p strongA:/strong Our top choices in terms of ease and impact:ul liWalk 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./li liTake 2 grams of omega-3 fats every day in form of either walnuts, fish oil, or DHA supplements./li /ul pstrongQ:/strong What is one of the most surprising contributors to aging that we can easily remove from our lifestyles? pstrongA:/strong 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. p strongQ:/strong What are some of the immediate benefits you will notice from following the tips in the book? p strongA:/strong 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. p strongQ:/strong How early should most people start to focus on slowing the aging process? p strongA:/strong 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. /p HR class=bucketDivider noShade SIZE=1 p align=left span class="h1"strong Getting to Know iYOU/i/strong/span p table width=100% cellpadding=4 tr align=center td width="20%"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743569385.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border=0briYOU: Staying Young/i [Audio CD] /td td width="20%"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000VZC4CG.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border=0briYOU: Staying Young/i Workout DVD /td td width="20%"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743292545.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border=0briYOU: On a Diet/i /td td width="20%"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743293010.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border=0briYOU: The Smart Patient/i /td td width="20%"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060765313.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border=0briYOU: The Owner's Manual/i /td /tr /table HR class=bucketDivider noShade SIZE=1 p align=left
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bcenterFrom the Authors of the #1 Bestselling IYOU: On A Diet/i and IYOU: On a Walk/i/center/bPWouldn't you like to know how to prevent your body from aging badly? Most of us believe that at age 40 or so, we begin the slow and steady decline of our minds and bodies. 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. Our role is to learn how those systems function 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.PAt the core of IYOU: Staying Young/i are the Major Agers -- 14 biological processes that control your rate of aging. Doctors Roizen and Oz explain the principles of longevity and many of the causes of aging and how to fight their effects. Also included in a printable PDF file is a 14-day plan to help you integrate important processes into your daily life in order to make staying young routine.PIYOU: Staying Young/i is filled with signature YOU Tools, including YOU tips and memorable metaphors to bring the science alive and help you understand the most fascinating machine ever created: the human body.
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 Excellent guide to aging process and what you can do about it November 16, 2008
Alonzo Hosford (Clinton, New Jersey United States)
I have worked on personal nutrition when my father introduced me to the Pritikin diet in the 1980's saving me from a life time of obesity and poor health. I took that first step into self empowered health and wellness. I have run with it through today modifying the methods as new information is introduced. All along the way I have encountered the signs of aging but much less than and with excellent health for my age group. Basically pain free and full of energy in my late 50's Continuing with that effort I started the Vemma and Verve! nutrition program [...] br / br /The book has confirmed much I have learned about nutrition and health in 20 years, probably while the authors were still in school or just starting out. br / br /Good parts of this book are the balance between the real technical facts and great illustrations and analogies. The book is divided by short interestingly written sections called the Major Agers. These illustrate succinctly major agers such oxidation, stem cell slowdown, toxins, calorie consumption, declining defenses, wear tear, UV radiation, wacky hormones and more. They set up what is happening to your body, why it happens. These are easy and motivational 2 - 4 page pieces. Then thinking of those sections as layers the filling in between are the details and steps you can take to help. You are giving the medical details in a way anyone can understand them. br / br /I write about nutrition and health [...] now after living it and glad to see the medical profession showing some signs of encouraging personal prevention. br / br /Read the book and learn to stay healthy and off of drugs as long as you can, hopefully such as depicted on the 16.1 illustration. br / br /Finally the book contains the "YOU Extended Warranty Plan" on page 313. You could skip the first 313 pages (but it would be a big mistake) and just start following it. I have been following many aspects of that plan over the last 20 years and it has worked. There are many new items in the book I have to fill in the gaps of my activities. br / br /You really need to look at Figure 16.1 on page 310 first before you read. Fix that image in your mind because that is the goal you want to work towards and you can do it. br / br /Doctors, READ THIS BOOK! and start advising patients about nutritional easy to comply mineral, vitamin and anti-oxidant supplements they can take to aid their wellness.
A lot of great information on the aging process and prevention 5 STARS no question October 23, 2008
BOOK CLUB MANIA (PALM BEACH, FLORIDA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lot of great information on the aging process and prevention 5 STARS no question
YOU Staying Young October 21, 2008
Mr. Donald L. Madden
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a special book. Lots of information to stay healthy and not age so fast.
book review October 18, 2008
Christine Abernathy (Locust Grove, GA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wonderful book! Great info on staying healthy. Dr. Oz can be seen on the Oprah show sometimes.
Great Reading! September 30, 2008
S. Phillips (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just started reading this book and it has me hooked. I have a feeling I'm going to learn a lot about keeping young and to do it in a healthy way. I saw this book reviewed on TV and knew it was for me. Take a chance and improve your health and lifestyle.
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