Longevity: Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide

by Ferre Akbarpour and W. Lee Cowden

Book Overview

A guide to how to use alternative medicine to live a longer and healthier life. It includes a guide to anti-ageing supplements and superfoods, tells how to revitalise your immune system, gives... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887299289
• ISBN13: 9781887299282
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Alternativemedicine.com Books
• Length: 441 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Longevity: An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide

We don't have to develop diseases or lose our mental faculties as we age. Deterioration is not inevitable, according to W. Lee Cowden, M.D., Ferre Akbarpour, M.D., Russ DiCarlo, and Burton Goldberg. They explain why in Longevity: An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide. They maintain that many conditions connected with old age are the cumulative effects of lifestyle habits rather than a natural part of aging. Their emphasis is on the quality of later years and continuing good health, rather than in merely increasing the number of years lived. Their goal is to "show you how to `age well' using safe, noninvasive alternative therapies." Aging well involves "improving nutrition, reducing stress, detoxifying the body, boosting immune function, balancing hormones, and rebuilding brain power." These are all practices that improve health regardless of age, but are of particular importance as the body grows older. The authors begin by explaining the changes the body and mind undergo as the years pass. They then detail how readers can develop their own longevity program, customized to their individual body chemistry. Following that is an extensive discussion of the aging factors and how to modify lifestyle habits to minimize the effects of each. Many pages have "quick definitions" in boxes, so that readers don't have to interrupt their reading to looking up the meanings of specialized terms. Whenever a particular test or medical procedure is mentioned, contact sources are provided in the margins. Cross references are also provided when a subject is discussed elsewhere in the book. Longevity shows "you how to develop your own personalized longevity program, one which takes into account your biochemical uniqueness and goals [and] help you develop an `owner's manual' for your body, allowing you to slow the aging process, to increase your life expectancy, your health span, and your quality of life." Readers interested in avoiding deteriorating health in their golden years will find it an essential reference.