Chasing Life

This is not an anti-aging book. It's a groundbreaking guide to functional aging-extending our healthy and active lives longer than we may have ever thought possible. Practical immortality may now be within our grasp thanks to the cutting-edge scientific research and amazing medical breakthroughs that are coming at such astonishing speed we can hardly keep up. In CHASING LIFE, prominent neurosurgeon and medical journalist Sanjay Gupta, MD, blends dramatic accounts of amazing discoveries from around the world with essential advice on how you can apply them for optimal health and longevity. What Dr. Gupta has found is provocative and often even counterintuitive. For instance, did you know that the secret to living longer may not be about eating well, but about eating less? That those nutritional supplements you're taking might actually be a waste of your money? That one single exercise technique could be sufficient to prolong life? Dr. Gupta also predicts amazing scientific advances that are going to revolutionize our health-including application of stem cell therapy to make degenerative diseases only a bad memory, and advances in gene sequencing and nanotechnology that may totally transform the experience of aging in our lifetime. br In this life-changing book, Dr. Sanjay Gupta revolutionizes the way you think about aging-and reveals the secrets to helping you live a longer, healthier life for many years to come.