Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach

904 Pages·1987·86.529 MB·English

by  Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw

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Practical
Approach
Scientific
AddingYears toYour Life
and Life to Your Years
by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw
Foreword by Harry Demopoulos, M.D.
Life Extension is an extraordinary
book written for lay persons,
scientists, and physicians by two
research scientists who have been
deeply involved in aging studies
for over a dozen years. In this
volume the authors tell you about
many aspects of aging: why you age
—
how aging works—how scientists
have been able to slow and even
partially reverse some aging mecha-
nisms and even double the life spans
of experimental animals—how you
can slow your own aging while
improving your current health,
mental abilities, sexual function and
pleasure; controlling your weight;
getting most of the benefits of
exercise in a few minutes per day;
reducing your risks of heart attacks,
strokes, and cancer; and reducing
your risks from smoking and
drinking, even if you don't quit.
The authors, moreover, provide sci-
entific evidence to support their
ideas about aging, including hun-
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WARNERBOOKS
AWarner Communications Company
Copyright © 1982 by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw
Part III, Chapter 10, copyright © 1980 by
Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw.
Part IV, Chapter 12, copyright © 1980 by
Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw.
Artwork/cartoons on pages 35, 599-607
©
copyright 1981 by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw.
All rights reserved.
Warner Books, Inc., 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10019.
AWarner Communications Company
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Printed in the United States of America
First printing: June 1982
10987 654
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Pearson, Durk, and Shaw, Sandy.
Life extension.
Includes index.
1. Health. 2. Longevity. I. Shaw, Sandy, joint
author. II. Title. [DNLM: 1.—Health. 2. LongeWvTity-
Popular works. 3. Nutrition Popular works. 120
P361L]
RA776.5.P34 613 80-27589
ISBN 0-446-51272-9 AACRl
Book design: H. Roberts Design
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to Dr. Denham Harman, originator of
the free radical theory of aging, whose papers first interested
us in this field
and
to Dr. Albert Hofmann, a visionary pharmaceutical chemist
who invented Hydergine® and a host of other modern won-
der drugs
and
to James Watson and Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winners, dis-
coverers of the structure (secret) of life.