Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs about Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

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Perhaps most importantly, this book provides practical suggestions on how to maximize the power of positive age beliefs, which can translate into tangible health benefits.

If you aren't sure if a comment is ageist, try substituting a different marginalized group for "old" and see if it sounds discriminatory. The often-surprising results of Levy's science offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. Please list any fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in or any close relationship with, at any time over the preceding 36 months, any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response.I found myself disagreeing with the notion that hospitals shouldn't prioritize the young over the old however this is a problem that exists purely because usually health care systems are capitalistic and therefore there's an ROI concept embedded in its functioning. Now if I had heard that (being a baby boomer and, hence, rebellious by nature), I would have just ignored silly advice from a clueless white male. Yes, there was passing mention of epigenetics, but more or less as a way of excusing the need to address that fish and vegetable diet.

As an integrative physician this book did not have alot of new information for me but there is a good discussion about agism in our society and how all ages in our culture are coming together to challenge it. She has published many articles, won numerous awards for her work and been cited widely across the media. Though it has worked out well for me, with that background I was very receptive to this excellent book about the effects and prevalence of ageism in our world. Esteemed Yale professor Dr Becca Levy is the world's leading expert and pioneer in the field of ageing.It's hard to see how her thesis helps when you spend almost all of your day lying in bed, probably in pain, barely able to speak. Positive, surprising and full of powerful, practical advice, As Old As You Think will dismantle commonly held assumptions about how we age and leave readers looking forward to - and no longer fearing - what the future holds. This book is not that, and in fact is not a book at all, but rather a cutesy Instagram motivational poster surrounded by 300 pages of nonsense. But to fill out a 300-page book, the author rolls out a repetitive series of anecdotes that she probably wanted to illustrate/humanize the data but instead dilutes her message. Progressives such as Ibram X Kendi and his ilk are out to dismantle tradional family roles and values.