Chasing Life: New Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today

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Chapter 1: Beginning the Chase
For centuries, adventurers and scientists have pursued the dream of immortality. Today it appears it might actually be a reality... This is not an anti-aging book. It's a groundbreaking guide to functional aging-extending our healthy and active lives long

Chapter 1: Beginning the Chase : Part 2
As I traveled through Moscow and visited various laboratories and 'beauty clinics,' I realized that many prominent Russian citizens truly believe they have discovered something astounding, so much so that watchdog organizations overseeing the clinics

Chapter 1: Beginning the Chase : Part 3
In many ways, it is much easier to describe aging than to define it. The symptoms of aging are both subtle and obvious. We don't see or hear as well, our hair turns gray, our skin wrinkles, our reflexes slow, our mind becomes less sharp, our muscles

For centuries, adventurers and scientists have pursued the dream of immortality. Today it appears it might actually be a reality...

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.

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.

Sanjay Gupta, M.D., is a practicing neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital and associate chief of service at Grady Memorial Hospital. A columnist for TIME magazine and a chief medical correspondent at CNN, he lives in Atlanta, GA..

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