Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever

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Chapter 1: You Can Live Long Enough To Live Forever
Immortality is within our grasp. The knowledge exists, if aggressively applied, for you to slow aging and disease processes to such a degree that you can be in good health and good spirit when the more radical life-extending and life-enhancing technologie

Chapter 15: The New Understanding: Most Heart Attacks Are Caused By Vulnerable Plaque and Inflammation
Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women. About 68 million Americans have heart disease, and more than a million suffer heart attacks each year, 40 percent of them fatal. But there has been a recent revolution in our understanding of

Chapter 16: Prevention of Cancer
Let's move now from early detection and determination of genetic risk to cancer prevention. An effective program for avoiding cancer in the first place entails diet and nutrition, lifestyle modification, and chemoprevention. Diet and Nutrition.

One of the most respected scientists and futurists in America teams up with an expert on human longevity to show how we can tap today's revolution in biotechnology and nanotechnology to virtually live forever.

Startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology are occuring every day. The rewards of this research, some of it as spectacular as what was once thought to be science fiction, are practically in our grasp. Soon, for example, it will be feasible for 10% of our red blood cells to be replaced by artificial cells, radically extending our life expectancy and enhancing our physical and even mental abilities beyond what is humanly possible today. In Fantastic Voyage, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D., will show us how amazingly advanced we are in our medical technology, and how we can use technology to live as long as we dare.

It is possible to prevent nearly 90% of the diseases that kill us. The authors take the reader on a fantastic journey to undreamed-of vitality with a comprehensive investigation into the cutting-edge science on diet, metabolism, genetics, toxins and detoxification, the hormones involved with aging and youth. By following their program, which includes such simple recommendations as drinking alkaline water and taking specific nutritional supplements to enhance your immune system and slow the aging process on a cellular level, anyone will be able to immediately add years of healthy, active living to their life.

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists. Called "the restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine. Kurzweil's ideas on the future have been touted by his many fans, who range from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton. Time magazine writes, "Kurzweil's eclectic career and propensity of combining science with practical - often humanitarian - applications have inspired comparisons with Thomas Edison.

Terry Grossman, M.D., is the founder and medical director of Frontier Medical Institute in Denver, Colorado, a leading longevity clinic. certified in anti-aging medicine, he lectures internationally on longevity and anti-aging strategies. In the words of Arline Brecher, coauthor of Forty Something Forever, "I've met good writers and good doctors, but seldom are they one and the same.

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