Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program [Hardcover]

Ph.D., Gary Null (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 1999

In this companion volume to the PBS special, real people offer moving testimonials detailing how their lives have been permanently changed by this highly personalized anti-aging program.

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With 50 books to his credit, Gary Null has long been an authority on alternative medicine. The host of the longest-running syndicated daily health radio program, Natural Living with Gary Null, he aims to set the record straight on the plethora of conflicting information about aging--and how to prevent its signs--with his Ultimate Anti-Aging Program.

He tested the program on a group of 1,000 volunteers, who give glowing testimonials about their experiences: "I can see a marked improvement in my mind, spirit, and body"; "Letting go of sugar has been great"; "I lost 20 pounds without dieting!" Null then explains the multipronged antiaging "protocol." First, he advises that you detoxify your body to prevent aging from free-radical damage; then, fortify your immune system with proper nutrition; and lastly, build bone mass (through diet and exercise) to prevent osteoporosis and weakness. This isn't a quick-fix program; it fills nearly 300 pages, with suggestions ranging from sealing off the vents from your garage to your house to drinking a gallon of purified water a day. Null also suggests a low-fat, organic diet, including herbs, nutrients, and other supplements (including acetyl-L-carnitine, phosphatidylserine, zinc, and many in between) that he says may extend life and that helped him run a 50K national championship. The final segment covers "mental gymnastics," including a self-quiz to analyze your value system, levels of anger and stress, and their potential detrimental effects on your health. This is a comprehensive health program, but one that requires a good deal of dedication.

From Library Journal

Though not a medical doctor, Null (Get Healthy Now) has authored many health books on subjects ranging from allergies to Native American healing. Central to this program is the author's conviction that aging results from the toxic effects of free radicals, molecules that have unpaired electrons that damage the body when they try to steal electrons from other cells. Eliminating or reducing toxins and stress from one's diet and environment can lessen the number of free radicals and thus slow, and even reverse, the aging process. Null advocates an exercise program and an organic vegetarian diet in conjunction with herb and vitamin supplements to detoxify the body. Lacking in both scientific data to support many of his claims and step-by-step directions to implement them, Null's "program," narrated by Robert Deyan, is mostly a description of the possible ways to treat a copious number of medical conditions. Also, an annotated listing of the supposed medical benefits of various natural substances and treatments, included on the last two tapes, is quite unsuitable for audio. Not recommended.
-Beth Farrell, Portage Cty. Dist. Lib., OH
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 498 pages
• Publisher: Kensington; 1st edition (February 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575664097
• ISBN-13: 978-1575664095
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,104,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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83 of 85 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I Love Gary Null, but..., November 28, 2000

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Marcus T. Brody (Tampa Bay, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program (Paperback)

Gary Null is a very intelligent man. His radio program is fantastic, and he is a walking encyclopedia of information. I am amazed at how much information he has on such a variety of topics from nutrition, to politics, to even sports.

With that said, let's get to the review.. I too purchased this book after seeing his show on PBS. I had already known Gary, and had heard him talk on his radio program for years before the PBS special. I had decided to purchase the book at the local book store upon seeing the special because it was so convincing.

I got home, and dove right into the book. I was greatly disappointed at how disorganized this book is, as I am with a lot of Gary's books. He seems to big a HUGE fan of footnotes, and posting results from various trials and protocols from peer review journals. There is very little information in this book that actually teaches you how to Anti-Age.

Upon completion of the book, and getting nothing out of it, I thought I might have read it wrong, so I read it again. To my dismay, I was incorrect. This book is certainly not a wealth of information by any means, and you can get more out of listening to Gary's radio program for 10 minutes than you can get from reading this book from cover to cover.

97 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Null's book is a waste of time and money!, March 18, 2000

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mike (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program (Paperback)

Null's book is a complete waste of time and money. Instead of fulfilling the promise of the title with the "Ultimate Anti-Aging Program", Null simply regurgitates old vegetarian homilies. Null waste the entire first half of the book by telling us that he has developed a program, that everyone ages, but that his program will help you defeat the clock. He then fills nearly 80 pages with testimonials.

The second half of the book is supposed to give us the Program. It does nothing of the sort. Null fills page after page with the tired rhetoric of low fat, low sugar, low meat, low salt, low caffeine, and low dairy. When he discusses the specifics of vitamins and supplements, it's done in a form that renders the discussion useless. Null cites studies from various journals, then prints in bold type the particular supplement whose use the study is to have supported. The problem here is that for each supplement Null cites so many studies with so many different dose recommendations that the poor consumer's head is spinning. Under the B-Complex vitamins, Null cites over 30 studies and over a dozen different dose levels for B1 alone. These range from 10 mg/day as supported by a study about the Irish elderly with thiamin deficiency, to 200 mg/day he culled from a study about patients with chronic liver disease. He continues this foolishness for 80 pages!

The bottom line: Don't waste your time or your money with this book. Null simply assembles a warmed over collection of cliches that you've all read before. I only regret that I bought the book at an airport and, therefore, cannot return it until I fly through Detroit again.

48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time & money., September 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program (Paperback)

Like many of the reviewers, I bought this book after seeing Null on PBS and had really high hopes for it. It is horribly written, disorganized, contradictory and he never really lays out the "program". The actual program section is 8 whole pages long and doesn't go into nearly enough specifics.

A cornerstone of the program is to drink lots of vegatable juice, but he doesn't specify what vegatables. In the program section he says to cook with olive oil and yet three pages later in the detoxification section he says to only cook using macadamia nut oil. His vitamin/mineral/herb recommendation tables are bizarre and difficult to understand, with each table in a different format.

At the back of the book he lists a "general sampling" of the peer review journal articles. Would someone teach Gary how to properly footnote and write a bibliography. Assuming for a second that all the citing he does is actually correct, having a proper footnote would strengthen his claims greatly.

Way too much of this book is spent in listing testimonials, both supposed users of the program as well as Gary himself. He sure likes to write about himself and how healthy he is. By the way, just what marathon did he win a gold medal in, "Mom & Pop Null's Backyard Barbeque and Marathon"?