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The Longevity Prescription: The 8 Proven Keys to a Long, Healthy Life

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I read "The Longevity Prescription" while on a summer trip with my family. As we made the rounds of the East Coast, we stayed with friends and family of many different ages - the youngest adults being in their mid-twenties and the eldest being 91! Everyone was interested in the book I was reading (Probably because I wouldn't stop talking about it!) because it offers information and advice that is relevant to any age, including children.

The Longevity Prescription: The 8 Proven Keys to a Long, Healthy Life outlines very clearly a number of simple and important lifestyles adjustments any person can make that will help them to have increased health and longevity. If you feel overwhelmed by how many new ideas seem to be promoted and pushed (magic berries! eat eggs! don't eat eggs!) by corporations who have crafted products to suit the latest fad, this is the book for you. The lifestyle adjustments are achievable and simple and the data that supports them is poignant and compelling. This work benefits from the culmination of Dr. Butler's career - spanning more than 45 years of research and expertise in the field of healthy aging.

The Longevity Prescription makes a wonderful companion to The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life, which is a more dense and policy-oriented book that focuses more on the macro level of longevity than the personal, micro one. If you're interested in the topic of longevity, but mostly from a "what's in it for me and those I care about" rather than "how do we change the world" perspective, than the "Longevity Prescription" is the better, lighter book by far!

The book itself was fun and easy to read with many interesting insights and gave me lots of fodder for conversations with people of every age on our trip. This will be the main gift we're handing out this holiday season!

This book claims to provide proven advice yet it contains no references. It has pages full of assertions yet no-where
we can check their origin or veracity. Some of the advice is odd, for example "Self-stimulation (masturbation) is healthy." Some is plain wrong, for example "The fats found in ... flax and fish oils contain monounsaturated fats...".In fact flax oil contains polyunsaturated alpha linolenic, while fish oils contain polyunsaturated eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic. Having spotted such errors it becomes essential to have references to check for more. I would not recommend this book.

Reading "The Longevity Perscription" is one of the best things you can do for yourself.
As you start to read "The Longevity Perscription" you are now starting on a better path to taking better care of yourself.

After reading the book, I was better able to focus on the 8 keys ( maintain mental vitality, essentail sleep, set stress aside, nuture you relationships, connect with your community, nutrition, exercise and prevention). By becoming a practicioner of those 8 keys, I am able to have a better quality of mental and physical health.

This book is promoting the awarness of the 8 key and to become a practioner of those key. This book in not promoting to be a fanatic.

Dr. Butler, I would like to "Thank you," for providing this very helpful information and for showing each reader of your book, there is a better way to secure a better quality of life and hopefully a longer life.

Each of these 8 keys are linked together and by improving one key, you will want to help improving the remaing 7 keys.

You have so much to gain from reading this book and process the very helpful information of concepts and ideas found in the "The Longevity Perscription."

Savor what you learn and apply from this book!

Enjoy.

Not much new here that I hadn't already read earlier. Plain vanilla good advice. It is good advice.

An must read for all who hope to remain healthy as they age. Remember, that aging begins at birth; we could all stand to follow Dr. Butler's wise prescriptions for healthy aging.

Should be on top of your reading list!