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The Rejuvenation Solution: Age in Reverse--7 Proven Medical Breakthroughs That Prevent Disease and Make You Feel Years Younger
Be healthy, strong, and vital at any age with 7 proven discoveries that stop accelerated aging. Anyone can remain strong, flexible, and full of energy at every age with this comprehensive blueprint that controls and reverses the 7 major causes of aging by working on them synergistically.
While aging is inevitable, physical, mental, and spiritual decline doesn't have to be. With a focus on prevention instead of prescriptions, of empowering the patient to discover the body's own healing intellect, Dr. Willix offers a comprehensive plan that will completely revamp your health, making you look and feel years younger no matter what your age.
Dr. Robert Willix Jr. M.D., a board-certified cardiovascular surgeon from the University of Michigan Medical Center, pioneered open heart surgery in South Dakota in 1977. An avid athlete who competed in the Ironman World Championship, he spent his life researching the root causes of aging and integrative medical techniques that would halt the aging process in its tracks. Knowing that once his patients reached his surgery suite it was often too late to radically change their course, he left his surgical career behind to become a leading expert on natural healing techniques. While many physicians may not even know these latest developments, he distills cutting-edge research from many disciplines so that anyone can age-proof their health with these 7 keys:
Geroprotectors: These are the next-generation antioxidants—learn how to harness them through foods and supplements.
Inflammabots. Body-wide inflammation is known to be the source of nearly all diseases of aging, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease. Learn how to control inflammation for the long haul.
Hormone-Peptide Connection. Avoid age-related hormone decline by maintaining this delicate balance.
Telomerase Activators. Telomerase is The Energizer Bunny enzyme that keeps cells youthful. Discover how to keep your telomerase functioning optimally.
The Muscle of Youth. Exercise is one the best anti-aging medicines of this century if done correctly. Don't waste hours on a machine—learn how to rev up the powerful anti-aging gene known as FOXO.
Rejuvenation Nutrition. Rejuvenate your body from the inside out in visible and in medically measurable ways.
Age-Defying Stress Management. Learn how proper relaxation helps produce antioxidants, lowers the damage from oxidation, and lengthens telomeres.
You are in the driver's seat when it comes to your health--you can accelerate aging or you can put these habits into practice and decelerate aging starting today, enjoying abundant health and the many benefits it brings for many years to come.
While aging is inevitable, physical, mental, and spiritual decline doesn't have to be. With a focus on prevention instead of prescriptions, of empowering the patient to discover the body's own healing intellect, Dr. Willix offers a comprehensive plan that will completely revamp your health, making you look and feel years younger no matter what your age.
Dr. Robert Willix Jr. M.D., a board-certified cardiovascular surgeon from the University of Michigan Medical Center, pioneered open heart surgery in South Dakota in 1977. An avid athlete who competed in the Ironman World Championship, he spent his life researching the root causes of aging and integrative medical techniques that would halt the aging process in its tracks. Knowing that once his patients reached his surgery suite it was often too late to radically change their course, he left his surgical career behind to become a leading expert on natural healing techniques. While many physicians may not even know these latest developments, he distills cutting-edge research from many disciplines so that anyone can age-proof their health with these 7 keys:
Geroprotectors: These are the next-generation antioxidants—learn how to harness them through foods and supplements.
Inflammabots. Body-wide inflammation is known to be the source of nearly all diseases of aging, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease. Learn how to control inflammation for the long haul.
Hormone-Peptide Connection. Avoid age-related hormone decline by maintaining this delicate balance.
Telomerase Activators. Telomerase is The Energizer Bunny enzyme that keeps cells youthful. Discover how to keep your telomerase functioning optimally.
The Muscle of Youth. Exercise is one the best anti-aging medicines of this century if done correctly. Don't waste hours on a machine—learn how to rev up the powerful anti-aging gene known as FOXO.
Rejuvenation Nutrition. Rejuvenate your body from the inside out in visible and in medically measurable ways.
Age-Defying Stress Management. Learn how proper relaxation helps produce antioxidants, lowers the damage from oxidation, and lengthens telomeres.
You are in the driver's seat when it comes to your health--you can accelerate aging or you can put these habits into practice and decelerate aging starting today, enjoying abundant health and the many benefits it brings for many years to come.
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Published October 1, 2019
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December 30, 2019
This is a long, very thorough book by a former surgeon and practicing physician with many decades of experience. He has a lot of case histories about people whom he's healed through lifestyle changes even when they needed things like heart surgery, and clearly has quite a lot of experience. I was familiar with most of what he writes about like telomeres, antioxidants and the relationship between stress and health, though he includes quite a lot of information about cutting edge supplements. He also gets a little new age at times, especially towards the end, with information about spontaneous healing and what he calls the Apollo Factor.
Basically, he advocates switching mostly to a whole foods, vegan diet other than possibly including a few seafoods like salmon. He is against refined, processed foods like pasta, white rice, sugar (especially sugar), etc. and also considers gluten detrimental. He strongly recommends daily exercise and goes into what types are important (aerobic, flexibility, strength, etc.). Daily movement of at least 30 minutes is important for a long life and health no matter what your age or situation. He advocates for stress relief, meditation, yoga, etc., unplugging, slowing down, and taking quite a few supplements. He also recommends a lot of testing of various levels and some of the tests are rather new and expensive (measure the lengths of your telomeres to see your biologic age for about $300 for instance). He is also one of the many experts who is sounding the alarm about our overeating and the link between calorie restriction (fasting and also just lower calorie intake) and long life.
The author is in his 70's and still very healthy and active, running marathons and so on. He clearly is knowledgeable about this topic but his regimen may be difficult for many to follow. If you follow his advice it's pretty likely that you can reverse disease, get stronger and healthier, reduce chronic pain, lose weight and live longer (and delay "old age" for much longer). That said, few folks these days are probably willing to make all of his changes or live this lifestyle. I will probably adopt some of his recommendations and work harder at more daily exercise and more healthy foods, especially the 10 he recommends most. I already live by about 75% of his advice and have a very healthy lifestyle, but I do not plan to invest in all the supplements he recommends or to transition to the diet he recommends in full.
Another reviewer said Willix gives all the standard advice and I disagree with this. He goes into quite a lot of information that is not typical in health books like peptides, telomerase and geroprotectors. Many of the supplements he recommends are new to me. His core advice about diet, movement, sleep and stress are universal, though. He also provides a 90 day plan and also a very detailed 7 day plan with hour-by-hour recommendations for foods, exercise and activities.
I read a digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.
Basically, he advocates switching mostly to a whole foods, vegan diet other than possibly including a few seafoods like salmon. He is against refined, processed foods like pasta, white rice, sugar (especially sugar), etc. and also considers gluten detrimental. He strongly recommends daily exercise and goes into what types are important (aerobic, flexibility, strength, etc.). Daily movement of at least 30 minutes is important for a long life and health no matter what your age or situation. He advocates for stress relief, meditation, yoga, etc., unplugging, slowing down, and taking quite a few supplements. He also recommends a lot of testing of various levels and some of the tests are rather new and expensive (measure the lengths of your telomeres to see your biologic age for about $300 for instance). He is also one of the many experts who is sounding the alarm about our overeating and the link between calorie restriction (fasting and also just lower calorie intake) and long life.
The author is in his 70's and still very healthy and active, running marathons and so on. He clearly is knowledgeable about this topic but his regimen may be difficult for many to follow. If you follow his advice it's pretty likely that you can reverse disease, get stronger and healthier, reduce chronic pain, lose weight and live longer (and delay "old age" for much longer). That said, few folks these days are probably willing to make all of his changes or live this lifestyle. I will probably adopt some of his recommendations and work harder at more daily exercise and more healthy foods, especially the 10 he recommends most. I already live by about 75% of his advice and have a very healthy lifestyle, but I do not plan to invest in all the supplements he recommends or to transition to the diet he recommends in full.
Another reviewer said Willix gives all the standard advice and I disagree with this. He goes into quite a lot of information that is not typical in health books like peptides, telomerase and geroprotectors. Many of the supplements he recommends are new to me. His core advice about diet, movement, sleep and stress are universal, though. He also provides a 90 day plan and also a very detailed 7 day plan with hour-by-hour recommendations for foods, exercise and activities.
I read a digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.
July 3, 2020
I received a free copy of this ebook from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.
I am interested in reading about health and healthy living so I requested this from NetGalley and was approved. It is heavily focused on heart health as the author was once a cardiac surgeon. It is an engaging read and the author uses a lot of anecdotal data to support and provide examples for his ideas. There is some information that I have read in other sources regarding supplements like CoQ10 and the impact of sugar and gluten, etc. on inflammation in the body. Dr. Willix does advocate for a vegan, alcohol free, and almost raw food diet, which is a bit more than I am up for. The book is well written and the stories add a personal touch to keep it from being a dry informational text. He provides footnotes and sources for his data for those interested in pursuing some of his suggestions.
The Rejuvenation Solution would be a good read for someone who is already vegan or interested in making that change or someone who is exploring alternative medicines, such as Acupuncture and Ayurveda.
I am interested in reading about health and healthy living so I requested this from NetGalley and was approved. It is heavily focused on heart health as the author was once a cardiac surgeon. It is an engaging read and the author uses a lot of anecdotal data to support and provide examples for his ideas. There is some information that I have read in other sources regarding supplements like CoQ10 and the impact of sugar and gluten, etc. on inflammation in the body. Dr. Willix does advocate for a vegan, alcohol free, and almost raw food diet, which is a bit more than I am up for. The book is well written and the stories add a personal touch to keep it from being a dry informational text. He provides footnotes and sources for his data for those interested in pursuing some of his suggestions.
The Rejuvenation Solution would be a good read for someone who is already vegan or interested in making that change or someone who is exploring alternative medicines, such as Acupuncture and Ayurveda.
January 1, 2020
So from where I start yes vegan diet I can't do that I am more of meat person but these days I am balancing my chart with vegetable 2 days , meat 1 time, fish 1 time , pulses 2 time and other dairy products . So I can't go vegan . Next thing this book talks about raw vegan diet . I dnt my taste to be bland .
Another this author gave lot of information about vitamins supplements which is not for me . Other tips are similar like other like sleep . Etc
Another this author gave lot of information about vitamins supplements which is not for me . Other tips are similar like other like sleep . Etc
July 17, 2019
This book is interesting,but nothing earth shattering that you will learn. Some ideas are the same as in every book,but a couple ideas everyday people are unable to do.
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