Radical Longevity

Nutrition is the foundation of this plan for healthier, more energetic later years, written by a New York Times bestselling author and health expert. Ann Louise Gittleman presents aging as something that can be approached differently, with the goal of staying resilient, lively and graceful.

The book explains how to clear out toxins and nutritional shortfalls that build up over a lifetime. Readers learn to address these problems through targeted foods, practical lifestyle adjustments, and compounds such as peptides and signaling molecules that support cellular renewal.

Gittleman draws on epigenetics, the study of how gene activity can change, to suggest ways of slowing and reversing several of the most troubling age-related conditions. The stated aim is to extend one's healthy years and support immunity, heart, brain, muscles, joints, skin, hair and sex drive. The approach rests on decades of the author's experience and research in age-defying and restorative medicine.