Life Is Long!: 50+ Ways to Help You Live a Little Bit Closer to Forever

by Karen Salmansohn

Overview

More than just a powerful longevity tool, this easy-to-read, research-backed guide will help you to boost your immunity and protect your overall health—while also giving you insights and tools to slow down the aging process.
 
Best-selling author and wellness expert Karen Salmansohn presents a witty, inspiring collection of the top 50+ tips for a long and healthy life, backed by a wide range of longevity research. You'll discover insights from the world’s Blue Zones (where people live extra long) and takeaways from fascinating studies on everything from coffee to fasting to hidden toxins. 
 
Distilling the latest science into longevity practices that are quick to read and jam-packed with playful humor, Life Is Long sheds light on intriguing questions like

   • what spice improves cardiovascular health as much as aerobic exercise?
   • how often should I stand up from my desk?
   • how can brushing my teeth improve my heart health?
   • how do I keep my chromosomes in good shape?
   • and more!

Full of clear, actionable advice, Life is Long is a phenomenal resource for improving your immune system, boosting mental clarity, feeling more energetic, slimming down & aging at your best!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399580710
Publisher:	Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date:	10/23/2018
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	131 MB
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About the Author

KAREN SALMANSOHN is a happiness and wellness expert who is the author of numerous best-selling self-improvement books like Instant Happy and How to Be Happy, Dammit, with more than one million copies sold. She has studied to be a yoga and meditation teacher at Ishta Yoga; founded the DO IT healthy eating program; been featured on the Today show, The View, CNN, and Fox News; served as a columnist for Oprah.com, Psychology Today, CNN, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Match, and Huffington Post; and been featured in the New York Times, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time, Marie Claire, Fast Company, InStyle, Self, ELLE, and the New Yorker.

Read an Excerpt

INTRODUCTION

Want to live to one hundred—and feel thirty? Me too!

I’m a late-in-life mom, and I want to be around to dance at my son’s wedding. With this in mind, I recently promised my son, Ari, that I’d do everything I can to live to one hundred.

Ari wanted me to live to two hundred, but I bargained him down to one hundred.

Ari accepted my counteroffer.

As a happiness and wellness expert, I’ve always been interested in living a healthy lifestyle. But after my vow to be a centenarian, I became particularly passionate about learning and practicing as many healthy habits as I could memorize and muster.

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What you hold in your hands is the handy, fast-paced, curated result of all the hours I put into researching the secrets of living both longer and younger. I wanted to snag two out of two. After all, I’m not simply interested in increasing my quantity of years on this planet; I also want to improve the quality of those years.

I’ve grouped the tips in this book into two buckets: body and mind. As it turns out, longevity is linked to not only physical health but also mental well-being! The first half of the book contains the body-focused tips (colored blue in the table of contents). The second half features the mind-focused tips (in a pretty teal color!).

Regardless of whatever your present age might be, I know the tools in this book will help you—because they’ve already helped me!* I definitely feel younger and more energetic. Friends, family, and coworkers also keep telling me that I don’t look (or act) my age.

I even fooled my blood lab into believing I’m younger.

I had my blood tested recently. Dr. Yaffe joked with me: “Karen, you have the Harvard of blood tests for someone your age!”

Meaning? My blood doesn’t look, feel, or act its age either.

I’d love to help your blood behave age-inappropriately as well. With this in mind, I’m excited to share all that I learned in my quest to live to one hundred plus!

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Karen Salmansohn:
"Salmansohn reminds us that in life, we are in charge of our own destiny. We have the power to overcome through gratitude, humor, and courage." —Tony Robbins

"Karen is an expert on psychological research studies to help you not only recover from the tough times, but also bounce back to an even higher level than your previous bests." —Tim Ferriss

"Karen's writing is like Paxil without the side effects. If you've been sucker-punched by life (in other words, if you're human), Karen gives you empowering, user-friendly tips to deal with it. The very act of reading her writing will make you feel happier." —A. J. Jacobs

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