Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, Sexy, and Smart-Until You're 80 and Beyond

by Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge, Allan J. Hamilton MD (With)

Overview

Congratulations, you are about to get younger!
 
Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times bestselling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging—weakness, sore joints, bad balance—and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain—all the way down to the cellular level. The message is simple: Learn to train for the next third of your life, and you’ll have a ball.

 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781523507924
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/24/2019
Series:	Younger Next Year
Edition description:	Second Edition, Revised, 2nd Edition
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	38,415
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Chris Crowley is a former litigator (Davis Polk & Wardwell), the coauthor, with Henry S. Lodge, of the Younger Next Year books, and the coauthor, with Jen Sacheck, PhD, of Thinner This Year. Though in his eighties, he fully lives the life, skiing black diamonds and routinely doing fifty-mile bike rides. He and his wife live in Connecticut and New York City.

Henry S. Lodge, MD, FACP, headed a 20-doctor practice in Manhattan and was the Robert Burch Family Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.

Allan J. Hamilton, M.D., a Harvard-trained brain surgeon, is the Regents’ Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. He is also the author of The Scalpel and the Soul, Zen Mind, Zen Horse, and Lead with Your Heart. He lives near Tucson, Arizona.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
 
PART ONE: TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR BODY
 
Chapter One: The End of the World
 
Chapter Two: How’s Your Wife?
 
Chapter Three: The New Science of Aging
 
Chapter Four: Swimming Against the Tide
 
Chapter Five: The Biology of Growth and Decay:
 
Chapter Six: Life Is an Endurance Event: Train for It
 
Chapter Seven: The Biology of Exercise
 
Chapter Eight: The Heart of the Matter: Aerobics
 
Chapter Nine: The Kedging Trick
 
Chapter Ten: A World of Pain: Strength Training
 
Chapter Eleven: The Biology of Strength Training
 
Chapter Twelve: The Ugly Stick and Other Curiosities
 
Chapter Thirteen: Chasing the Iron Bunny
 
Chapter Fourteen: Don’t You Lose a Goddamn Pound!
 
Chapter Fifteen: The Biology of Nutrition: Thinner Next Year
 
Chapter Sixteen: “The Drink”
 
PART TWO: TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE
 
Chapter Seventeen: “Teddy Doesn’t Care!”
 
Chapter Eighteen: The Limbic Brain and the Biology of Emotion
 
Chapter Nineteen: Connect and Commit
 
Chapter Twenty: Things That Go Bump in the Morning: The New Sexual Life 284
 
Chapter Twenty-One: New Chapter on Brain Health by Chris Crowley
 
Chapter Twenty-Two: New Chapter on Brain Health by Allan J. Hamilton MD
 
Chapter Twenty-Three: Relentless Optimism
 
Appendix
 
Notes on Chapter Twenty-Two
 
Harry’s Rules
 
Author Notes
 
 

What People are Saying About This

Craig K. Kent

“An extraordinary book . . . it is easy to read, the science is right, and if one follows Henry Lodge’s and Chris Crowley’s recommendations, both mental and physical aging can be delayed. I wish my patients would follow their advice.”

Editorial Reviews

"Brain-rattling, irresistible, hilarious. If you're up for it...[this book] could change your life."
—The Washington Post

The Washington Post

One long, exuberant New Year’s resolution.

The New York Times