Download or read book Extreme Longevity written by Karen Latchana Kenney and published by Twenty-First Century Books (Tm). This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some creatures can outlive humans by centuries. Readers will learn about these extreme examples of longevity in the animal kingdom, how aging happens, and what genes help animals to live so long"--

Download or read book Models for Extreme Longevity written by Anthony Medford and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maximum Healthspan Mind Body Approach to Extreme Longevity A Mid Life Guide written by Jim Warnick and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exceptional Longevity written by Bernard Jeune and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States that the number of genuine long-livers is exploding and a substantial proportion of new-borns in developed countries may survive to celebrate their 100th birthday. This book examines the storied realms of exceptional longevity.

Download or read book Extreme Longevity First Edition written by Michael Ten and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book I am attempting to explain in significant detail how we can hasten the defeat of aging using social media. For every day by which we hasten the defeat of aging, we save 100,000 lives. For every year by which we hasten the defeat of aging, we save 36,500,000 lives. Do not forget this. I could wait longer to publish this book. This book is not perfect, but I think it is better to release information often. Nothing will be perfect. This book is about hastening the defeat of aging and sparking a war against aging. Thank you in advance for reading it.

Download or read book Validation of Exceptional Longevity written by Bernard Jeune and published by University Press of Southern Denmark. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While not quite on a par with Mel Brooks' 2,000 Year-Old Man, this volume reports on some folks who've been around for a long time. Contributors to 15 papers indicate that such longevity rarely existed prior to the 19th century. Appends statistical data on predicting age distribution, and documentation of a family's exceptional longevity. Lacks an index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Longevity To the Limits and Beyond written by Jean-Marie Robine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why longevity? For a number of years, the Fondation IPSEN has been devoting considerable effort to the various aspects of ageing, not only to age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, but also to the Centenarians, the paragon of positive ageing. The logical continuation of this approach is to address the question of longevity in global terms. Behind the extreme values, what span is accessible to all of us and likely to directly concern most of our contemporaries? The individual and col lective increase in the duration of life is one of the most striking phenomena of our time. It could be one of the most significant events in the "bio-social" history of humanity. The increase in life expectancy at old age, which started a few de cades ago only, is going on. The most well-advised observer had not foreseen or even dared hope for this increase which will drastically affect our everyday life, our habits and our behavior. In the fragment of human history we are living in, it is our responsibility to deal with this major transformation for the species. Such a transformation needs an effort from all to adapt to the new conditions. This transformation has to be managed rather than simply experienced, anticip ated rather than followed, in order to avoid any attempt to pervert this major step forward. All that was present during the first symposium of the new series on longevity of the Colloques Medecine et Recherche convened by the Fondation IPSEN.

Download or read book Centenarians Autobiographies written by Mita Banerjee and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the intersection between medical humanities, aging studies, autobiographical studies, disability studies and ethic studies, this book explores the fascination of centenarians' autobiographies for humanites research. It can be argued that the growing presence of centenarians' autobiographies on book markets across the globe may by rooted in the public's desire for positive images of aging, in contrast to the image of inevitable decay.

Download or read book Living to 100 written by Thomas T. Perls and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centenarians, once considered a rarity, are the world's fastest growing age group: with over 50,000 in the United States alone, the number has tripled since 1980. What can we learn from these pioneers? How can younger people apply the centenarian's longevity lessons to their own lives? These are the questions two acclaimed Harvard Medical School researchers set out to answer when they launched the New England Centenarian Study (NECS). Now the results of the NECS -- widely hailed in the scientific and medical press -- are available for the first time to readers everywhere.

Download or read book The Quest for Immortality Science at the Frontiers of Aging written by Bruce A. Carnes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-07-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is by far the best book I've read on the science of aging."—Andrew Weil, M.D. "Life-span Truth Will Set You Free from Age-old Worries," announced the Chicago Tribune upon the first publication of this book. The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed, "For readers interested in aging and longevity, this small book clearly explains the major concepts...extremely enjoyable to read." From NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw to Scientific American to the New York Times, S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes have stirred up controversy and brought clarity to an issue often muddled by exaggeration and pseudoscience. Medical science has uncovered a host of answers to the problems of aging, but many of the most exciting discoveries are buried in scientific journals or overshadowed by popular quick-fix treatments. The Quest for Immortality explains the real science of aging and shows which treatments offered by today's multi-billion-dollar anti-aging industries offer real hope, and which are a waste of money and time.

Download or read book Brain Longevity written by Dharma Singh Khalsa and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Andrew Weil's bestseller Spontaneous Healing, this is a physician's breakthrough medical program for the brain designed to diminish the effect of memory impairment caused by stress, aging, and Alzheimer's disease. As we grow older and experience the stresses of life, at about age 40 many of us begin to have trouble remembering things, concentrating, and generally staying mentally sharp. This book contains a four-part program including nutritional, stress-relieving, pharmacological, and mind-body exercise therapies to help people overcome the undesirable effects of normal brain "aging". By controlling cortisol, a hormone that is toxic to the brain and present in excessive levels as we age, Dr. Khalsa's plan can help improve memory and emotional zest. This is the first book to: Describe a program that may diminish age-associated memory impairment Feature a clinical method that can promote memory functioning impaired by Alzheimer's disease Detail the physical damage done to the brain by stress, how it adversely affects memory and our other mental abilities, and what can be done about it.

Download or read book Supercentenarians written by Heiner Maier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The International Database on Longevity (IDL) is the result of this ongoing effort. The IDL contains exhaustive information on validated cases of supercentenarians (people 110 years and older) and allows unbiased estimates of mortality after age 110. The main finding is remarkable: human mortality after age 110 is flat at a probability of death of 50% per year. The sixteen chapters of this book discuss age validation of exceptional longevity, data on supercentenarians in a series of countries, structure and contents of the IDL, and statistical analysis of human mortality after age 110. Several chapters include short accounts of specific supercentenarians that add life to demographic research.

Download or read book Longevity written by James R. Carey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite our deep interest in mortality, little is known about why some individuals live to middle age and others to extreme old age. Life span, mortality, and aging present some of the most profound mysteries in biology. In Longevity, James Carey draws on unprecedented data to develop a biological and demographic framework for identifying the key factors that govern aging, life span, and mortality in humans and other animals. Carey presents the results of a monumental, twelve-year, National Institute on Aging-funded research project on the determinants of longevity using data from the life tables of five million Mediterranean fruit flies, the most comprehensive set of life table studies ever on the mortality dynamics of a single species. He interprets the fruit fly data within the context of human aging and the aging process in general to identify the determinants of mortality. Three key themes emerge: the absence of species-specific life span limits, the context-specific nature of the mortality rate, and biodemographic linkages between longevity and reproduction. A powerful foundation for the emerging field of biodemography and a rich framework for considering the future of human life span, Longevity will be an indispensable resource for readers from a range of fields including population biology, demography, gerontology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and medical research.

Download or read book The Big 100 written by WILLIAM J. KOLE and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repackaged To Highlight the Book's Promise: . New Year, New You: Repackaged for the annual New Year's marketing campaign. Includes A Solutions Oriented Through-Line:"The Methuselah Effect '' will upend health care, personal finance, retirement, politics, and more. Kole canvases experts on what we can do to optimize our odds of living lives that are not only not just longer, but also better. Hardcover Reviews, Marketing, and Publicity Success: , and more. Penetrates Today's Eye-Opening Statistics and Predictions About Aging: Half of today's 5-year-olds can expect to reach 100. Billions worldwide will at least live deep into their 80s and 90s. Today, there are more than 90,000 centenarians in the U.S. alone. Aging Boomers and rising life expectancy will cause the 85-plus crowd to grow by 200 percent over the next four decades. By 2050, we'll have eight times more centenarians than we do now. Worldwide, we'll have 3.7 million people aged 100 or older just three decades from now equivalent to everyone now living in Connecticut. Census Bureau: By 2035, Americans aged 85-plus will nearly double to 12 million, and by 2060 to 19 million. Profound, Multi-Disciplinary Exploration of Increased Life Expectancy: Explores super-aging and science, culture, family life, economics, politics, health care, and more. With a rapidly growing senior population, what are the ramifications for Americans of all ages? Penetrates the Racial, Ethnic, and Demographic Inequalities In Aging: Kole visits renowned public health professor Arline Geronimus--who proposed the "weathering effect" concept--to examine how centenarians are overwhelmingly white because of the toll of systemic racism and socio-economic disadvantages on Black and brown bodies. The Science and Medical/Health Breakthroughs of Increasing Life Expectancy: In addition to vaccines and other medical breakthroughs that address diagnoses that used to be death sentences, Kole covers the discovery by Dr. Thomas Perls of the 281 specific genetic markets that are predictive of a 100-year or longer lifespan. Incredible Lineup of Famous Experts Interviewed and Profiled: Dr. Jane Goodall; Dr. Thomas Perls, world's leading geriatric expert; Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders; Nobel Laureates Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Edmund Phelps;Jo Ann Jenkins CEO of the American Association of Retired Persons, the first person of color to hold the position; and many more. Hard Look at Work, Retirement, and Personal Finance: Examines how individuals, families, communities, organizations, and government will have to respond to shifts in work-life longevity, retirement age and duration, and the balance between a precarious social safety net and personal retirement finance. Love, Dating, Relationships, and Loneliness in the Aging of Centenarians: A frank assessment of the emotional downsides of living far beyond 100, and how countries like Britain and Japan have created Cabinet-level "ministers of loneliness" to tackle these challenges.

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Download or read book Exceptional Lifespans written by Heiner Maier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the International Database on Longevity (IDL). The chapters in this book contribute substantial advances in rigorously checked facts about exceptional lifespans and in the application of state-of-the-art analytical strategies to understand trends and patterns in these rare lifespans. The book includes detailed accounts of extreme long-livers and how their long lifespans were documented, as well as reports on the causes of death at the oldest ages. Its key finding, based on the analysis of 1,219 validated supercentenarians, is that the annual probability of death is constant at 50% after age 110. In contrast to previous assertions about a ceiling on the human lifespan, evidence presented in this book suggests that lifespan records in specific countries and globally will be broken again and again as more people survive to become supercentenarians. ​

Download or read book Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High Income Countries written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income countries, such as Japan and Australia. This difference is particularly notable given that the United States spends more on health care than any other nation. Concerned about this divergence, the National Institute on Aging asked the National Research Council to examine evidence on its possible causes. According to Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries, the nation's history of heavy smoking is a major reason why lifespans in the United States fall short of those in many other high-income nations. Evidence suggests that current obesity levels play a substantial part as well. The book reports that lack of universal access to health care in the U.S. also has increased mortality and reduced life expectancy, though this is a less significant factor for those over age 65 because of Medicare access. For the main causes of death at older ages-cancer and cardiovascular disease-available indicators do not suggest that the U.S. health care system is failing to prevent deaths that would be averted elsewhere. In fact, cancer detection and survival appear to be better in the U.S. than in most other high-income nations, and survival rates following a heart attack also are favorable. Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries identifies many gaps in research. For instance, while lung cancer deaths are a reliable marker of the damage from smoking, no clear-cut marker exists for obesity, physical inactivity, social integration, or other risks considered in this book. Moreover, evaluation of these risk factors is based on observational studies, which-unlike randomized controlled trials-are subject to many biases.