Live Forever?: The Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death
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Nature wants you dead. Not just you, but your friends, family, pets – everyone you’ve ever met…
With over 17,000 known diseases affecting humans, and countless poisons, carcinogens and toxins in our environment, it’s a miracle that our bodies manage to keep us alive. And that is, of course, if they don’t betray us themselves, whether through cancers or autoimmune conditions.
Biomedical researcher Professor John Tregoning tells the unlikely story of how, against all odds, we manage to stay alive. Taking an organ-by-organ tour of the human body, Tregoning embarks on his own experimental quest, testing ‘life-extending’ diets and exercise regimes to separate fact from fad. Exploring the multitude of ways our bodies can kill us, from inherited genetic conditions, through heart attacks, arrythmias and angina, onto the delicate workings of the brain, Live Forever? offers compelling insight into how our bodies work, how we can best look after them – and ultimately live longer, healthier lives.
Publisher : Oneworld Publications (11 February 2025)
Language : English
Hardcover : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 0861549384
ISBN-13 : 978-0861549382
Item Weight : 522 g
Dimensions : 13.46 x 4.32 x 21.59 cm
Nature wants you dead. Not just you, but your friends, family, pets – everyone you’ve ever met…
With over 17,000 known diseases affecting humans, and countless poisons, carcinogens and toxins in our environment, it’s a miracle that our bodies manage to keep us alive. And that is, of course, if they don’t betray us themselves, whether through cancers or autoimmune conditions.
Biomedical researcher Professor John Tregoning tells the unlikely story of how, against all odds, we manage to stay alive. Taking an organ-by-organ tour of the human body, Tregoning embarks on his own experimental quest, testing ‘life-extending’ diets and exercise regimes to separate fact from fad. Exploring the multitude of ways our bodies can kill us, from inherited genetic conditions, through heart attacks, arrythmias and angina, onto the delicate workings of the brain, Live Forever? offers compelling insight into how our bodies work, how we can best look after them – and ultimately live longer, healthier lives.
Publisher : Oneworld Publications (11 February 2025)
Language : English
Hardcover : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 0861549384
ISBN-13 : 978-0861549382
Item Weight : 522 g
Dimensions : 13.46 x 4.32 x 21.59 cm
by Amazon Customer
This is a superb book. An enthusiastic senior scientistâs investigation into what we can do to manage our health and longevity, from the blatantly obvious to the obscure and exposing fads, grifts and silliness. Well-written and humorous. I especially like where he tries things for himself. Six stars.
by Craig Skelton
Who knew the body could be so complex, so interesting, and yet a minefield when it comes to looking after it. The risk of death, described in a humorous way. Definitely given me some things to think and about , things to try, and things to change.