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While most books focus solely on the role of cholesterol in heart disease, Reverse Heart Disease Now draws on new research that points to the surprising other causes. Two leading cardiologists draw on their collective 50 years of clinical cardiology research to show you how to combine the benefits of modern medicine, over-the-counter vitamins and supplements, and simple lifestyle changes to have a healthy heart.

The Mature Mind delivers good news for those in the second half of life, with an extraordinary account of cutting-edge neuroscience, groundbreaking psychology, fascinating vignettes from history and case studies, and practical advice for personal growth strategies. Gene Cohen, a renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist, draws from more than thirty years of research to show that surprising positive changes in our brains have the powerful potential to enhance, not diminish, our lives after fifty.

In this age of lunchtime lifts, wrinkle-erasing injections, furrow fillers, and lip plumpers, there’s no question that anyone who aims to look younger easily can. But Lauren Kessler wants something more than to follow the cosmetic path to youthfulness. She wants to live with energy, stamina, vitality, resilience, and health for a very, very long time. Her goal: to reverse her biological age from the inside out.

George S. K. Rider's The Rogue's Road to Retirement takes a unique approach to growing old don't do it! After retiring, Rider embarks on a bumpy journey to find himself and a new lease on life. For the first time, he gets in touch with his creative side an unusual direction indeed, since he spent 70 years of his life as a college athlete turned Navy officer turned Wall Street trader and weekend jock.

歳を取れば取るほどに、将来に対する不安から「食事や嗜好品、お金などを節制して、老後に備えなければならない」と考える日本人が、非常に多いように感じます。

Alzheimer’s disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world’s most common causes of death. Alzheimer’s lingers for years, with patients’ outward appearance unaffected while their cognitive functions fade away. Patients lose the ability to work and live independently, to remember and recognize. There is still no proven way to treat Alzheimer’s because its causes remain unknown. Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer’s that demystifies efforts to understand the disease.

Americans are afraid of their food. And for good reason. In 2011, the deadliest food-borne illness outbreak in a century delivered killer listeria bacteria on innocuous cantaloupe never before suspected of carrying that pathogen. Nearly 50 million Americans will get food poisoning this year. Spoiled, doctored or infected food will send more than 100,000 people to the hospital. Three thousand will die. We expect, even assume, our government will protect our food, but how often do you think a major U.S. food farm get inspected by federal or state officials?

Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. When Ann Neumann's father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver - cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, she was undone by the experience, by grief and the visceral quality of dying.

In Grief Day by Day, Jan Warner draws on her own extensive experience and the experiences of the 2 million followers on her Grief Speaks Out Facebook page to offer hope in its most practical form. This audiobook does not look to offer a solution to grief. Rather, it provides supportive, useful guidance to help you create a life in which peace, and even gratitude, can coexist with your grief. There is no “right way” to grieve, and there is no right way to use this book. 

In this groundbreaking new book, a Harvard-trained neurologist shows how you can attain lifelong mental fitness. Utilizing the latest breakthroughs in research, Dr. Jeff Victoroff has developed a definitive, life-changing plan that provides you with the powerful, scientifically based methods you need to protect your brain from aging and memory loss. Starting today, you too can save your brain.

If you are a woman in your late 30s or 40s and are experiencing mood swings, free-floating anxiety, memory lapses, inability to concentrate, sleep disturbances...it is not all in your head, and you are not alone.This compassionate and comprehensive book covers everything you need to know about perimenopause - the changes that occur in the decade before menopause.

There’s something terribly broken in our industrial food, medical, and pharmaceutical systems. What’s going wrong? Can we really avoid the leading causes of death just by changing our diet? Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, creators of the revolutionary What the Health and the award-winning Cowspiracy documentaries, take listeners on a science-based tour of the hazards posed by consuming animal products - and what happens when we stop.    

From his working class roots in New Jersey to the “tune in, turn on, drop out” cliffs of Big Sur and the pinnacles of the human potential movement; from launching his company Age Wave and coming to terms with his own aging process, Ken Dychtwald’s Radical Curiosity makes sense of his first 70 years of life, offering invaluable life lessons through the lens of a man constantly seeking truth and self-discovery - giving listeners a glimpse into a visionary's extraordinary world, and a guide for claiming a powerful vision of one’s own.  

Sarah Vincent once tipped the scales at 122 kilos. She worked at the back of a hospital making calls and answering emails, but at three o'clock every afternoon she would answer a very special call - the call of the dim sim. Running the gauntlet of smokers in the hospital car park one day for her daily dim sim fix, Sarah had an epiphany: just like those nicotine addicts, who continued dragging on their cigarettes even while attached to IV drips, Sarah was an addict and was slowly killing herself with food.

★スタンフォード大学超人気講義「HELTH SPAN（健康寿命）」を担当した医師による世界的ベストセラー

もうイライラしない　もっとやさしくなれる。認知症の人に伝わりやすい声かけで、コミュニケーションがラクになる！

Altern in Würde, mit Gelassenheit und Freude – der fast 90-jährige Psychiater Rhee Kun Hoo zeigt, wie es gelingen kann. Vergebung (auch sich selbst gegenüber), Ausdauer, die Fähigkeit, Kompromisse einzugehen und Frieden mit sich und anderen zu schließen, sind dabei wichtige Elemente. Hoo hebt die Bedeutung von Liebe und Nachsicht hervor, die Freuden des einfachen Lebens und das Glück der kleinen Dinge. Er plädiert dafür, die Dinge so zu sehen, wie sie sind, ohne Selbstbetrug, mit unverstelltem Blick – und immer mit einer Prise Humor.

Las mujeres que han vivido la transición menopáusica, ¿qué opinan sobre esta época de su vida? ¿Se puede aprender de esta experiencia y rebatir los discursos oficiales? ¿Cuáles son los aspectos experimentados positivamente y cuáles se reconocen como negativos? ¿Qué estrategias han elaborado para atravesarla con bienestar? En este texto la autora ofrece una versión desdramatizada acerca de la edad de la renovación a partir de las voces de las propias mujeres, quienes reflexionan sobre la relación entre menopausia, deseo y sexualidad y los temores con los que se afronta esta vivencia en nuestra cultura.

Fin dal concepimento, e per buona parte della vita, il nostro cervello conosce processi che ne garantiscono lo sviluppo e l'aumento delle capacità attraverso l'apprendimento. Ma in ognuna di queste fasi può essere oggetto di aggressioni che possono comprometterne le funzioni: stili di vita scorretti, fumo, uso di droghe o abuso di alcol, alimentazione sbagliata.

El cuerpo femenino, a diferencia del masculino, es más complejo y estructurado, y como las sociedades han tratado la sexualidad femenina como un tema tabú, pues es poco lo que las mujeres saben y conocen de su cuerpo. Por esto, y porque realmente entender a las mujeres es su pasión, el doctor Alejandro Montoya, ginecólogo y female expert con casi treinta años de experiencia, nos explica cómo funciona el cuerpo femenino, haciendo un viaje por todas las etapas que biológicamente son determinantes para las mujeres.