Breaking the Age Code

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Just changing the way you think about getting older can add 7.6 years to your life. Esteemed Yale professor Dr Becca Levy is the world’s leading expert and pioneer in the field of ageing. Now she shares the secrets to a healthy and vibrant long life in this powerful and authoritative book. Part polemic, part practical, this book offers revelations and scientifically-proven advice on how to age well and live longer. First revealing the surprising impact our biases around ageing have on the ageing process, Dr Levy then sets out what we can do as individuals to help ourselves age well using her simple ABC method. She then tackles head on the question of how to start shifting Western cultural ideas around getting older.

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‘Will shatter some of your basic assumptions about ageing’ – Adam Grant

Why do some people age better and live longer than others?

This is the question that led leading expert and researcher Dr Becca Levy to discover a fascinating truth: just changing the way you think about ageing can add years to your life.

In Breaking the Age Code, Dr Levy draws on pioneering research to offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. She demonstrates that many aspects of ageing we consider to be natural, such as memory loss, hearing decline and cardiovascular events, are in fact influenced by our own negative biases, often informed by cultural ageism. She tackles head on how we can shift these outdated ideas at a societal level and what we can do to help ourselves.

Positive, practical and full of fresh insights, Breaking the Age Code will dismantle your assumptions about how we get older and leave you looking forward to what the future holds.

Breaking the Age Code is less a self-help manual than a manifesto for a revolution’ – Anna Maxted, The Times

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Weight 374 g
Dimensions 236 × 157 × 23 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

288

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

155.67 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K