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Life Force

How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love

Simon & Schuster,

15 minutes de lecture
7 points à retenir
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Scientists are making daily breakthroughs that could soon cure disease, increase lifespans and reverse aging. 


Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Scientific
  • Eye Opening
  • Visionary

Recommendation

Speaker and coach Tony Robbins and engineer, entrepreneur and author Peter H. Diamandis offer recent findings on amazing breakthroughs in health and longevity research. They discuss new technologies that can repair organs, edit genes, fight cancer  and Alzheimer’s Disease, and may eventually reverse aging. They provide science-backed tips about the lifestyle changes you can make now to look and feel younger.The duo offers a blend of personal anecdotes, scientific research and stories about how precision medicine is changing people’s lives. Their compelling overview will appeal to anyone seeking to live longer and more healthfully.

Summary

Breakthroughs in rejuvenative medicine are revolutionizing health care.

Medicine is undergoing massive change. Scientists are creating new technologies that can fight disease, and that may soon be able to cure aging through the power of stem cells.

Stem cells divide and renew themselves without limits, giving them incredible healing powers. There are thousands of ongoing clinical trials using stem cells to treat diseases including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and heart and liver problems.

Science may soon be able to stop and even reverse aging.

The average person in the United States lives to age 79. Aging sets in long before then, however. Starting in your mid-twenties, a widespread systemic decline begins. Beyond visible signs like gray hair and wrinkles, tissue and organ changes occur and hormone levels drop. David Sinclair, a scientist studying rejuvenation, believes aging is a disease, the root of all other diseases, and that it’s curable.

If your body is a piano, your genome is the keys. The epigenome is the player deciding which keys get pushed. Aging results when your epigenome tells your cells to switch the...

About the Authors

Speaker, coach and philanthropist Anthony Robbins also wrote the bestsellers Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within. Peter H. Diamandis is an engineer, entrepreneur and author of the bestseller Abundance.


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