Life Beyond 100: Secrets of the Fountain of Youth

By C. Norman Shealy

Book Overview

Using today's most leading-edge therapies and breakthroughs in the science of longevity, C. Norman Shealy, one of the pioneering holistic physicians of our time, shows how we can healthfully age to one hundred, and beyond.

The idea of living well beyond one hundred years-and enjoying those years in good health-used to be the stuff of science fiction. No longer. C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., whom Caroline Myss calls a "wizard-genius-scientist-mystic-physician," offers Life Beyond 100: Secrets of the Fountain of Youth. In this deeply learned and revolutionary book, Dr. Shealy provides a new concept of longevity, one that reveals that we can live far longer than current science suggests.

Basic healthy living and the use of alternative therapies have long been touted as "the way" to well-being, but Dr. Shealy takes these tenets a step further. From the physiology of stress and its effect on the human mind and body to the importance of DHEA; from the proven techniques of photostimulation and biofeedback training to groundbreaking suggestions for alleviating depression; from Shealy's electromagnetic framework of life to his recommendations for optimal health, Life Beyond 100 presents a detailed roadmap to achieve healthy aging-or "youthing." The result of years of clinical practice and cutting-edge research, Life Beyond 100 also exposes the fallacies behind many of the claims made by the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry. Shealy argues that rather than increasing people's life expectancy, these two groups create the opposite effect, consigning hundreds of thousands of people to an often miserable and premature old age by treating symptoms with an antidote-prescription medicine-that is often worse than the ailment itself.

As a counterpoint, Life Beyond 100 provides the most ambitious- yet medically grounded and commonsensical-longevity program available. Easy to follow and supported by advanced research, Dr. Shealy's guide to uncovering the secrets of youthful aging redefines the concept of human longevity and offers a new vision of healthy living to one hundred and beyond.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585425230
• ISBN13: 9781585425235
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

The cleansing Doctor

Dr Shealy is among the very, very few modern-day MDs who understand, acknowledge, and practice the role of dietary cellular cleansing in disease. And this book is no exception. While he gives great clues as to how people grow successfully old and how we can, too, there are dietary and external tips for keeping the cells cleansed and the metabolic waste moving throughout the entire book. It's a central theme in his work. During his book tour this past week, Shealy was asked by a reporter for one quick tip (to staying old). His cell-cleansing response? "If you want a single health habit that will help everyone, it's 20 to 30 minutes of sitting in a sauna or soaking in a hot tub. Even a hot bath. It reduces your stress and you sweat away toxins." Shealy's approach to health was highlighted by one of the ending statements he said in a live presentation I saw him give back in 1997. It struck such a nerve that I wrote it down then, and quoted it 4 years later in my first book. He said: "The next great advance in the health of the American people will come not from hospitals or laboratories, but from what people will learn to do for themselves." I still have not found a better creed by which to live.