Younger: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging & Turn Back the Clock 10 Years

Sara Gottfried

Mar 2017 · HarperCollins

About this ebook

“The breakthrough book we’ve been waiting for on . . . epigenetics and aging . . . [A] stunning achievement by one of our wisest and most thoughtful . . . physicians.” —Mark Hyman, M.D., New York Times–bestselling author of The Blood Sugar Solution and director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine

Feel destined for cellulite, saddle bags, and belly fat? Does your family come from a long line of Alzheimer's, cancer, or heart disease? Will nothing help your aging skin or declining libido or flagging energy? This book is for you.

The assumption is that we are our genes. The scientific reality is that ninety percent of the signs of aging and disease are caused by lifestyle choices, not your genes. In other words, you have the capability to overcome and transform your genetic history and tendencies. Harvard/MIT-trained physician Sara Gottfried, M.D. has created a revolutionary seven-week program that empowers us to make the critical choices necessary to not just look young, but also feel young.

Dr. Gottfried builds this book around the five-key factors that lead to accelerated aging —the muscle factor, the brain factor, the hormone factor, the gut factor, and the toxic fat factor. The seven-week program addresses these factors and treats them in an accessible and highly practical protocol and is as follows:

• Feed—Week 1
• Sleep—Week 2
• Move—Week 3
• Release—Week 4
• Expose—Week 5
• Soothe—Week 6
• Think—Week 7

Dr. Gottfried's program makes it possible to change the way you age, stay younger longer, and remain healthy and vibrant for all of your days.

“Prepare to completely shift your paradigm around aging.” —JJ Virgin, New York Times–bestselling author of The Virgin Diet

“An invaluable resource.” —Marianne Williamson, International bestselling author of A Return to Love

Ratings and reviews

No doubt there’s some good science in here, and some advice we’d be wise to consider. However, I recommend you get that advice from a different source. I’ve never encountered a seemingly more elitist person in my life than Dr. Gottfried. I’m not sure she even knows that most people have full time jobs, and as she proceeds to tell you how to modify your entire life, you’d be much more receptive to such suggestions if they were coming from someone with experience in the real world. With gems about how now you have “no excuse not to exercise” (easy to say when you work four hours a day, mostly at a job that can be done at home on your treadmill desk), to comparisons of free radicals to drive-by shootings in “bad neighborhoods” (where “those” people who make excuses about not exercising surely live), this book will raise your stress levels just reading it.

nonsense. no practical uses. better info elsewhere

About the author

Sara Gottfried, MD, is a Harvard-educated physician-scientist and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, where she serves as the Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her clinical focus is performance-based and personalized care of executives and professional athletes. She is the New York Times best-selling author of four previous books about the interface of mental, physical, and spiritual health, including Women, Food, and Hormones and The Hormone Cure. She lives in Mill Valley, California.