A rapidly and continuously growing topic, that of longevity has made space among the biggest trends of the moment to establish itself as the new social priority. First through a reversal of direction in the approach toagingwhere constructs such as are preferred to the oppositional pronoun “anti”. well-aging And pro-ageing, today the interest in the issue has taken on such a dimension that it has made longevity a multidimensional topic of universal interest. To understand what it is and how to achieve iti books represent the best source from which to draw.
Understanding Longevity: What It Is and Why Everyone’s Talking About It
There is a lot of talk about it, both in the cosmetics sector and in health and well-being in general. Longevity, as he writes Treccaniis a «term used in biology to define the physiological capacity of an organism to survive beyond the limit considered average for the species to which it belongs”. Be long-livedtherefore, means to lengthen one’s own life expectations and, at the same time, reduce the risk of contracting diseases and degeneration of the organism, for a healthy and active old age.
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Hand in hand with the technological and scientific evolutions that have characterized the last few centuries, the average life rate has grown so much that, according to estimates shared by World Social Report By 2023, the number of people aged 65 and over will double to more than two billion by 2050. But living longer does not automatically equate to being healthy. This is why it is important to introduce small tips into your daily life which, overall, prove to be crucial in determining everyone’s quality of life, since childhood.
Fromphysical activity todietpassing through the daily habits, there are many biological mechanisms that allow the organism to stay healthy beyond the average time. This is explained by industry experts who, through the experience of a career dedicated to the research and study of the human body and the environment that surrounds it, collect in the pages of one or more books those who are the methods and advice for a healthy longevity.
The best books on longevity
Talking about longevity is very different from understanding it and actually putting it into action. For this reason, the best thing is to rely on readings in which the theme is approached from different points of view, be it nutritional and medical or historical and anthropological, in a simple, understandable but effective way. From the new release Longevity Mission by Doctor Filippo Ongaro passing through best seller as The longevity diet by Valter Longo, here are the unmissable books to make the best recommendations for a long, healthy life.
Filippo Ongaro, Longevity Mission
Filippo Ongaro, Longevity Mission
What can you do to secure one healthy longevity: it is from this question that the new book by Dr. Ongaro, the first Italian to be certified in anti-aging medicine and functional medicine in the United States. “Longevity Mission” combines what he learned during his seven years of work as an austronaut doctor, during which Filippo Ongaro understood that the aging process is not different from that which involves those on earth, in search of techniques and scientific instruments aimed at slowing it down. The result is the story of a practical approach, made up of synergies and paths that really allow you to live longer and better.
Riccardo Chiaberge, The formula for longevity
Riccardo Chiaberge, The Longevity Formula
Author of books such as Engineers of lifewritten together with Nobel Prize winner Renato Dulbecco, e The God VariableRiccardo Chiaberge addresses the theme of longevity declining it in a new way. With a dive into the nineteenth century, the writer retraces some of the most dramatic historical moments and facts that Western society has ever had to face. Cholera in London, contaminated milk in New York, workplace deaths in Italian rice fields. Each of these events corresponds to a silent but powerful revolution promoted by science and human ingenuity, which has allowed society to progress and extend the lives of new generations.
Valter Longo, Longevity begins with children
Valter Longo, Longevity begins with children
Feuerbach said: “We are what we eat.” Nutrition is in fact one of the pillars underlying well-being and longevity. Firmly believing in the role it plays in determining the quality and length of life since childhood, Valter Longo has developed a food program ideal for the whole family, contained in the pages of “Longevity begins with children”. Concerned by the rates of overweight children with health problems, the expert joined a team of doctors and specialists to propose an analysis and a cutting-edge nutritional plan designed to support parents towards a correct one food education of children as early as pregnancy.
Valter Longo, The longevity diet
Valter Longo, The longevity diet
From the same author, the best-selling book on longevity in the Amazon “Dietetics and Nutrition” category. In “The longevity diet”, Dr. Longo maintains the focus on nutrition, but shifts it to a particular nutritional program, called “the fasting-mimicking diet”. Biologist and director of the Longevity Institute at the University of California, Longo explains here what the benefits of one are periodic calorie restrictionin which you don’t fast completely but reduce your nutrient intake to a minimum to generate a reset of the organism. This would allow us to eliminate fat mass and regenerate the body, reducing the risk of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and neuro-degenerative diseases.
Andrea Grieco, Choose longevity
Andrea Grieco, Choose longevity
Doctor and psychotherapist among the leading experts in fibromalgia and chronic inflammation, as well as a reference figure in the field of functional medicine, Andrea Grieco draws on all his experience to share with readers the better strategies to be implemented to «guide» your own longevity. Scientific but simple to understand, the book explains the biochemical mechanisms underlying the good functioning of cells, activated by nutrition and healthy habits that go beyond traditional medicine. A must read for anyone who wants it explore the relationship between nutrition and health.
Camillo Ricordi, The code of healthy longevity
Camillo Ricordi, The code of healthy longevity
Not a simple book, but a code which, as such, contains within its pages a series of rules to follow for a healthy life. Writing to you is Professor Camillo Ricordi, today director of the most important diabetes research center in the world – the Diabetes Research Institute of the University of Miami. Driven by the desire to understand why what leads to aging and premature death, Ricordi has dedicated his life to research and experimentation, developing a life model which, based on the synergy of nutrition, movement and supplementsallows you to protect the body from the damage of cellular aging and promote the biological rejuvenation.
David A. Sinclair, Longevity
David A. Sinclair, Longevity
Professor Ricordi returns to the topic of longevity by editing the Italian edition of the book by David A. Sinclair, pioneer and international leader in the field of research on aging and longevity, together with Matthew D. LaPlante. Here, the authors explain how aging is not an inevitable condition and irreversible and that, by adopting a curious and anti-paradigmatic approach, it is possible to find a way to prevent it from happening. Like a journey that starts from the historical references of the most critical stages of research on aging and longevity, arrives at the present and goes beyond it by looking at the boundaries of science. A perfect book for those who already “chew” the material and wants to observe it from a revolutionary point of view.
