Biological Youth

Biological Youth presents a strategy to enhance mindfulness, transform lifestyle, and neutralize the underlying causes of disease and aging. The strategy combines science, imagination, visualiz-ation, and humor to inspire our total recovery of health and youthfulness. Biological Youth helps us visualize the cellular mechanism of aging in our tissues. It describes how our total fitness preserves youth-promoting stem cells and prevents age-promoting senescent cells. It presents the five essential parts of our total fitness. > Metabolic fitness - Plant-based diet and daily exercise increase lean muscle and reduce body fat. > Circadian fitness - Sleep rhythm and nighttime fasting boost metabolism and brain health. > Microbial fitness - Plant-based diet boosts a healthy gut microbiome. > Immune fitness - Clean air, water, and minimally processed foods reduce toxins and inflammation. > Mental fitness - Mindfulness boosts awareness, lifestyle transformation, and well-being. The Total Recovery Series of books is unlike any other health series with its unique combination of science, imagination, visualization, and humor. > It examines the science that can lead us toward recovery and the marketing and politics that can lead us astray. > It examines how zombie insects in the natural world become controlled by parasites, how our minds are similarly vulnerable to advertising by marketers, and how mindfulness helps us resist the unhealthy behaviors being promoted to us. > And, it presents a fresh take on a Paleolithic plant-based lifestyle with the expression, "Train like a hunter, but eat like a gatherer." This debut book from Todd Ewing PhD is a new addition to the "lifestyle as medicine" tradition of Andrew Weil M.D., Dean Ornish M.D., and Blue Zones, as well as the "food as medicine" tradition of T. Colin Campbell II, Joel Fuhrman M.D., Michael Greger M.D., and Forks Over Knives. The Kindle edition features full-color illustrations, weblink active footnotes, and smartphone-friendly formatting. The paperback edition features gray-scale illustrations and (after purchase) provides access to a discounted Kindle edition through the Matchbook program. A companion (footnotes only) edition of this book is also available for convenient access to weblink active footnotes on a smartphone.