Metabolic Plan (eBook)

Stephen Cherniske (Autor)

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2007 | 1. Auflage
368 Seiten
Random House Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-0-307-41726-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The choice is yours: You can add forty or more vigorous, fulfilling years to your life. It sounds like science fiction, but in fact it's cutting-edge science grounded in exciting new research. In The Metabolic Plan, internationally renowned biochemist Stephen Cherniske reveals the medical breakthroughs that enable all of us to extend our lives--and the quality of our lives--starting today.

After years of dedicated study and research that took him to six continents, Cherniske has arrived at a new paradigm that radically alters our understanding of the aging process and the human potential for longevity. Far from giving out due to inevitable wear and tear, the human body is naturally endowed with astonishing powers of renewal, self-repair, and regeneration. The secret to unlocking these powers lies not in genetic tinkering or a high-tech fix, but in outsmarting mother nature at her own game.

As Cherniske explains, a simple adjustment in your metabolism can profoundly alter your energy level, strength and stamina, your body's ability to fight disease, even the intensity of your sexual desire and fulfillment. In short, by following his regime, you can essentially 'trick' your body into adopting the metabolism of a twenty-year-old. The Metabolic Plan takes you step-by-step through the process of natural rejuvenation. Here is a comprehensive diet and exercise plan specifically tailored to boost antioxidant levels, combat disease, increase muscle, reduce fat, and enhance memory and vision. Cherniske shares the age-defying properties of such cutting-edge supplements as 7-Keto and debunks myths about acid/alkaline foods. Here too are detailed metabolic plans geared to the different needs of men and women and to every decade of our lives--so we'll know exactly what to focus on when.

Longer life, more energy, improved health, a pervasive sense of well-being: it sounds too good to be true, but it's all within our grasp. At once revolutionary and eminently practical, this is the book that finally solves the puzzle of aging.

From the Hardcover edition.

Textauszug

Foundations Although this took place more than thirty-five years ago, I remember it as if it were yesterday. My biology professor was about to give me the key to aging, and I was doodling in my notebook, obsessed with the girl in the blue sweater two rows down. 'Nature,' he said bombastically, 'doesn't care a whit about you and me.' The statement jarred me from my musings. 'Nature has one goal, and that is survival of the species.' Now he had my attention, because that meant procreation, which I was contemplating, albeit along different lines. The argument that he was presenting, which has since been reinforced by decades of research in evolutionary biology, was that aging and death are simply part of the Plan--part of nature's game. Survival of a species depends on its reproduction. Through natural selection, traits and behaviors that favor reproduction carry through from generation to generation, while adaptations that don't are selected out. A species that fails to reproduce in adequate numbers to carry on its unique genetic package will become extinct. Every species has a certain life span and characteristics that maximize its evolutionary success. For humans, this means a fairly slow rate of growth to maturity, with the highest point of energy, vitality, optimism, and sex drive occurring at around age 20.1 Then we begin to age. It's as if Mother Nature says, 'OK, I've flooded every tissue in your body with hormones and maxed out your immune, respiratory, cardiovascular, and endocrine systems. Now procreate!' And of course, the majority of us do. Then, Mother Nature says, 'Thanks! I'll give you a few more decades to care for the progeny you've created, and then I'm going to have to get rid of you to make room for a newer, younger model.' Thus, aging and death. Now, I was hearing this at the age of nineteen, not a time when you think a lot about mortality, but the professor had a remarkable way of driving the lesson home. 'You,' he said, 'are filled with energy, while I have to drag myself out of bed every morning. You have strong, muscular bodies, and I have'--here he grabbed his belly with both hands--'fat. You have sex--or at least the contemplation of sex--and I have fading memories.' He was fifty-three. Now, I was on a sports scholarship, so the part about strong, muscular bodies was not lost on me. And I was gripped by the sudden realization that this would not always be the case. If this was nature's game, I decided right then and there to find a way to win: to enjoy what I treasured most--energy, vitality, and enthusiasm--for as long as humanly possible. I was also incapable of imagining life without sex (hey, I was nineteen), and thus began my quest for longevity. I reasoned that success in any game requires that you learn the rules, so I went on to study anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry. I attended graduate school and traveled to six continents to unravel the secrets of aging. And here I am in my midfifties, past the age of my balding, tired, and overweight biology professor, yet I've turned out much differently. My body fat is 9 percent, exactly the same as it was in 1966. My blood pressure is 90/60, better than it was back then. My cholesterol is 150, and my immune profile, neurologic scores, and blood tests are about the same as a man in his midthirties. How did this happen? I learned the rules to nature's game . . . And then I figured out how to bend a few. 'That could be just good genes,' say the skeptics. But until 1988, I was headed straight for professordom. I was sixteen pounds heavier than I am now, and my body fat was 20 percent and climbing. My cholesterol was 214...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.12.2007
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Ernährung / Diät / Fasten
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
• ISBN-10: 0-307-41726-3 / 0307417263
• ISBN-13: 978-0-307-41726-8 / 9780307417268