UltraLongevity

The Seven-Step Program for a Younger, Healthier You

Mark Liponis, MD (Author)

Published: September 10, 2008

Publisher: Little, Brown And Company

Dimensions: 304 Pages, 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.88 in

From the Publisher

UltraLongevity presents a revolutionary idea: that aging and aging-related diseases - including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes - are autoimmune problems, and that a well-managed immune system is the key to healthy aging. Starting with a quiz - "How Fast Are You Aging?" - Dr. Mark Liponis explains the new science, lays out an accessible and proven 7-step program with an 8-day meal plan, and motivates readers to put the program into practice so that they can keep their minds sharp, become more physically fit, be more resistant to infections and disease, and feel and stay younger than they ever imagined.

About the Author

Mark Liponis, M.D., is the medical director of the Canyon Ranch Spa in all its locations. He is the coauthor of New York Times bestseller Ultraprevention, which won the 2003 Books for a Better Life Award in the health category. He is also a regular contributor to Parade and its new magazine, Health Styles.

From the Author

Your Body Knows.  Are you healthy?  Really?  How do you know?  How can you be sure there’s no little cluster of mutant cells growing silently into a tumor somewhere inside your body?  How do you know there’s no silent plaque in one of your arteries ready to rupture and cause a heart attack or a stroke?  Or a slow buildup of plaque in your brain that might turn those ‘senior moments’ into bona fide Alzheimer’s disease in 10, 20 or 30 years?  

Doctors and scientists keep inventing stronger and more precise scanners – CAT scans, MRI scans and PET scans to try and see even smaller defects inside of us.  Should each of us get a whole body scan every year?   What if it finds something deep inside of us?  What can we do – have surgery?   What if the scans don’t catch it in time?  Or what if they catch it too early and we have needless surgery?

Believe me, these questions are not trivial and they are becoming more and more relevant as medical science, technology and costs advance faster than our ability to understand what they mean or how to pay for them. 

But once again, nature trumps technology.  Our bodies are a lot smarter than a computer or the scanners used to peer inside us.  Our bodies know if and when we’re sick years, if not decades before symptoms alert us to a problem.   The wisdom of your miraculous body knows everything that’s going on inside of you long before any scanner possibly could.

To find out if you’re healthy, really healthy, you just have to ask your body.  

Of course you need to know how to ask, and how to interpret the answer.  

In the miraculous creation of the human body, we were all born with a built-in diagnostic and early detection system just like your modern car’s computerized diagnostics.   Your diagnostic system is your immune system – billions upon billions of microscopic cells traveling through every crevice of your body on surveillance for any disruption.

In UltraLongevity you will learn how to harness the power of your immune system to treat and prevent disease as well as to promote health and longevity.   I’ll post more soon and I hope you enjoy and get healthier by reading my book.

From Publishers Weekly

Liponis, a corporate medical doctor, theorizes that it isn't aging that kills a person: it's their immune system. According to the book, Immune system hyperactivity can be stopped at any age by incorporating healthy lifestyle changes. An interesting quiz (How Fast Are You Aging?) points to major factors in an overactive immune system. Smoking, poor air quality, being overweight, overuse of antibiotics, low birth weight, loneliness and stress all have a negative impact on your score, while eating right, getting enough sleep and exercise, having a pet and a good sex life will put you in the plus column. Liponis renders the complicated immune system understandable by comparing it to our nation's Homeland Security—investigating intruders and warding off potential threats. His seven steps to a healthy system (breathe, eat, sleep, dance, love, soothe, enhance) are well reasoned and sensible. However, the eight-day meal plan may not be to everyone's liking, and Liponis occasionally lapses into a touchy-feely, new-age tone that may turn off some readers. (Sept.) 

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