Healthy eating & exercise can add years to your life but… HOW YOU CAN LIVE BEYOND 120 YEARS?
Immunologist & biochemist’s new book reveals new insights into the aging process and details steps to expand the maximum human life span
Who was Jeanne Calment? She was French, an avid fencer and enjoyed the occasional glass of red wine. She passed away on August 4, 1997 at an age of 122 years and 164 days. This period of about 120 years is currently viewed as the maximum human life span. Could this be further increased by altering a few aspects of your life?
In his new book, Avoiding the First Cause of Death, Dr. Wulf Droege , former department head at the National Cancer Research Center of Germany and Professor of Immunology and Cell Biology at the University of Heidelberg, reveals new insights into the mechanisms of aging and death and describes steps aiming at increasing our life span beyond the current maximum human life span of 120 years. While many guides encourage readers to add a few more years to their lives by adopting a better lifestyle including healthier eating and adequate physical exercise, Dr. Droege’s book is addressed to all those health aficionados who are already observing the recommendations for a healthy lifestyle und who now want to reach beyond the current maximum life span.
Supported by his own research and credible references, Droege explains how the process of self-rejuvenation depends on alternating periods of rigorous autocannibalism, which removes damaged parts and waste from the body, and rigorous reconstruction to refill the gaps. As humans age, the process of autocannibalism declines and affects several major age-related diseases and the basic process of aging and death. Dr. Droege explains the steps that may be taken to ameliorate the decline of this mechanism and add years to your life.
“This is not an ‘easy’ book to read,” says Droege. “It is not the newest diet book or guide to living a healthy life. It goes to the next level, explaining the processes that cause the body to age and the preventative measures that may be taken to live past the maximum human life span of about 120 years.”
Themes found throughout Avoiding the First Cause of Death include:
* Limits of the maximum human life span
* Mechanisms of aging and death
* The effects of oxygen radicals & oxidative stress on the human body
* How we can alter our internal processes to reduce the risks of age-related diseases such as heart failure
As a Professor of Immunology and Cell Biology at the University of Heidelberg ( Germany ) and head of a department at the German Cancer Research Center , Dr. Wulf Droege has focused his research on the areas of redox regulation, oxidative stress, aging and the mechanisms of disease-related wasting. After studying chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Freiburg (Germany), Dr. Droege served as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and as a scientific member at the Basel Institute of Immunology in Switzerland. He is a member of several scientific societies and has published more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
He divides his time between his homes in Montreal , Canada and Heidelberg , Germany .
Avoiding the First Cause of Death is available for purchase at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and iUniverse.com.
