Say NO to Aging: How Nitric Oxide (NO) Prolongs Life - Softcover

Levine MD, T. Barry; Levine MD, Arlene Bradley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935254383 ISBN 13: 9781935254386

Publisher: Norlightspress.Com, 2010

Synopsis

In Say NO to Aging, physicians T. Barry and Arlene B. Levine answer the urgent question: How can we slow and reverse aging’s relentless advance? Using stories and examples, the authors guide us through our bodies at the cellular level, showing how lifestyle choices affect the biochemistry of disease and aging. Mitochondria, telomeres, longevity genes, adult stem cells, and cell protection mechanisms keep us healthy for many decades, but they are not infinitely renewable. Say NO to Aging explains how the diseases of aging set in. Say NO to Aging introduces readers to nitric oxide (NO)—a tiny, but immensely important molecule that replenishes our non-renewable life resources and rejuvenates the blood vessels, heart, metabolism, and brain. We can delay aging with easy, yet powerful, lifestyle changes. Drs. Levine provide detailed recommendations on food choices, diets, exercise, and stress reduction practices. They explain how these changes slow the aging process—and protect us against many chronic and lethal diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. The authors show how modern science has incorporated ancient wisdom that first posited an active life lived in harmony and moderation is the healthiest possible choice that says NO to aging.

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From the Author

Everything we are and do occurs through chemical processes within our cells. These factors trigger biochemical reactions that impact our protective longevity defenses. In recent years, scientists have attempted to defeat aging by using adult stem cells, genes, growth factors, and anabolic hormones. Say NO to Aging shows why these techniques work at first and then ultimately fail. Nitric oxide replenishes our nonrenewable life resources in a healthy manner, and a number of simple practices will increase the amount of NO our bodies produce. Say NO to Aging offers an unparalleled scientific understanding of why we age and get sick - and how we can attain a balanced life that preserves and restores our limited stash of life reserves.

About the Author

T. Barry Levine, MD, FACC, is Chief Medical Officer, A.B.L.E. Medical Consulting. He is Professor of Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Levine received his medical degree from the Free University of Brussels and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. He was a cardiology fellow at New York University Medical Center and a research fellow at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Levine has been recognized by his peers in “Best Doctors in America” and “Top Docs in Pittsburgh.” Dr. Levine has been principal investigator of and has participated in numerous clinical trials. He has authored many articles (139), and has created a variety of media presentations on coronary heart disease, heart failure, hypertension, dyslipidemia, arrhythmias, the metabolic syndrome, diabetes, sleep disorders, and pulmonary hypertension. He is a popular and sought-after public speaker to both lay and professional audiences. He has also served on editorial review boards, and has acted as an ad hoc reviewer, executive editor, and guest editor for various medical journals. He, along with Dr. Arlene B. Levine, has written A Patient’s Guide to Heart Failure and co-authored a textbook, Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease (Saunders 2006). A second edition of this book is under contract with Wiley. Arlene Bradley Levine, MD, FACC, is CEO, A.B.L.E. Medical Consulting. Dr. Levine received her undergraduate degree in chemistry summa cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She did her internship and residency training in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School. She was a cardiology fellow and junior faculty at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases. She has worked and done research as a physical chemist, an interventional cardiologist and as a heart failure and transplant cardiologist. She has a strong interest in preventive cardiology and exercise physiology. Dr. Levine is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. She is a member of the American Heart Association, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Heart Failure Society of America.

Edition details

• Publisher: Norlightspress.Com
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1935254383
• ISBN 13: 9781935254386
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 472