The Canyon Ranch Guide to Living Younger Longer: A Complete Program for Optimal Health for Body, Mind, and Spirit

The nation's most popular health spa share some of its secrets for relieving stress, exercising regularly, eating right, and bringing spirituality into the home.

In 1968, then forty-year-old Mel Zuckerman took a battery of tests, which showed that his biological age -- measured by such biomarkers as aerobic capacity, bone and muscle mass, and chronic stress response -- was sixty-five to seventy years. Eleven years later, he discovered that he could reverse his biomarkers of aging -- and, together with his wife, Enid, opened Canyon Ranch Health Resort to teach others how they too can live younger longer. Canyon Ranch has been recognized as the world's "Best Spa" by Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Shape, and Gourmet. Canyon Ranch has locations in Tucson, Arizona; Lenox, Massachusetts; and Las Vegas, Nevada. More than twenty members of the incomparable professional staff of Canyon Ranch have contributed their expertise to this book.