Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever

The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Nearer and longevity medicine expert Terry Grossman, MD, present a cutting-edge, accessible program that harnesses current technologies and medicines to help us radically extend our life expectancies and slow the aging process.

“A remarkably thorough and enjoyable program to optimize your health.”—Dean Ornish, MD, Founder and President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute

In Transcend, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil and his coauthor Terry Grossman, MD, have distilled thousands of scientific studies to create a blueprint that can allow you to live long enough (and remain healthy enough) to take full advantage of today’s biotechnology and nanotechnology advances. To help you remember the nine key components of their innovative program, Ray and Terry have created a mnemonic:
 
Talk with your doctor
Relaxation
Assessment
Nutrition
Supplementation
Calorie reduction
Exercise
New technologies
Detoxification
 
This easy-to-follow program can help you transcend the boundaries of our genetic legacy and optimize your health for longevity.

Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for more than six decades—longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a GRAMMY® Award for outstanding achievement in music technology. He is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He has written five books including The Singularity Is Near and How to Create A Mind, both New York Times bestsellers, and Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.

TERRY GROSSMAN, MD , is the founder and medical director of Frontier Medical Institute in Denver, CO, a leading longevity clinic. Certified in anti-aging medicine, he lectures internationally on longevity and anti-aging strategies. Author of The Baby Boomers' Guide to Living Forever, Dr. Grossman lives in Colorado.