
Lifespan: Why We Age - And Why We Don’t Have To
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In this paradigm-shifting audiobook from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people on earth, Dr. David Sinclair reveals that everything we think we know about ageing is wrong, and shares the surprising, scientifically proven methods that can help listeners live younger, longer.
For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no-one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases. That's because ageing is not a disease - it is inevitable.
But what if everything you think you know about ageing is wrong? What if ageing is a disease? And that disease is curable.
In Lifespan, Dr David Sinclair, one of the world’s foremost authorities on genetics and ageing, argues just that. He has dedicated his life’s work to chasing more than a longer lifespan - he wants to enable people to live longer, healthier, and disease-free well into our hundreds. In this audiobook, he reveals a bold new theory of ageing, one that pinpoints a root cause of ageing that lies in an ancient genetic survival circuit.
This genetic trick - a circuit designed to halt reproduction in order to repair damage to the genome - has enabled earth’s early microcosms to survive and evolve into more advanced organisms.
But this same survival circuit is the reason we age: as genetic damage accumulates over our lifespans from UV rays, environmental toxins, and unhealthy diets, our genome is overwhelmed, causing gray hair, wrinkles, achy joints, heart issues, dementia, and, ultimately, death.
But genes aren’t our destiny; we have more control over them than we’ve been taught to believe. We can’t change our DNA, but we can harness the power of the epigenome to realise the true potential of our genes.
Drawing on his cutting-edge findings at the forefront of medical research, Dr Sinclair will provide a scientifically proven road map to reverse the genetic clock by activating our vitality genes, so we can live younger longer.
Readers will discover how a few simple lifestyle changes - like intermittent fasting, avoiding too much animal protein, limiting sugar, avoiding x-rays, exercising with the right intensity, and even trying cold therapy - can activate our vitality genes.
Dr Sinclair ends the audiobook with a look to the near future, exploring what the world might look like - and what will need to change - when we are all living well to 120 or more.
Dr Sinclair takes what we have long accepted as the limits of human potential and mortality and turns them into choices. Lifespan is destined to be the biggest book on genes, biology, and longevity of this decade.
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- Listening Length11 hours and 55 minutes
- Audible release date10 September 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB07VN5Q1Y7
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Listening Length | 11 hours and 55 minutes |
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Author | Dr David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante |
Narrator | Dr David A. Sinclair |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 10 September 2019 |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B07VN5Q1Y7 |
Best Sellers Rank | 105 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Genetics (Books) 1 in Evolution (Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Genetics (Audible Books & Originals) |
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Having followed Dr Sinclair's research literally for the last seven months, I can attest that my health and fitness have improved dramatically in that time, and I was a professional athlete who has kept reasonably fit for 67 years old.
Upon reading the research that Dr Sinclair and his colleagues throughout the world have completed, you will understand how simple the ageing process is, yet extremely complicated to research. Most great breakthroughs follow the same guidelines.
Enjoy the read and change your life.
Cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and even COVID-19, are all diseases of which aging plays a fundamental role. As a leader in his field of research, David Sinclair articulates why targeting *biological* aging as a 'disease' should be a priority for medicine in the context of an aging population.
Crucially, aging does not just affect the 'elderly'. So many genetic and environmental factors lead to accelerated aging, including depression, stress, chemotherapy, HIV/AIDS, down syndrome, diabetes etc.; aging affects all of us and occurs at a cellular level throughout life...
If COVID-19 didn't make it obvious enough, it is about time we did something about biological aging.
Must read to all. If you Love someone , please get this book as a gift.
Aging - as cellular damage is also the mechanism behind many "big name" problems like cancer, heart disease, loss of skin plasticity etc. Stopping aging also discourages these conditions for developing in the first place. Interesting read.
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I think a typical scientist would and should stop right there; for science does not concern itself with morality but with pure knowledge whether constructive or destructive. Nonetheless, Dr Sinclair goes on to debate the real and political consequences of people living, if not forever, certainly much longer than they do now. To me, this is where the book rapidly goes down hill. Dr Sinclair knows there will be serious repercussions: an increase in population; a greater demand for resources; more pollution; more carbon emissions; etc, etc. He says that alongside the big increase in population in the 1800's was a huge increase in the standard of sanitation and health as though it were causative - more people lead to more benefits. He thinks that GMO and foods modified by other technologies will provide the solution to feeding the ever-increasing numbers of mouths and gets irritated when some people have the temerity to question their safety. Also, because he would be content to work doing his interesting research in his lab for the next 50 years, it does not mean a miner would like to spend another 50 digging coal.
Despite Dr Sinclair's faith in the ingenuity of man, there are times when i sense he is trying to convince himself of his utopian vision rather than the reader. Living to infinity is not the be all and end all; living a healthy life is more important, whether one lives to 70 or 90.
At some point I will re-read the first half of the book - which I enjoyed - but not the second. I must be only part Luddite.

Richard Dawkins touched on why we would inherit genes that fail as we age: essentially we reproduce before we suffer from these age-related ailments, and so natural selection has not filtered it out as it presumably has young man/woman ailments that would kill off the would-be reproducer.
The book uses scientific terms and explanations and so some reading on physiology may be beneficial alongside this book. Note taking is a must if you're wanting to retain and be able to explain the contents.
The reason I've given it 3 out of 5 stars is the completely lack of concern over the animals the author and his colleagues tested on. I know its commonplace (though this doesn't make it right) but there is not even any acknowledgement from the author that this is cruel behaviour. He will talk about how he'll age mice prematurely (yes fascinating but cruel), starve them, dissect them prior to natural death, etc. He does comment on how easy it is to buy mice to test on, though. Well, as long as subjecting unlucky animals to torture is convenient!

