The Official Anti-Aging Revolution by Ronald Klatz, Md, DO And Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO

The authors give themselves credit for convening a meeting of doctors working in the field of anti-aging medicine in 1992 and the founding of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. This book is an outgrowth of that work, and is the 2007 edition.The biggest value of this book is extensive space devoted to explaining various food nutrients, hormones, and supplements. It's an encyclopedia of nutrition.However, and this is its biggest weakness, is that it doesn't put all the pieces together into one comprehensive anti-aging system. The reader is left on their own to figure out whether they should start taking DHEA or Vitamin C, or not.The authors seem quite partial to hormone therapy, such as people taking DHEA and melatonin. And doctor prescribing testosterone and human growth hormone.These hormones and others are explained, but what is left out is how the average person and should increase their levels of these drugs as they age without taking supplements. Instead, one of
their "rules" is for people over the age of 55 to consider hormone replacement therapy.This seems to me quite young. I can understand how somebody who's 85 going on 100 may need DHEA and human growth hormone from the outside, because their need for the benefits outweigh the risks of damaging the body's own production of these hormones. However, I'm over 55, and don't want to rely on a crutch for the next 70 years.It's true that our hormone levels decline with age, and this is a bad thing. It's also true that hormone therapy can make people biologically younger. However, it's not necessarily true that we age because our hormone levels decline. Perhaps they decline because of our poor health habits.I'd rather know what kinds of diet and exercise I need to raise my hormones levels so that I become biologically younger in truth -- not just because a doctor injected me with something artificial.They discuss the various theories of aging without coming to any conclusion. Perhaps
the truth is that we age for some or all of those reasons, not just one. They also discuss the biology of aging and have a chapter on the top ten biological processes that decline in aging.It contains a lot of practical information on improving your health, although many experts can dispute parts of it. For instance, the dietary recommendations would not keep insulin under control, and that is a key factor in health and aging.Plus, I for one am queasy about going on any kind of hormone therapy. I don't even take melatonin to help me sleep when I travel to the other side of the globe.The biggest benefit to this book is the initial promise that human life and health can be extended well past one hundred years. We already know a lot to make that happen today. And research is proceeding in areas that in the near future will pay off big time.The authors' first rule for living to be 100 is "Don't die." That sounds cruel, but it's not.The longer you keep on living, the more discove
ries medical science will make that can keep you going.Don't die, and you may live to be far far older than you now believe possible. This book is a step in the right direction.

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