From one health fad to the next, it can seem near impossible to sort fact from fiction within the multi-billion-dollar health and wellness industry. And for those of us getting older, the stakes can feel that much higher. With his New York Times bestselling books, Dr. Michael Greger seeks to bring clarity into the confusion on preventing aging and illnesses that are the leading causes of death.
For his most recent book, “How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older,” the physician spent three years poring over 20,000 peer-reviewed medical papers on the topic of aging. He set aside the pills and procedures offered by Big Pharma and instead focused on the underlying causes of common illnesses and diseases that come with aging. His solution is not a conventional vegetable-and-water diet but is all about how good nutrition can counter aging processes, including cell inflammation and enzyme depletion, thereby decreasing the individual’s risk of age-related diseases.
