Longevity Tips
Keep your mind sharp
and your body young

In The Longevity Bible: 8 Essential Strategies for Keeping Your Mind Sharp and Your Body Young, Dr. Gary Small explains the science behind these eight essentials for keeping your mind sharp and your body young, and offers concise, easy-to-follow steps for integrating them into your daily life.

Essential 1: Sharpen Your Mind

Mental Aerobics cross train your brain to significantly improve memory skills and brain efficiency. If you fix your brain for longevity, your body will follow in kind.

Essential 2: Maintain a Positive Outlook

Positive Thinking boosts the body’s immune system, which is why optimists have fewer physical and emotional difficulties, less pain and higher energy levels.

Essential 3: Cultivate Healthy and Intimate Relationships

Socially Connected people survive up to 20 percent longer. A healthy sex life at every age helps lower blood pressure, reduce stress and depression, boost the immune system, and extend life expectancy.

Essential 4: Promote Stress-Free Living

Stress is among the leading causes of age-related disease, and your ability to adopt Stress Busters will not only help you feel and look better, but also live longer.

Essential 5: Master Your Environment

Whether it’s traffic, smoke, clutter, noise, mold, smog, or information over-load, quality longevity depends upon your ability to adapt to and control your environmental influences.

Essential 6: Shape up to Stay Young

The Longevity Fitness Routine combines cardiovascular conditioning, balance and flexibility, and strength training to maximize health, boost energy levels, and prevent age-related diseases.

Essential 7: The Longevity Diet

Eat all of your favorite foods—including desserts— and break free of today’s fashionable diets by learning to eat delicious and healthy foods in realistic portions, while feeling anything but deprived.

Essential 8: Modern Medicine to Look and Feel Younger

From smart drugs to Botox to microscopic lasers, the latest in medicines and treatments can keep you looking and feeling young.