Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being の感想

Many books on health give you good advice but don’t really give you a satisfying reading experience. I bought this book with some trepidation, imagining that it might be little more than a collection of tips recycled from Weil’s websites. I was immediately reassured as Weil launched into an explanation of cutting-edge aging research. This book is quite a meaty tome, and Weil isn’t afraid to give readers some complexity when explaining important scientific concepts behind aging. As the Amazon.com review suggests, the detailed and careful argumentation is more persuasive than any collection of bullet-point advice on healthy living.

As a licensed physician, Weil of course advises readers to talk to their own doctors about many of the supplements and measures discussed in the book. But he doesn’t hide behind the disclaimers, and is quite ready to tell us what he believes. At the same time, he doesn’t ram it down our throats, and presents alternative views as appropriate. All in