Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Long Game: From Fast Death to Slow Death 7
Chapter 2 Medicine 3.0: Rethinking Medicine for the Age of Chronic Disease 36
Chapter 3 Objective, Strategy, Tactics: A Road Map for Reading This Book 36
Chapter 4 Centenarians: The Older You Get, the Healthier You Have Been 59
Chapter 5 Eat Less, Live Longer: The Science of Hunger and Health 73
Chapter 6 The Crisis of Abundance: Can Our Ancient Genes Cope with Our Modern Diet? 88
Chapter 7 The Ticker: Confronting-and Preventing-Heart Disease, the Deadliest Killer on the Planet 111
Chapter 8 The Runaway Cell: New Ways to Address the Killer That Is Cancer 140
Chapter 9 Chasing Memory: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases 177
Chapter 10 Thinking Tactically: Building a Framework of Principles That Work for You 209
Chapter 11 Exercise: The Most Powerful Longevity Drug 216
Chapter 12 Training 101: How to Prepare for the Centenarian Decathlon 235
Chapter 13 The Gospel of Stability: Relearning How to Move to Prevent Injury 263
Chapter 14 Nutrition 3.0: You Say Potato, I Say "Nutritional Biochemistry" 291
Chapter 15 Putting Nutritional Biochemistry into Practice: How to Find the Right Eating Pattern for You 307
Chapter 16 The Awakening: How to Learn to Love Sleep, the Best Medicine for Your Brain 349
Chapter 17 Work in Progress: The High Price of Ignoring Emotional Health 377
Epilogue 409
Acknowledgments 413
Notes 417
References 431
Index 471