Recommended
Books
With the vast amounts of literature published on Longevity, we are continuously highlighting books that stand out and best represent the sector.
If you have any additional recommendations, feel free to contact us with your thoughts.
The Stress-Proof Brain
Dr. Melanie Greenberg
The Stress-Proof Brain is a guide for mental health professionals and health-conscious readers alike in methods of evaluating and deciding the importance of various events to alleviate unnecessary stress caused by minor issues faced each day. Melanie Greenberg, a psychologist and coach with a PhD in clinical psychology from Stony Brook University, divides her book into three parts: Understanding Stress, Calming the Amygdala, Moving Forward with the Prefrontal Cortex. Dr. Greenberg clarifies the brain's process of handling stress under different conditions and offers readers coping strategies. Not intended as a way to avoid stress - this is a guide to understand stress and cope through various techniques.
Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder
Chip Conley
Wisdom at Work is a book describing the lessons learned from the experience of an accomplished businessman in his mid-50s during his integration into one of the largest, most recognized tech companies of today - Airbnb. Mr. Conley was recruited into the company’s early stages as an expert advisor due to his long and thriving experience as a CEO in the hospitality industry.
The Blue Zones
Dan Buettner
The Blue Zones is the cornerstone of the Longevity movement today. Written by the National Geographic explorer Dan Buettner, this extraordinary book takes us on the voyage that has evolved our understanding of centenarians and what factors, regardless of borders, contribute most strongly to passing the 100-year marker.
The Happiness Curve
Jonathan Rauch
The Happiness Curve is an expose on how to embrace the third part of our lives. Mr. Rauch, an acclaimed journalist having experienced the hump of the ‘midlife crisis’ brings to us the stories of people from all walks of life who have rebooted the “hump” into a ‘curve’ - and have found the ways to embrace what millions fear to be an impending malaise - to say the least.
The Personalized Diet
Eran Segal & Eran Elinav
The Personalized Diet reveals the surprising yet obvious fact that while some foods may be beneficial for some, the same diet can prove to be detrimental for others. Since Drs. Segal and Elinav brought readers their research on personalized nutrition, the world of dieticians and nutritionists has been forced to recalibrate every one of their standardized formulas.
The Upside of Stress
Dr. Kelly McGonigal
Expanding on years of research by Kelly McGonigal in the field of stress, the reader is given an insight into the ways we can benefit from certain forms of stress. This work explains the processes of stress from a psychological, physiological, and emotional perspective - enabling us to pivot the negative aspects of stress into beneficial personal strengths. As a psychologist, researcher, and lecturer at Stanford University, Kelly McGonigal, PhD, has drawn on her personal and professional experience to demonstrate how to use the reactions that stress causes within the brain to cope with situations from an alternate perspective.
How to Live Forever
Marc Freedman
How to Live Forever tackles the phenomenon of today’s shift in age demographics through the lens of generativity. Mr Freedman brings us along his thirty-year journey to ask and answer such questions as ‘What is the new meaning of life beyond 50?’ How to bridge the restructured generational gap? And so on.
World Medicine
Dr. Dietrich Gronemeyer
World Medicine takes us far beyond conventional medicine to explore the inner circles of healers and shamans in the regions of alternative medicines. Dr. Gronemeyer encapsulates his travels around the world for the reader and highlights the wealth of resources that can be found in herbs, meditation, to traditional Chinese medicine, and beyond.
Finally Free of Pain and Living Well Again
Dr. Gustav Dobos
Finally Free of Pain and Living Well Again is a ‘How to’ guide on clinically tested strategies to alleviate the symptoms of pain resulting from age- related diseases such as rheumatism, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), migraines, and more. Dr. Dobos shares with us the same techniques he shares with his patients in order to make life more liveable.
The Longevity Diet
Dr. Valter Longo
The Longevity Diet outlines a healthy, easy to follow, eating plan combined with the scientifically engineered fasting-mimicking diet (FMD). Dr. Longo, a biogerontologist and cell biologist, explains how specific diets can dramatically activate stem cells and promote regeneration & rejuvenation in multiple organs - thus reducing the risk of age-related diseases such as diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease.
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