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THE WHOLE-BODY MICROBIOME |
Over the last decade, we’ve seen the shift from “anti” to “pro” where it concerns the bacteria that make our bodies home. And a healthy microbiome, as it’s called, is being linked to everything from improving cholesterol to reducing dementia risk to extending lifespan in general (a robust and diverse microbiome happens to be another common trait among people living in Blue Zones).
Especially important is the discovery that, after age 65, this collection of microbes “goes off a cliff in terms of composition,” says co-author and Canadian microbiologist Brett Finlay. Considered one of the foremost experts on the subject (and co-author of 2016’s Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children From an Oversanitized World), he spoke to Zoomer about his second book about tending to our microbiome. The good news? No matter your age, beneficial bacteria love healthy lifestyle choices like exercising and eating a diet full of fruits and vegetables. With his finger on the latest findings, Finlay has more on these and other tips for being a five-star host. |
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LIFESPAN |
A geneticist and professor at Harvard Medical School, Sinclair has been on Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list for his work on prevention and reversal of age-related disease and deterioration. He’s confident we can live healthier for longer — that is, we can increase our health span, and his first book offers a compelling prescription,including how an antioxidant in wine and chocolate can help. A little stress on the body can also go a long way, and that includes intermittent fasting, as Sinclair explained in an interview with Zoomer this past fall. “Your body should be a bellwether, and your doctor should let you know if fasting is fine. But if you are in good health, I really couldn’t recommend anything better for long-term health than being hungry a little bit during the day.” |
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BREATH |
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art is a 2020 popular science book by journalist James Nestor. No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.
Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again. |
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THE LONGEVITY PARADOX |
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a ground-breaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life.From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging does not have to mean decline. World-renowned surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry has been treating mature patients for most of his career. He knows that everyone thinks they want to live forever, until they hit middle age and witness the suffering of their parents and even their peers. So how do we solve the paradox of wanting to live to a ripe old age—but enjoy the benefits of youth?
This ground-breaking book holds the answer. Working with thousands of patients, Dr. Gundry has discovered that the “diseases of aging” we most fear are not simply a function of age; rather, they are a by-product of the way we have lived over the decades. In The Longevity Paradox, he maps out a new approach to aging well—one that is based on supporting the health of the “oldest” parts of us: the microorganisms that live within our bodies.
Our gut bugs—the bacteria that make up the microbiome—largely determine our health over the years. From diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s to common ailments like arthritis to our weight and the appearance of our skin, these bugs are in the driver’s seat, controlling our quality of life as we age.
The good news is, it’s never too late to support these microbes and give them what they need to help them—and you—thrive. In The Longevity Paradox, Dr. Gundry outlines a nutrition and lifestyle plan to support gut health and live well for decades to come. A progressive take on the new science of aging, The Longevity Paradox offers an action plan to prevent and reverse disease as well as simple hacks to help anyone look and feel younger and more vital. |
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THE COMPLETE BOOK OF YOGA |
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind..in the quest for understanding one’s own mind, body, and soul, and to attain liberation, each man seeks spirituality as per his own means and understanding. Yoga, with its origin dating back to ancient India, has always been considered a pathway of achieving moksha. This edition combines the four paths of yoga as expounded by Swami Vivekananda in the nineteenth century. They include the three yoga’s mentioned in the Bhagat Gita, Karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnna yoga and Raja yoga, which is based on Maharshi Patanjali’s yoga sutras, and together they speak to the active, the emotional, the mystic, and the philosophical inside us. Complete with timeless universal wisdom, and not restricted to as an as and physical exercises, The yogic practices explained by Vivekananda become a way of life and hence lead to the realisation of the absolute. |
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PATANJALI’S YOGA SUTRAS |
Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff from taking various forms. Patanjali?s yoga sutras, written almost two millennia ago, is a comprehensive text on the theory and practice of yoga. From concentration, its spiritual uses and practice, to manifestation and the process of attaining liberation, the aphorisms state the path to self-realization. One of the key texts of classical yoga, this edition of Patanjali’s yoga sutras is a translation by Swami Vivekananda. It includes the Sanskrit text, its transliteration, and translation followed by an in-depth commentary of each sutra. |
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