Breaking the Age Code

How Your Beliefs about Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

English language

Published Dec. 8, 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers, William Morrow.

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978-0-06-305317-5
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Yale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years.

The often-surprising results of Levy's science offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. She demonstrates that many health problems formerly considered to be entirely due to the aging process, such as memory loss, hearing decline, and cardiovascular events, are instead influenced by the negative age beliefs that dominate in the US and other ageist countries. It's time for all of us to rethink aging and Breaking the Age Code shows us how to do just that.

Based on her innovative research, stories that range from pop culture to the corporate boardroom, and her own life, Levy shows how age beliefs …

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Literally one line of useful information, padded out to 300 pages

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2022 reads, #55. I complain here often about the 21st-century trend of releasing nonfiction books that contain only a blog article's worth of information, but has padded that article out to 300 pages so that greedy corporate publishers can charge us $28.99 for the "privilege" of reading that blog article. But Becca Levy's worthless Breaking the Age Code takes the cake when it comes to this, a 300-page book retailing for $28.99 that literally (and I'm not exaggerating here) presents us with exactly one line of useful information in the entire book, that information being, "If you think young, you'll feel young!" That already feels spurious to me, especially with her continual insistence that when anything bad physically happens to an old person, it's exclusively because they willed it with their mind to happen, and that all their problems would magically go away if they would simply envision themselves as …

Subjects

  • wellness
  • health
  • aging
  • ageism
  • brain
  • self-help