Younger Next Year

Smart women don't grow older. They grow younger.   A book of hope, Younger Next Year for Women shows you how to become functionally younger for the next five to ten years, and continue to live thereafter with newfound vitality. Learn how the Younger Next Year plan of following "Harry's Rules"-a program of exercise, diet, and maintaining emotional connections-will not only help you turn back your physical biological clock, but will improve memory, cognition, mood, and more. In two new chapters, prominent neurologist Allan Hamilton explains how the program directly affects your brain-all the way down to the cellular level-while Chris Crowley, in his inimitable voice, gives the personal side of the story. In other words, how to live brilliantly for the three decades or more after menopause. The results will be amazing.   The bestselling, breakthrough book on reversing the aging process for women, updated for its 15th anniversary to include important information about how the Younger Next Year rules affect the brain as well as the body. Yes, you can be functionally younger year after year, by following Harry and Chris's rules for exercise, eating, and connection.   Chris Crowley is a former litigator (Davis Polk & Wardwell), the coauthor, with Henry S. Lodge, of the Younger Next Year books, and the coauthor, with Jen Sacheck, PhD, of Thinner This Year. Though in his eighties, he fully lives the life, skiing black diamonds and routinely doing thirty-mile bike rides. He and his wife live in Connecticut and New York City. Henry S. Lodge, MD, FACP, headed a 20-doctor practice in Manhattan and was the Robert Burch Family Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.   Allan J. Hamilton, MD, FACS, a Harvard-trained brain surgeon, is the executive director of the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center. Dr. Hamilton has authored more than 20 medical textbook chapters and 50 peer-review research articles, and has served on the editorial board of several medical journals. He is the author of The Scalpel and the Soul, Zen Mind, Zen Horse, and Lead with Your Heart. He lives near Tucson, Arizona. Gail Sheehy is the author of 17 books, including Passages, which was named one of the most important books of our time by Library of Congress. As a literary journalist, Sheehy was one of the original contributors to New York magazine and has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984.  She has covered national and world leaders and broken many cultural taboos. ​Acknowledgments   Foreword by Gail Sheehy   Introduction   PART ONE: TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR BODY   Chapter One: The Next Forty Years   Chapter Two: Lunch with Captain Midnight   Chapter Three: The New Science of Aging   Chapter Four: Swimming Against the Tide   Chapter Five: The Biology of Growth and Decay:   Chapter Six: Life Is an Endurance Event: Train for It   Chapter Seven: The Biology of Exercise   Chapter Eight: The Heart of the Matter: Aerobics   Chapter Nine: The Kedging Trick   Chapter Ten: A World of Pain: Strength Training   Chapter Eleven: The Biology of Strength Training   Chapter Twelve: "So, How Do I Look?"   Chapter Thirteen: Chasing the Iron Bunny   Chapter Fourteen: Don't You Lose a Goddamn Pound!   Chapter Fifteen: The Biology of Nutrition: Thinner Next Year   Chapter Sixteen: "The Drink"   Chapter Seventeen: Menopause: The Natural Transition   PART TWO: TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE   Chapter Eighteen: "Teddy Doesn't Care!"   Chapter Nineteen: The Limbic Brain and the Biology of Emotion   Chapter Twenty: Connect and Commit   Chapter Twenty-One: New Chapter on Brain Health by Chris Crowley   Chapter Twenty-Two: New Chapter on Brain Health by Allan J. Hamilton MD   Chapter Twenty-Three: Relentle

Congratulations, you are about to get younger!   Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times bestselling program, you'll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging-weakness, sore joints, bad balance-and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following "Harry's Rules" for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain-all the way down to the cellular level. The message is simple: Learn to train for the next third of your life, and you'll have a ball.     The bestselling, breakthrough book on reversing the aging process, updated for its 15th anniversary to include important information about how the Younger Next Year rules affect the brain as well as the body. Yes, you can be functionally younger year after year, by following Harry and Chris's rules for exercise, eating, and connection. Chris Crowley is a former litigator (Davis Polk & Wardwell), the coauthor, with Henry S. Lodge, of the Younger Next Year books, and the coauthor, with Jen Sacheck, PhD, of Thinner This Year. Though in his eighties, he fully lives the life, skiing black diamonds and routinely doing fifty-mile bike rides. He and his wife live in Connecticut and New York City. Henry S. Lodge, MD, FACP, headed a 20-doctor practice in Manhattan and was the Robert Burch Family Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Allan J. Hamilton, M.D., a Harvard-trained brain sur­geon, is the Regents' Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. He is also the author of The Scalpel and the Soul, Zen Mind, Zen Horse, and Lead with Your Heart. He lives near Tucson, Arizona. Acknowledgments   Introduction   PART ONE: TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR BODY   Chapter One: The End of the World   Chapter Two: How's Your Wife?   Chapter Three: The New Science of Aging   Chapter Four: Swimming Against the Tide   Chapter Five: The Biology of Growth and Decay:   Chapter Six: Life Is an Endurance Event: Train for It   Chapter Seven: The Biology of Exercise   Chapter Eight: The Heart of the Matter: Aerobics   Chapter Nine: The Kedging Trick   Chapter Ten: A World of Pain: Strength Training   Chapter Eleven: The Biology of Strength Training   Chapter Twelve: The Ugly Stick and Other Curiosities   Chapter Thirteen: Chasing the Iron Bunny   Chapter Fourteen: Don't You Lose a Goddamn Pound!   Chapter Fifteen: The Biology of Nutrition: Thinner Next Year   Chapter Sixteen: "The Drink"   PART TWO: TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE   Chapter Seventeen: "Teddy Doesn't Care!"   Chapter Eighteen: The Limbic Brain and the Biology of Emotion   Chapter Nineteen: Connect and Commit   Chapter Twenty: Things That Go Bump in the Morning: The New Sexual Life 284   Chapter Twenty-One: New Chapter on Brain Health by Chris Crowley   Chapter Twenty-Two: New Chapter on Brain Health by Allan J. Hamilton MD   Chapter Twenty-Three: Relentless Optimism   Appendix   Notes on Chapter Twenty-Two   Harry's Rules   Author Notes

The definitive exercise book that the one-million-plus readers of the Younger Next Year® series have been waiting for-and the exercise book that takes the intimidation out of starting a workout routine. Based on the science that shows how we can turn back our biological clocks by a combination of aerobics and strength fitness, it's a guide that will show every reader how to live with newfound vibrancy, strength, endurance, confidence, and joy-and it goes deep enough to be your exercise companion for life, even if you eventually take it to Masters levels. Younger Next Year: The Exercise Program combines the best information from the New York Times bestselling Younger Next Year with the cutting-edge knowledge and workouts from Thinner This Year. Here is the revolutionary 10-minute warm-up (critical for maintaining ankle, shoulder, and hip mobility). The five amazing things aerobic exercise will do for your body, and finding the method that works for you. How to get fit better and quicker with intervals. The importance of "whole-body" strength training and "rebooting the core." Plus, the Twenty-Five Sacred Exercises that will be the foundation for your strength-training routine for life.   Chris Crowley, a former litigator (Davis Polk & Wardwell), is the coauthor, with Henry S. Lodge, of the Younger Next Year books, and the coauthor, with Jen Sacheck, PhD, of Thinner This Year. Though in his eighties, he fully lives the life, skiing black diamonds and routinely doing thirty-mile bike rides. He and his wife live in Connecticut and New York City.   Henry S. Lodge, MD, FACP, listed variously as "One of the Best Doctors in New York/America/the World," headed a twenty-doctor practice in Manhattan and was the Robert Burch Family Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.

"A great book for back-pain sufferers and their caregivers alike."-Todd J. Albert MD, Surgeon-in-Chief and Medical Director, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York If there's one lesson to learn from the national bestselling Younger Next Year series, it's that we can dramatically change our quality of life by taking the right kind of care of ourselves. This is just as true for back pain. Formulated by Dr. Jeremy James-whose practice has cured an astonishing 80% of patients-and #1 bestselling Younger Next Year coauthor Chris Crowley, here is a step-by-step program of simple exercises and behavioral changes that will help readers find a neutral spine, realign their core, learn healthy new ways to move in the world-and virtually eliminate back pain. So follow Jeremy's rules-like #1. Stop Doing Dumb Stuff, #2. Be Still So You Can Heal, #7. Stand Tall for the Long Hail-and find a lifetime of relief.   A revolutionary behavioral/whole-body approach to back pain and fitness, from the coauthor of the perennially bestselling Younger Next Year series and back expert Dr. Jeremy James. The Younger Next Year Back Book method, which identifies behaviors that trigger pain and teaches new movements to heal the pain, is proven to reduce pain dramatically so that back pain sufferers can get on with their lives. Chris Crowley, a former litigator (Davis Polk & Wardwell), is the coauthor, with Henry S. Lodge, of the Younger Next Year books, and the coauthor, with Jen Sacheck, PhD, of Thinner This Year. Though in his eighties, he fully lives the life, skiing black diamonds and routinely doing fifty-mile bike rides. He and his wife live in New York City. Jeremy James, DC, CSCS, is Director of the Aspen Club Back Institute. He became a Doctor of Chiropractic (instead of going into traditional medicine like almost everyone else in his family) because of his own struggles with sports-induced back pain as a young athlete, and developed his behavioral/whole body method while working with serious athletes for over a decade. He lives with his wife and son in Aspen, Colorado. "In the latest installment of the Younger Next Year books, series coauthor Crowley and chiropractor James empower people with often-agonizing back pain. So instructive and descriptive are Crowley and James that everyone curious about the mechanics of the back and everyone with back pain will benefit from their easy-to-understand guide to preventing and treating that common ailment." -Booklist "This is a great book for back pain sufferers and their caregivers alike. The guidance offered will allow the afflicted to get on a path to recovery and wellness-to get back to what they love to do." -Todd J. Albert, MD, Surgeon in Chief and Medical Director, Hospital for Special Surgery