Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

Version: Abridged
Author: Chang-Rae Lee , Chris Crowley , Henry S. Lodge
Narrator: Don Leslie , Rick Adamson
Genres: Health & Fitness, Men's Health, Aging & Longevity
Publisher: Highbridge Company
Date: January 2005
Length: 7 hours, 45 minutes
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Overview

YOUNGER NEXT YEAR draws on the very latest science of aging to show how men 50 or older can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, and continue to live like fifty-year-olds until well into their eighties. To enjoy life and be stronger, healthier, and more alert. To stave off 70% of the normal decay associated with aging (weakness, sore joints, apathy). and to eliminate over 50% of all illness and potential injuries. This is the real thing, a program that will work for anyone who decides to apply himself to "Harry's Rules."

Harry is Henry S. Lodge, M.D., a specialist in internal medicine and preventive healthcare. Chris Crowley is Harry's 70-year-old patient who's stronger today (and skiing better) than when he was 40. Together, in alternating chapters that are lively, sometimes outspoken, and always utterly convincing, they spell out Harry's Rules and the science behind them. The rules are deceptively simple: Exercise Six Days a Week, Eat What You Know You Should, Connect to Other People and Commit to Feeling Passionate About Something. The science, simplified and demystified, ranges from molecular biology of growth and decay to how our bodies and minds evolved (and why they fare so poorly in our sedentary, all-feast, no-famine culture). The result is nothing less than a paradigm shift in our view of aging.

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Younger Next Year

by Reed
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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by Buzz
  • Book Rating: 5/5

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Reviews (4)

Younger Next Year

Written by Reed on September 11th, 2009

  • Book Rating: 4/5

I was not excited about this book although a friend recommended it. I really enjoyed reading it and can see some improvements that have made my life more fun.

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Written by Buzz on May 1st, 2009

  • Book Rating: 5/5

This was a great book for those who wonder how to get fit and stay fit after middle age. This book changed the way I worked out and my attitude about aging. I'm age 55 and once was 330 pounds. Now I'm about 185 and run a couple of miles a day and hit the gym most days of the week. YNY helped with some significant suggestions, and eight rules. Sure, a lot is common sense; eat less, move more. But the autobiographical tales and the medical science are combined entertainingly.

"Darwinian"

Written by Steve Y on May 8th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 1/5

This is less a review and more just a "head's up." I had to bail out on this one. The good doctor bases his theory on "theory". Specifically, what he believes is based on "evolution," and if the term "Darwinian" was used once it was used a thousand times. With all his education, practice, and research, you might think, perhaps, he would come to the conclusion that this unique structure we call a body is pretty darn intelligently designed; not a "hocus-pocus" act of random events. Believe what you will at your own peril, but if you figure your uncle was not a monkey, you might want to pass on this one, too. Zero stars is the real rating I'd give.

Younger Next Year: A Man's Guide to Living

Written by DAS on November 26th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Excellent book. Motivating, compelling, informing. I even bought a paper copy after listening to the CDs so that I could review the information again. If you've ever wondered exactly why you should exercise more, eat better, etc., this book explains with just enough science so that you say, "now I see!" - which in my case, makes it easier for me to be motivated to take better care of myself. The book is geared towards men in their late 40s, 50s, or 60s.

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Younger Next Year

by Reed
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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by Buzz
  • Book Rating: 5/5

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Author Details

Author Details

Lee, Chang-Rae

Chang-Rae Lee was born in South Korea and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was three. A graduate of Yale College, he is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon.

Crowley, Chris

Chris Crowley, 73, is a former litigator (Davis Polk & Wardwell) who retired in 1990 to ski, sail, bike, play tennis, cook, write these books, and take his passion for them on the road.

Lodge, Henry S.

Henry S. Lodge, M.D., 49, a board-certified internist, is listed variously as "One of the Best Doctors in New York/America/the World." He heads a 23-doctor practice in Manhattan and is a member of the clinical faculty at Columbia Medical School. Both authors are contributing experts to HealthCentral.com. They live in New York City.