Breaking the Age Barrier

Introduction

For anyone who is interested in maintaining health and vitality as they age, this book is an excellent resource! Breaking the Age Barrier offers up-to-date, practical advice on how to stay healthy, fit and young at heart—regardless of your age or health status. In an easy-to-use style, it explains the aging process and shows how to optimize your health and longevity through nutrition, diet and lifestyle.

Specifically, Breaking the Age Barrier provides timely, factual information on the steps you can take as an individual to reduce your risk of age-related disease, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity. Regardless of family history or past health status, Breaking the Age Barrier guides you to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fitness in creating optimal health.

Accompanied by questionnaires and surveys, Breaking the Age Barrier provides a hands-on approach in devising a custom tailored wellness plan suited to a person’s individual needs. By showing you how to take responsibility for your personal health, it helps you to achieve your longevity potential—and at the same time enhance the quality of your life.

What the Experts Had to Say

Farid Wassef and Sherry Torkos, who have coauthored Breaking the Age Barrier, are highly regarded pharmacists and nutritional experts in the field of healthcare. Based upon evidence-based scientific research and their own clinical experience many of the well-known causes of aging can be modified to ensure healthy aging and maximize functional life span.

Many well-respected experts in the field of optimal healthcare have reviewed their book. Here is what they had to say:

“Aging has not been shown to cause any specific disease. Chronic diseases are not just a result of flawed genes, trauma or infection, but also a result of an inappropriate connection between genetic uniqueness and environmental factors. These environmental factors include diet, activity patterns, environmental exposures, and stress and lifestyle choices.

The deciphering of the “code of life” that is locked into our chromosomes the past decade has uncovered an unexpected observation. Our genes do not tell us how we are going to die, but rather how we should live to maximize our genetic potential and get the optimal functional health from our genetic legacy.

As pharmacists who specialize in functional medicine, Wassef and Torkos know what is happening at the forefront of the nutritional and biomedical sciences. They have written a book that can and should be used to help the reader apply this exciting 21st century information that indicates how we should treat our genes to have them return on the investment with good health and a sustained level of function throughout the whole of our life. I believe that anyone applying the principles described in “Breaking the Age Barrier” will be rewarded with improved functional health at any age.”

Excerpt taken from the foreword provided by Jeffrey Bland PhD, Institute for Functional Medicine

"If you are interested in learning about aging, its causes, and what to do about slowing its progress, this book is filled with valuable information."
--James F. Balch MD, co-author Prescription for Nutritional Healing

"Breaking the Age Barrier is a valuable resource that provides the latest information on strategies to slow down the aging process, extend your life span and optimize your health."
--Michael T. Murray, N.D.
Coauthor of the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATURAL MEDICINE