Younger Next Year

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.    

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.   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. ​Allan J. Hamilton, MD, is a Harvard-trained brain surgeon, a renowned horse trainer, a developer of equine-assisted learning programs, and the author of Lead with Your Heart and Zen Mind, Zen Horse (Gold Nautilus Award winner). He is a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona and a medical script consultant for the hit television series Grey’s Anatomy. He raises Lipizzan horses on a small ranch on the outskirts of 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