So the prescription here isn’t to test your insulin levels and stress, but to move more and eat better.Ĭorrect. Luks about mitochondria, carbs, calorie deficits, the problem with Peloton culture, and why sleep is a cure-all. Shouldn’t we be moving most of the time? Most of the book is like that. After reading it, it feels also incredibly obvious. Luks's main revelation, that exercise doesn’t need to be hard, but constant, feels like a game-changer. But these aren’t inevitable problems, and their solutions are simple: We should eat healthier, we should be very active, we should sleep. Luks shows that heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dementia aren’t so much separate, discrete diseases, but different manifestations of a broader physical decline that attacks the body after years of poor mitochondrial health. Howard Luks lays out the science of achieving this lifestyle, and then goes into the hows. It's not something in the water in the Mediterranean-there are ways to get and stay healthy as we age over here, too.
But there’s no reason why we can’t grow old like a Sardinian, who generally can live well for a long time, grow very old, and go quickly and painlessly when it's time. Age-in America, at least-seems to coincide with getting progressively less healthy.
Aging into our 80s and 90s conjures up images of repeat hospital visits, immobility, and a growing cluster of health problems. How do we live longer? Do we want to? It can be a mixed bag.
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