An interesting read on how we can challenge what we are told about hitting old age and when our time is up. Looking at our body as a group of molecules and treating it in ways you might not currently utilizing. It’s something to think about and consider.

As someone who frequently thinks about our own mortality and our slowly but inevitable deterioration of health, I found this book really refreshing. It focuses a lot on the history of aging and then goes into ways we can improve the longevity and value of our lives. I haven’t delved into a lot of scientific reading in probably the last decade just picking up little things here and there and I found this book to still be really engaging and well laid out. I ended up reading bits and pieces here and there instead of straight through and I think it made this book more enjoyable. Some things mentioned I’ve read about before others I haven’t either way I am walking away from this book feeling slightly better about aging and with a few new lifestyle changes in my pocket.

The title and subtitle of this book would imply that this is a "how to" book about aging and steps that can be taken to slow down the process. Instead this book goes deeply into the biological and genetic processes of aging and the research that has been done on aging. I am a nutritionist and so am somewhat familiar with human physiology. This book was too complex for me and I think would be too complex for the average lay person interested in health.
There are no "how to" steps in the book other than a small paragraph at the end in which Sinclair shares some of his personal lifestyle and nutrition strategies. The last section in the book was somewhat rambling when talking about the future in terms of technologies, how to provide food for the population, how much the population would grow with a longer lifespan, social security, taxes, hurry, government investment, the right to die, over consumption, and many other topics that are not strictly related to the theme of the book.
I received a complementary copy of this book from the publisher via Net Galley in exchange for my honest review.

This is quite good. A heck of a lot of info packed into this, which essentially covers what might become available in the next 10-40 years, and touches on on the potential impacts on society as a result of people living longer. You're not going to learn how to live longer, but you will learn some interesting stuff. Recommended for curious minds.

I really appreciate the advanced copy for review!!

I have mixed feelings about this book. Scientifically, it's well-laid out and explained, with a lot of great projections for the future. I'm not sure that I, personally, would jump into following some of the recommendations without considerably further research, but there are new ideas presented that would be worth looking into. That said, the third part of the book leaves me troubled. Much like a politician who answers a question with a grand idea, but without really backing up the logistics of said idea, the author proposes a planet that could sustain many more billions of people (if no one is dying, but generations are still being born...) to a reader who very much believes we've reached a level of near-overpopulation already for sustainability. He doesn't present any tangible logistics for this, and since it's a pretty big deal, I'm removing two stars for the third section of the book.