Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever | 
|  | | | Title: | Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever | | Author: | Ray Kurzweil
Terry Grossman | | Publisher: | Plume | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 27 September, 2005 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0452286670 / 9780452286672 | | List Price: | $17.00 | | You Save: | $5.44 | | Amazon Price: | $11.56 | |
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Tap today’s technological breakthroughs to live longer and better. Startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology occur practically every day. The rewards of this research, some of it as spectacular as science fiction, are practically in our grasp. Fantastic Voyage shows us how we can use these new technologies to live longer than previously imaginable. The authors take the reader on a journey to undreamed-of vitality with a comprehensive investigation into the cutting-edge science regarding diet, supplementation, genetics, detoxification, and the hormones involved with aging and youth. By following their program, which includes such simple recommendations as eating a balanced, low- glycemic-index diet, and taking powerful anti-aging nutritional supplements, anyone will be able to add years of healthy, active life.
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The idea behind Kurzweil and Grossman's Fantastic Voyage is that if you can make it through the next 50 years, you might become immortal. How will that be possible? Through some rather science fictional steps, it turns out, including taking advantage of the latest in biotechnological breakthroughs and not-yet-invented nanotechnology. Is all this longing for immortality driven by an obsession with youth or a fear of death? Readers can judge for themselves, as both Kurzweil and Grossman reveal the personal histories that led them to develop this plan. Fantastic Voyage is written in an easy-to-understand tone, with lots of sidebars giving examples of what the future holds for medicine and health. Whether or not you think that science will find a way to keep our bodies or our disembodied minds alive forever, this book is full of diet and lifestyle tips. For instance, the authors suggest carefully controlling the body's overall pH at an alkaline level, meditating, eating a diet composed mostly of vegetables and protein, and taking loads of supplements (Kurzweil downs about 250 pills each day). The dietary options presented here will mostly only be practical for people whose income levels can support buying organic produce, fresh fish and meat, and top-shelf supplements. The authors cavalierly state that we are living in a "time of abundance," but it seems likely that most who are able to follow this regimen will be Americans of a fairly high socioeconomic class. --Therese Littleton
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• Hopeful Outlook On Improving Health Through An Engineer's Eyes 06 December, 2008
If your a non-medical scientist or engineer you will probably appreciate the style and content of this get healthy-live longer book by a well known inventor and scientist. I found the book encouraging enough to make you feel you can improve your health although I think he gets a bit extreme at times. Also a bit of his information is outdated or incorrect. However, overall it is still good enough to be recommended for those who want a little more explanation than the typical how to be healthy layman's book. If you want a simpler, less detailed book there are others like the Pritikin Edge (but it won't have quite the engineer's viewpoint and it will be less dramatic in what you can expect to improve).
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• Eat Right, Exercise Often, Reduce Stress, And Buy Tons Of Crap From Us. 12 September, 2008
A few months back, there was a lot of hype in the media about Reseveratrol. That's the miracle compound in red wine that explains why French people don't get heart attacks, despite having a very unhealthy diet. Being one with an interest in healthy living, or more accurately, diet and nutrition with the aim of enhancing performance (mental and physical), I picked this book up because it includes information on recent developments. You wanna know what it says?
Eat right, exercise often, reduce stress and buy tons of crap from them. The former three are pretty common sense, and I think you'd have to have been in a coma for the last 40 years not to know what they mean. The latter is a bit... off-putting.
Whenever I see a statement as obscenely hyperbolic as "Live Long Enough to Live Forever" I usually take that as a flashing red sign with 12 foot letters glaring "We are completely full of sh**". However, most of what's in here is sound advice and with an interest in marketing, perhaps the ludicrous sub-title will help this book find it's way into the hands of someone who needs it.
Those of us not taken in by such cheap sales tactics would be better served by college level nutrition and exercise physiology books - both of which will be available at your local college bookstore.
Unsuitable for anyone with a basic understanding of nutrition, but that's not the target demographic anyways.
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• Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Forever 04 September, 2008
This is a awesome book! Well written and easy to understand.
It is a must read for everyone who wants to live a long and healthly life.
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• Eye Opening And Mind Altering 12 October, 2008
Very good book. I share the authors' views about the relentless march of technology and the end result of gaining total biological control over our bodies. More specifically, over my lifetime I can expect to see massive steps forward and finally see age related death and illness stopped entirely. They all I have to worry about is soccer moms talking on the phone in the Suburban at 80mph and TERRORISTS.
My nutritional and medical knowledge was pretty limited before reading this book. The book is filled with detailed scientific explanations of how various processes in the body work. I have a much greater understanding about nutrition and the role of different nutrients. I feel like I have an in depth understanding of the causes of the most dangerous diseases (e.g. Heart Disease, Cancer, Alzheimer's) and I understand what I can do to keep my body in optimal condition to delay the onset of said diseases. Building an understanding of these things provides the motivation necessary to make the correct nutritional and lifestyle choices. Reading this book caused me to drastically re-align my diet to eliminate or limit all the common components which are essentially poisons (sugar, simple carbs, saturated fats, cholesterol, etc...). Understanding how everything works makes it easy to choose the right things and stick with it.
The time is certainly coming soon when aging and age-related diseases are a thing of the past. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure I live long enough to see it. It would be a great tragedy to die of old age only a few years before aging is obsolete.
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• Great Info! 12 October, 2008
This book was just what I hoped it would be.
Excellent recommendations, summaries to make it simple for me, as well as loads of technical info to satisfy my scientific mind. Plus, as Kurzweil always does, lots and lots of references for me to do my own research if I choose.
Filled with scientific and medical information, no hocus pocus or mysticism. It's all information that's out there already, but it's really nice to have someone put it all together in one place for me and explain it in plain english.
If you liked his books on The Singularity and want to be there when it happens, then this is a "must read". See you then!
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