Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life (The Dr. Mark Hyman Library Book 11)

by Mark Hyman

James Fries’ landmark study, “Aging, Natural Death, and the Compression of Morbidity,” published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980,1 he made it very clear that if people maintained their ideal weight, didn’t smoke, and exercised regularly, they would live long, healthy, vigorous lives. And when it came time to die, they would go quickly, painlessly, and cheaply. Those who were overweight, smoked, and didn’t exercise died long, painful, expensive deaths. The healthy group dramatically lengthened their years of disease-free life, that is, their health span (how long they maintained their health) and their life span (how many years they lived), while the unhealthy group often spent decades in various states of disease and dysfunction, resulting in a dramatic loss in quality of life and a burden for themselves, their families, and the health care system. Sadly,