Spring Chicken

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'Startling...warm, delightfully curious'. * Sunday Times * 'An intoxicating mixture of deep reporting, fascinating science and sound advice'. * Press Association * "Spring Chicken is an utterly marvelous book - a guided tour of a fantastic, counterintuitive landscape (that happens to be your body), and also a whip-smart guide to living a longer and healthier life." -- Daniel Coyle, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Talent Code</i> "Spring Chicken is a masterful exploration of the fantasy and fact surrounding one of the most fundamental questions of humankind: why do we age?" -- David Perlmutter, MD, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar-Your Brain's Silent Killers</i> "Bill Gifford's terrific Spring Chicken gives us a riveting account of the most important change of the last century-the doubling of our lifespans-and an intimate vision of what it will take to not only keep that trend going, but keep ourselves healthy and vibrant as we age." -- Steven Johnson, <i>New York Times bestseller</i> of <i>How We Got to Now</i> "Gifford skilfully navigates the many strands of aging research to create an entertaining narrative of the perils of getting old." * Kirkus Reviews * "You need this book. I grabbed it like a life preserver, and that's exactly what it is. Spring Chicken demolishes the worst hoaxes in anti-aging treatments - like crushed dog testicles, human growth hormone, and Suzanne Somers - and leaves you with the good news: by adopting a few easy-to-understand, easy-to- follow discoveries, you might just deactivate the time bombs in your fat cells and learn to follow in the springy, "successfully aging" footsteps of a 92-year-old pole vaulter." -- Christopher McDougall, New York Times bestselling author of <i>Born to Run</i> and <i>Natural Born Heroes</i>