Michael Fossel - The Telomerase Revolution: The Enzyme That Holds the Key to Human Aging and Will Soon Lead to Longer, Healthier Lives

The Telomerase Revolution is a remarkable book, telling a fascinating story that pulls together at last a single coherent theory of how and why growing old leads to so many different forms of illness. It also offers a tantalizing promise that we might soon know not only how to cure and prevent age-related diseases, but how to reset the aging process itself. Michael Fossel is a radical optimist.

Matt Ridley, author of Genome and The Rational Optimist

The Telomerase Revolution breaks down centuries of human thought on aging and uproots outdated ideologies that have led to nothing but worthless snake oil products. Dr. Fossels exciting book is opening doors to extended healthspan that can change human history, and its all grounded in solid scientific research.

Noel Patton, founder and chairman of T.A. Sciences

Michael Fossels compelling argument for the telomere approach to reversing aging isnt just worth a lookits like reading the words of Virgil as he leads us along the mysteries of aging.

Alexey Olovnikov, PhD, Institute of Biochemical Physics and Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. Fossel has made a superb case for his belief that telomeres and telomerase play an essential role in the biology of aging both in humans and in other animals. His views were once in the minority, but more recent advances in how these molecules work have made his present book a valuable contribution to our understanding of the fundamental biology of aging. Adding to its value is that it is clearly written and well organized.

Leonard Hayflick, PhD, Professor of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco

Aging is not an irreversible degenerative process, but an epigenetically determined physiological mechanism, which must not be confused with age-related diseases caused by lifestyle choices. Here, we have an effective and clear guide to understanding how we get old and how to tame aging in a few years.

Giacinto Libertini, MD, member of the Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology

First hardcover edition 2015 by Michael Fossel

First trade paperback edition 2017

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First E-Book Edition: October 2015.

ISBN 978-1-944648-33-6 (trade paperback)

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Fossel, Michael.

The telomerase revolution : the enzyme that holds the key to human aging, and will soon lead to longer, healthier lives / Michael Fossel.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-941631-69-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-941631-70-6 (electronic) 1. AgingMolecular aspects. 2. Telomerase. I. Title.

QP86.F69 2015

612.67dc23

2015026608

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To those with minds open to logic and eyes open to data: May others be as open to you as you are to the world around you.

To those who, aging and suffering, hear others tell you nothing can be done: Theyre wrong.