Praise for
YOUNGER YOU
Younger You challenges the long-held notion that we are helpless as it relates to the seemingly inexorable decline in our physical health as time marches on. Dr. Fitzgerald makes it clear that we can absolutely change our destiny as it relates to various parameters associated with aging and provides a straightforward program for achieving this important goal.
David Perlmutter , MD, New York Times bestseller author of Grain Brain
It is a new eraaging backward is no longer a fantasy; it is now a fact proven by clinical trial. Dr. Kara Fitzgerald, lead author of this paradigm-shifting trial, now describes her approach in her new book, Younger You . This is the first book in the new era of aging reversal medicine and health, and for all of us who are aging, this is a must read.
Dale Bredesen, MD , professor and author of the New York Times bestseller, The End of Alzheimers
Younger You leads us through a compelling narrative linking food, genes, epigenetic programming of genes by life experiences and how this guides us to take control of our own lives. The book provides an engaging, clear, and understandable presentation of the complex science of epigenetics and the developmental origins of health and disease for the general audience.
Moshe Szyf, PhD, McGill University Medical School
As a scientist and educator in nutritional epigenetics and longevity, I commend Karas extraordinary ability to make science accessible and actionable to a lay audience. Her guest lecture for my course on the biology of longevity at Stanford University drew rave reviews from my students. I will recommend Karas new book Younger You to my students who want to deepen their knowledge and practice of nutritional longevity.
Dr. Lucia Aronica , PhD
Dr. Fitzgerald is among the first to realize that epigenetics is destined to be a game changer for twenty-first-century medicine. Now she shares her program to modify our epigenetics safely, with exercise, a natural diet, and a surprising array of other practices. Lets try it!
Josh Mitteldorf, PhD, author of Cracking the Age Code
Dr. Fitzgerald has published groundbreaking research that proves that we can change the aging of our body through a specific lifestyle intervention program. Now she has made this program available for all of us to benefit from in this extraordinary book. This is a must for anyone interested in what they can do in slowing the aging process naturally.
Jeffrey Bland, PhD , president, Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Fitzgerald, Kara N., author.
Title: Younger you : reduce your bio age and live longer, better / Dr. Kara N. Fitzgerald.
Description: First edition. | New York : Hachette Go, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021038350 | ISBN 9780306924835 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780306924859 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Aging--Nutritional aspects. | Aging--Prevention. | Functional foods. | Longevity.
Classification: LCC RA776.75 .F58 2022 | DDC 613.2dc23/eng/20211005
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021038350
ISBNs: 9780306924835 (hardcover); 9780306924859 (ebook)
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For my daughter, Isabella James, with whom I hope to spend many more years by following this plan as my foundational anti-aging strategy
and for my patients, colleagues, and friends, for your faith in this work
and for everyone who, like me, feels empowered by the idea that we can start immediately to safely and effectively turn back the biological hands of time.
W hat if I told you, you could be younger tomorrow than you are today?
Some part of you would probably be very excited. You did, after all, pick up a book called Younger You. But theres probably another part of you that would be thinking something along the lines of, Yeah, right.
But what if I followed that up by saying, its true? And that you can do it simply by changing your diet and making some very doable modifications to your lifestylein other words, without expensive or high-risk drugs, or fasting for twenty-two hours a day, or any other so-called biohacking strategies?
No way, youd think.
I have two words for you: Yes way.
In fact, I have a two-month program that reversed the bio age of its participants by over three years.
I am the lead author on the groundbreaking, rigorous clinical pilot trial that asked participants to eat plenty of delicious food and adopt a handful of moderate practicessuch as getting seven hours of sleep a night and practicing relaxation for ten minutes twice a dayfor eight weeks. We measured their biological age before the study began and again when it ended. And frankly, the results blew our doors offour study participants lowered their biological age by an average of 3.23 years (compared to the control group, who received no intervention)!
This is where I need to point out that our study, while rigorous, was small. Its technically a pilot study, meaning its designed to provide proof of concept and open the door to larger studies (which we are working on as I type). And yet, combined with our years of clinical experience using the program that we studied and that I outline in this book, it is as clear that we are headed in the right direction as it is that we need to keep researching.
In this book, as I discuss strategies to reverse biological age, youll see that much of the research I cite is on animals or in human cells. While there is some research in humans (which I cover), there is significantly less (hence our trial being first of its kind). Although this is a young field, multiple lines of evidence converge on the conclusion that we might be able to control how long and how well we live through a combination of diet and lifestyle changes. In this book, Ill show you how you can follow essentially the same path that our study partipants and clinical patients have followed to become healthier and younger, too.