Nicholas Perricone - The Perricone Promise: Look Younger Live Longer in Three Easy Steps

The program herein is not intended to replace the services of trained health professionals, or be a substitute for medicaladvice. You are advised to consult with your health care professional with regard to matters relating to your health, andin particular regarding matters that may require diagnosis or medical attention.

Several of the recipes in this book have been adapted with permission from The Whole Food Bible: How to Select & Prepare Safe, Healthful Foods by Chris Kilham, Healing Arts Press, Rochester, VT 05767 Copyright 1991, 1997 by Chris Kilham www.InnerTraditions.com.

Copyright 2004 by Nicholas V Perricone, M.D.

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To my children
Jeffrey, Nicholas, and Caitie

Anne Sellaro again deserves star billing in these acknowledgments. Annes untiring enthusiasm, hard work, creativity, andvision as friend, agent, producer, and collaborator continue to help me share my message and mission with millions of peopleworldwide.

To Diana Baroni, my extraordinary editor at Warner Books, and the entire Warner team, including publicity expert JenniferRomanello, the sales reps, and the marketing folks.

And to all of my friends and colleagues, including:

Eddie Magnotti

Tony Tiano, Lennlee Keep, Eli Brown, and the team at Santa Fe Productions

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS-TV)

Desiree Gruber and the team at Full Picture

Richard Post

Our retail partners Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Sephora, Saks, Henri Bendel, and Clydes on Madison

Tucker and Josh Greco, Dr. Dale Webb, Kevin Gors

Craig Weatherby

Steve Mirabella Sr.

The staff at N.V. Perricone, M.D., Ltd.

My parents

My brother and sisters, Jimmy, Laura, June, and Barbara

My children, Jeffrey, Nicholas, and Caitie

Beth and Ken Lazer and their children, Kyle, Jack, Dave, and Eric

Sharyn Kolberg

Writing The Perricone Promise has been a great joy for me, because it has allowed me to introduce the latest breakthrough in fighting the cause of agingand age-related diseases: peptides and neuropeptides.

Whether your goal is to try to prevent serious diseases, such as cancer or heart disease, or simply to have wrinkle- or blemish-freeskin, the three simple steps outlined in this book will provide both immediate and longterm age-defying benefits.

This might seem like a pretty lofty claim, but once you understand how it works, it will make perfect sense. My goal is notto introduce you to some wonder drug but rather to enable you to take control of your body and the rate at which it is agingandactually help you put on the brakes.

In The Perricone Promise, I introduce powerful peptides and neuropeptides formulated into various products that have significant antiinflammatory benefitsat the cellular level. (Since inflammation occurs on a cellular level, our tools for fighting the inflammation also need towork on a cellular level.) These are very exciting substances that work:

• As functional foods.
• As nutritional supplements.
• As topical anti-aging therapies.

But these products are not the only tools at our disposal. Another indispensable method for fighting inflammation that deliversgreat results comes from the foods we eat. Sadly, many of our food choices are directly responsible for wrinkles, degenerativediseases, and accelerated aging. In this book, I introduce you to some important foods that may not be in your current diet,and reveal ten amazing and powerful superfoods, as well as herbs and spices, that youll want to incorporate into your diet for their great anti-aging, health benefits. In addition to being rich in flavor, these foods arerich in nutrients and antioxidants. They will help you to not only live longer, but also look younger.

The neuropeptides, peptides, foods, and supplements introduced in these pages provide energy to the cells, helping them tofunction at optimum levels to keep you healthy and active well into middle age and beyond.

The Perricone Promise is my promise to you that these tools will deliver a rejuvenated face and body in just twenty-eight days. How can I makethis claim? Its easy. Because all these foods, supplements, peptides, and neuropeptides, including the topical formulations,are physiologic that is, they enable the body to utilize all their benefits. How? Because they work with the body and not against it, to accomplish their goals.

When we introduce a foreign substance (such as a pharmacologic agent) to the body, its benefit ends when we stop using theproduct or substance. In addition, there may be a host of negative side effects. However, when we deliver substances thatare natural to the body, their therapeutic benefits increase each time, resulting in the ultimate strengthening and rejuvenatingof all organ systems.

The Perricone Promise recommendations work synergistically, both internally and externally, to restore that youthful glow to your skin and vigorand vitality to your body. The side effects? The benefits keep increasing over time. Again, because the method of action isphysiologic, our bodies do not develop resistance or immunity to the effects of these superfoods, neuropeptide technology,powerful antiinflammatory supplementsand, best of all, topical treatments. You will start to see immediate benefits in aslittle as three days, with significant changes to face and body highly visible after the 28-Day Program. The longer you followthe program, the greater the physical and mental benefits.

Wishing you an exciting journey to greater health, beauty, and happiness.

NICHOLAS PERRICONE, M.D.

Madison, Connecticut

June 2004

W hat are you doing for the next twenty-eight days? You could be taking ten years off the way you look and adding ten yearson to your life by following the program laid out for you in the rest of this book.

In the first part of this book, youll discover the breakthroughs on which this book is based. Its a breakthrough for mebecause its the culmination of research Ive been doing for years, research that provides irrefutable proof of the connectionsamong inflammation, aging, and diseaseand tells us what we can do about it.

Youll learn about one of the biggest breakthroughs in anti-aging medicine in yearsprotein-like substances in our bodiescalled peptides and neuropeptides. Youll also discover how they work both for us and against us, and how we can harness thepositive power they offer to reduce harmful inflammationand therefore begin to actually reverse the aging process.

Its not hard to do. Follow the three easy steps in part 2 (the foods, the supplements, the topicals) and put together foryou in part 3 (the Perricone Program), and I promise that within twenty-eight days (or less), youll look younger and feelhealthier than you have in years.

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it cant be done is interrupted by the person who is doingit.

ANONYMOUS

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

EDEN PHILLPOTTS

WHAT IF I WERE TO TELL YOU that we are on the threshold of a revolution that can reverse the signs of aging? And that with this book in hand, by followingjust