The Age-Free Zone
1999 • rrp $32.95 • Paperback • ISBN:0060988320
This is Dr Sears' first elaboration of the theories underlying his nutrition program since Enter the Zone, with a predictable focus on the ways it extends and improves life.
My verdict
The Age-Free Zone is a thorough account of our hormones' links to nutrition and good health, but I think The Anti Inflammation Zone is a better choice now.
It's certainly not an instructional book if that's what you're after.
Good features
- Very thorough theoretical information (for laypeople).
- It probes our diet's links to other hormones beyond insulin and the eicosanoids.
Not so good features
- Perhaps the theoretical information is too thorough (for laypeople).
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As you can note in the table of contents below Dr Sears covers quite a range of benefits of the Zone in this book, from anti-aging to sex and fertility to mental health.
Contents
| The Age-Free Zone | ||
| Chapter | Page | |
| Acknowledgements | IX | |
| Introduction | XIII | |
| Part I: Hormones and aging | ||
| 1 | The quest: longer life or better life? | 3 |
| 2 | Why are we living longer? | 7 |
| 3 | The biological markers of aging | 18 |
| 4 | Hormones: the short course | 24 |
| 5 | Mechanisms of aging: the four pillars of aging | 34 |
| Part II: Beginning your Age-Free Zone Lifestyle today | ||
| 6 | Guaranteed anti-aging: calorie restriction | 55 |
| 7 | The Zone diet: calorie restriction without hunger or deprivation | 62 |
| 8 | Type 2 diabetics: canaries in the coalmine of aging | 88 |
| 9 | Exercise: another "drug" to alter hormones | 99 |
| 10 | The brain: it's a terrible thing to waste | 106 |
| 11 | The Age-Free Zone lifestyle: the self care pyramid | 113 |
| 12 | Your Age-Free Zone report card: the tests you want to pass | 122 |
| Part III: Why the Age-Free Zone lifestyle pyramid works | ||
| 13 | Hormones: the long course | 131 |
| 14 | Insulin: your passport to accelerated aging | 138 |
| 15 | Cortisol: wonder drug of the 50s, messenger of aging in the 90s | 151 |
| 16 | Eicosanoids: your intel computer chip | 161 |
| Part IV: Other hormones and the Age-Free Zone | ||
| 17 | Sex and the Zone for men: the secrets of viagra | 193 |
| 18 | Sex and the Zone for women: where has the fertility gone? | 199 |
| 19 | Estrogen: does every woman need it? | 209 |
| 20 | Testosterone: hormone of strength, hormone of desire | 220 |
| 21 | Growth hormone: turning back the hands of time? | 229 |
| 22 | Serotonin: your morality hormone | 236 |
| 23 | Thyroid: the mystery of metabolism | 243 |
| 24 | DHEA and melatonin: the hype brothers? | 251 |
| 25 | Nitric oxide: the new kid on the block | 260 |
| Part V: What else should you know? | ||
| 26 | Anti-aging supplements: beyond the Age-Free Zone lifestyle pyramid | 269 |
| 27 | The skin Zone: beauty is skin deep | 283 |
| 28 | Emotions: the mind-body-diet connection | 288 |
| 29 | The future of medicine | 294 |
| Appendixes | ||
| A | Resources | 301 |
| B | Glossary | 303 |
| C | A week in the Age-Free Zone | 311 |
| A week in the Zone for the typical female | 311 | |
| A week in the Zone for the typical male | 320 | |
| D | Zone meal tips | 331 |
| E | Zone snacks | 337 |
| F | The fast-food Zone | 339 |
| G | Zone meals for the business traveller | 341 |
| H | References | 343 |
| Index | 401 | |
