The Promise of Immortality

Live in good health for as long as possible! Yes you can! Every day our life expectancy increases by six hours thanks to the advances of medical science and our improving lifestyle. Can we do better? Can we go as far as Jeanne Calment the oldest person to have ever lived who reached 122 years of age? Yes it is possible! Today we are able to make a human cell immortal; what we do not yet know is how to do this for all of our cells in all of our tissues all of our organs and for all of our functions. The author of this book draws us into the magical landscape of our 60 trillion intelligent cells. He shows us how aging gradually insinuates itself into our DNA. More importantly he shares with us the incredible promises of stem cells telomerase biotechnology nanomedicine and finally the critical impact of a healthy lifestyle.