Breaking the Age Code

Name: Breaking the Age Code
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Breaking the Age Code by Becca Levy explores how our perceptions of ageing can influence our health, longevity, and overall well-being. The book delves into scientific studies and real-world examples to show how adopting a positive mindset towards ageing can lead to transformative life changes. Through practical advice, it offers strategies for challenging stereotypes and cultivating a healthier relationship with ageing.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in how your beliefs about ageing can impact your health and well-being. Through engaging research and personal stories, the author explores the surprising effects of age-related stereotypes and offers strategies to embrace a more positive outlook on growing older. Ideal for those keen on personal development and altering perspectives towards age.

Breaking the Age Code

Just changing the way you think about getting older can add 7.6 years to your life.

Esteemed Yale professor Dr Becca Levy is the world’s leading expert and pioneer in the field of ageing.

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Stunning revelations and powerful, scientifically-proven advice on how to live a healthy and vibrant long life from the world's leading expert and pioneer in the field of ageing. Just changing the way you think about getting older can add 7.6 years to your life.

'Will shatter some of your basic assumptions about ageing' - Adam Grant

Why do some people age better and live longer than others?

This is the question that led leading expert and researcher Dr Becca Levy to discover a fascinating truth—just changing the way you think about ageing can add years to your life.

In Breaking the Age Code, Dr Levy draws on pioneering research to offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. She demonstrates that many aspects of ageing we consider to be natural, such as memory loss, hearing decline and cardiovascular events, are in fact influenced by our own negative biases, often informed by cultural ageism. She tackles head on how we can shift these outdated ideas at a societal level and what we can do to help ourselves.

Positive, practical and full of fresh insights, Breaking the Age Code will dismantle your assumptions about how we get older and leave you looking forward to what the future holds.

'Breaking the Age Code is less a self-help manual than a manifesto for a revolution' - Anna Maxted, The Times

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Breaking the Age Code by Becca Levy is characterised as a transformative exploration into the psychology of ageing. It challenges common stereotypes about ageing, suggesting that changing these perceptions can lead to longer, healthier lives. The book is praised for its rigorous evidence and fresh perspective, encouraging readers to harness the power of the mind for successful ageing. Experts commend it as an essential read for those interested in understanding and improving the ageing process.

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ISBN: 9781785043550

Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 April 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vermilion

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 157.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 374g

Pages: 304

Collections

Becca Levy Education & Reference Health & Wellness Mindset & Self Help Non-Fiction Penguin Books Personal Development Philosophy & Psychology Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

DR BECCA LEVY is the Professor of Epidemiology and the Chair of the Yale School of Public Health, Social & Behavioral Sciences Department. She is also a Professor of Psychology in the Yale University Department of Psychology. She is the leader and pioneer of a field of study that focuses on how both positive and negative age stereotypes affect the health of older individuals and has led WHO efforts to investigate the impact of ageism on the health of older people. She has published many articles, won numerous awards for her work and been cited widely across the media. She speaks extensively about her work around the world, including in the UK, Singapore, Korea, Germany, Switzerland and of course the US.