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Transcend nine steps to living well forever

TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever presents a practical, enjoyable program so that readers can live long enough (and remain healthy long enough) to take full advantage of the biotech and nanotech advances that have already begun and will be occurring at an accelerating pace during the year...

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Main Author: Kurzweil, Ray.
Other Authors: Grossman, Terry.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale, 2009.
Subjects:
Longevity.
Health.
Well-being.
Summary: TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever presents a practical, enjoyable program so that readers can live long enough (and remain healthy long enough) to take full advantage of the biotech and nanotech advances that have already begun and will be occurring at an accelerating pace during the years ahead. To help readers remember the nine key components of the program, Ray and Terry have arranged them into a mnemonic: Talk with your doctor Relaxation Assessment Nutrition Supplementation Calorie reduction Exercise New technologies Detoxification This easy-to-follow program will help readers transcend the boundaries of our genetic legacy and live long enough to live forever. - from publisher description.
Physical Description: xxv, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781605292076 (pbk.)
1605292079 (pbk.)
9781605299563 (hardcover)
1605299561 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Ray Kurzweil was born on February 12, 1948. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has received numerous awards including the MIT-Lemelson Prize and the National Medal of Technology. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He has written several books including The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Singularity Is Near, and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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