Review

I started reading this book after reading its review on Book Freak. It seemed interesting. The notes seemed interesting. So I searched for it in the e-library. I had just finished reading Pillars of Creation so I had space in my life for an audiobook and this was an audiobook, so I picked it up.

There are the four horsemen of slow death - Heart disease, Cancer, Neurodegenerative disease and Type 2 diabetes. The book goes over their causes, and possible ways to delay them. Mostly through exercise, nutrition, sleep and taking care of your mental health.

The byline of the book is - the science and art of longevity. The art part of it comes in the final section of the third and final part of the book. When Peter talks about his own mental health challenges. He becomes a patient then. He talks about trauma, and how it can cause us to behave as adults.

I don’t say it lightly - this book changed my life. There is one other book which I can say did the same. Back when I was in college, I had read M. Scott Peck’s - The Road Less Travelled. And for a long while it was the book I wanted to gift to everyone. This book feels similar.

Just read it.