6 Books to Help Spend Your Golden Years Happy and Healthy

In the modern world, people are living longer than ever. But what quality of life are you looking for in your later years?

These books hold more than simple anti-aging tricks, offering readers the secrets to more than just looking young but feeling young well into their 90s.

Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To by Dr. David A. Sinclair

It seems an apparent truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals his groundbreaking new theory: “Aging is a disease, and that disease is treatable.” Dr. Sinclair gives readers a closer look at the frontlines of genetic research — often at his own Harvard lab — that test our perceived scientific limitations, demonstrating how we can slow down or even reverse the aging process. This book guides readers through the simple lifestyle changes that have been shown to help us not only feel but actually become younger, revealing a bold new vision for the future of humankind.

Kaboomer: Thriving and Striving into Your Nineties by David Emerson Frost

You’ve invested money in your retirement — now it’s time to invest in your health! For an unfortunate many, aging and illness lead to poor physical fitness, flagging sexual health, fatigue and brain fog, but with the help of Master Fitness Trainer, Life Coach and Rowing Champion David Frost’s KABOOMER method, you can thrive with new vitality — whatever your age, elder fitness level or medical condition. Filled with lasting lessons for longevity, this science-driven and sweat-proven manual will coach you toward a happy, healthy lifestyle. Frost provides readers with helpful advice on boosting immunity and gut health, enhancing libido, restoring sleep, developing a “live-to-100” diet and other healthy habits to increase stamina, strength and stability. (Check out the BookTrib review and interview with the author.)

Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, Sexy, and Smart―Until You’re 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D.

Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science and Chris Crowley provides the motivation in this New York Times bestselling program designed to help readers turn back the biological clock. Through this “brain-rattling, irresistible, hilarious” guide (Washington Post), readers will discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging — such as weakness, sore joints and bad balance — and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, their latest edition includes the insightful knowledge of prominent neurologist Allan Hamilton, who explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain — all the way down to the cellular level.

Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day by Miranda Esmonde-White

PBS fitness personality Miranda Esmonde-White trains people hoping to heal their bodies and live without pain, from prima ballerinas to professional hockey players to Cerebral palsy patients. Now she applies her techniques to the aging body, helping reverse the hands of time for those who want to stay young and fit. The body is programmed to self-destruct as we age, but the speed at which it self-destructs is up to us. In Aging Backwards, Miranda offers a groundbreaking guide on how to maintain and repair our cells through scientifically designed workouts. Her highly effective and sought-after techniques are designed to prevent joint pain, muscle loss and weak bones — helping to control weight, increase energy, and improve strength and mobility.

Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love by Tony Robbins

New York Times bestselling author Tony Robbins’ latest book showcases how a global revolution in precision and regenerative medicine is empowering people to tap into the power of their own life force to rejuvenate their bodies and even rewind their biological clocks. Page after page of Life Force contains the latest breakthrough research, technology and therapies occurring in medical science, revealed through Robbins’ collaboration with Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Robert Hariri, M.D./PhD and some of the world’s top medical pioneers. The authors guide readers in finding the answers to some of life’s most important questions about their health and longevity as they individually undertake their own personal health journeys. (Check out the BookTrib review here.)

Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele

Aging — not cancer, not heart disease — is the underlying cause of most human death and suffering. We work furiously to conquer each individual disease, but we never think to ask: Is aging itself necessary? Nature tells us it is not: there are tortoises and salamanders who are spry into old age and whose risk of dying is the same no matter how old they are, a phenomenon known as “biological immortality.” In Ageless, Andrew Steele charts the astounding progress science has made in recent years to secure the same for humans — to help us become old without getting frail, to live longer without ill health or disease.