Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever

Which is quite weird otherwise interesting useful book. Do wish they have more specific brand recommendations (objectively) as there are so many products out there and quality/purity is very uncertain with the supplement industry not being regulated at all.

I concur with the content reviews, but I must warn potential purchasers that the Kindle version is NOT compatible with Kindle for Android app and will not download! It WAS compatible. I had this book on my old LG FroYo phone. But when I upgraded to a Moto-E with Lollipop, I could not download the book. the store customer service confirmed that it is now incompatible with Android app. So, be warned. Get the physical book or borrow a copy from a library. Until the publisher addresses this problem, I'd advise avoiding the hobbled Kindle version.

Reading this book, and putting to use some of its information will no doubt improve the health of many readers. Kurzweil and Grossman are knowledgable and interesting, and have devised a credible plan for improving health.They tell us about tests we should ask our doctors for, about foods we should and should not eat, about supplements we probably need, about the kind of exercise we should be doing, about ways to de-toxify ourselves. But their goal is not simply enable us to live longer and healthier, rather it is to enable us to reach a point where the next great stage in humanity's find against aging and death will take place. Once we reach this stage brought about by the biotechnological revolution we might be able to go on to the next stage in which the nanotechnology will provide us a further way of stretcing out. Technology to technology we will eventually be able to overcome Death and go on forever young. If this sounds familiar it is probably because the 'bottom line' has been preached before by Kurzweil in talking of the Singularity and that time when human mind will be transcended by Computer- mind.
Death is not going to not have dominion it is going to be defeated , that is, if we can hang around long enough. We will not only that is transcend our temporary health problems but somehow come to a new state of being.
Like many others I am skeptical of this.I am too I must admit skeptical about the fundamental idea that 'all-conquering medicine ' is on its way already. As a person of seventy I see to many of my good friends and acquaintances suffering from various illnesses modern medicine does not at the moment have a real answer to. That is to say I believe a book like this however good in somehow ignoring the actual state of physical health of most elderly people today is really in a kind of dreamland. Still because this book does have so much important and relevant health information I would recommed not only reading it but reading it closely and putting into practice those recommendations which can improve the individual's health.

The authors write:

Now that health technology is an information technology
and subject to the exponential progress that underlies
all information technology ...

The power of information technology doubles every year,
within a decade these technologies will be a thousand
times more powerful than they are today and a million
times more powerful in 2 decades.

The authors are confusing computing speed with computing power. It it true that the speed of computers has grown at an exponential rate (however, even that is no longer true). Computing speed is not the only limiting factor to computing power. Consider: has weather forecasting gotten a thousand times better in the last decade? A million times better in the last two decades? If the author's claims are true then by this point meteorologists should be nearly flawless in their predictions. My experience is that this isn't so.

The authors recommend getting this medical test: a CT coronary artery calcium (CAC) scan. This past week I spoke with my doctor about getting that test. She replied, "Are you aware that such a test involves being exposed to significant levels of radiation? Further, the test does not tell 'where' the calcium buildup is located, it only identifies that 'somewhere in the body' there is calcium buildup."

Dementia and philosophers!
Aristotle and Plato.
Maybe even Strabo.
Roger Bacon thought so.
With aging, there is a shaft.
Let labor always resistant.
And then it fruitful.
The brain is not as not affected.
If honest and knows everything.
Memory, time and language.
The will, choice, precision verse.
Always the right decision.
And responsibly and correctly.
Sport, aromatherapy.
Repetition and teaching.
Discourse, "Dialogue."
The brain, philosopher, has saved.
He is an artist, musician.
One gardener and talent.
bird Trills and the fine figure.
That keeps you synapses.
Gallery!
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This is a book well worth reading (and paying for). The in-depth version came out a few years ago as 'Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever' and with Transcend most of the speculation about future technologies (MOST) has been cut out, and the focus instead is on "Bridge One", i.e., getting your frickin' act together TODAY. The themes are fairly obvious (exercise, stop eating crap, don't chug coffee every day), but the greatness is in the many details and specific recommendations (and substitutions for all those terrible foods and habits you enjoy indulging in). I have read all of Ray Kurzweil's books now (except his one on managing Diabetes, since it doesn't exactly concern me) and every one has been enlightening and provocative.

The book is clearly aimed at the middle aged, those who (according to the authors) have the most to gain and who are at the most risk, but even if you're my age (26 years old) you can get a lot of benefit from following this book, especially in the nutrition section. I've found many guys (and girls) my age are fairly active physically and intellectually, but because we haven't really begun to feel the effects of aging yet, diet is of very little interest to us. I have good friends who smoke regularly because: "So what man, I can run 10 miles!" This book makes it clear what is going on subtly, behind the scenes as you pump your body full of toxins and bad food, daily!

Because of this book and Fantastic Voyage, I have (over the last couple of years) become a vegetarian (from being a lifelong, HEAVY carnivore), gone from being a total coffee fiend to drinking about one espresso per day and mostly just green tea, begun to appreciate the value of at least some supplements and vitamins in pill form, and started reading a lot more extensively about future technological developments and the real potential of what we can do and experience if we live healthfully for the next 30-50 years. I originally bought these both for my 60-something father, but read them myself too, and I can say not only that I feel better but indeed I feel at 26 to adopt these measures I am WAY ahead of the game.

Get it, read it, consider it - and if you find it makes good sense, follow it.

This book was much easier to understand than the author's previous book, "Fantastic Voyage." As a 78-year-old senior, I found it easy to comprehend the steps necessary to improving my health in order to survive to the time when regenerative medicine and medical nanotech can come to my rescue.

I particularly found interesting their use of an "interview from the future" technique where Ray and Terry spoke from the years 2023 and 2034, explaining how technologies have advanced in those future times. This brought an exciting "futurism" into the book which made it more fascinating.

The authors combine excellent health advice with a touch of a "magical future" which makes this book an effortless read and well worth the price.

This is a eat right and exercies book.
There are test you can ask your Doc about that can prevent serious disease.
If you want to avoid the poisons in life, add years to your life and peek 40 years into the future... then read this book. Buy it now!

or ask your local library if they have it.

Kurzweil had provided a great service to all of humanity. This renown scientist, who inherited a major health problem, applied the scientific method to find what really works to maintain excellent health. This book eliminates the 95% of the over-hyped junk health supplements and "miracle cures" and summarizes what really works into a comprehensive book.
If you study just one book on health, this is the one.

You hear so much conflicting information on vitamin/mineral supplementation that one sometimes wonders if supplements are even worth the bother, but this book clearly states precisely what is needed, how much is needed, and why it is needed. More importantly, the book's assertions are based upon current scientific studies rather than "feel-good" BS (i.e. yoga, meditation, aroma-therapy, and other such nonsense). Even if you don't plan to "live forever", you can at least live as healthily and long as possible by tweaking a few of your daily habits. The book is incredibly well written (as are all of Kurzweil's books) and lays everything out in a clear, logical, and concise manner.

Kurzweil had provided a great service to all of humanity. This renown scientist, who inherited a major health problem, applied the scientific method to find what really works to maintain excellent health. This book eliminates the 95% of the over-hyped junk health supplements and "miracle cures" and summarizes what really works into a comprehensive book.
If you study just one book on health, this is the one.

You hear so much conflicting information on vitamin/mineral supplementation that one sometimes wonders if supplements are even worth the bother, but this book clearly states precisely what is needed, how much is needed, and why it is needed. More importantly, the book's assertions are based upon current scientific studies rather than "feel-good" BS (i.e. yoga, meditation, aroma-therapy, and other such nonsense). Even if you don't plan to "live forever", you can at least live as healthily and long as possible by tweaking a few of your daily habits. The book is incredibly well written (as are all of Kurzweil's books) and lays everything out in a clear, logical, and concise manner.

Excelent in all sense. Present the updated scientific tecnology plus what is coming in the near future.I susgest reading from the begining up to the second chapter. Then continuing reading according to your most important needs. ( Excuse my english if I fail to express my self correctly)

Yes, the book has some sensible and reasonable advice on living a healthy life, but plenty of extraordinary claims and unfounded assumptions too. However, what's most scary is that the author really means that you'll live forever, literally, if you live enough to reach the prophesied technology that's supposed to win the endless fight against entropy.

In essence, he's not proposing a routine you should follow out of concern for your life and well-being, but something you should do if you fear death. He's saying that you should choose what you do and what you eat not for the pleasure of living, but for the fear of dying.

If this isn't nonsensical and unrestrained materialism, I don't know what is.

A piece of advise for those who take this book seriously. I chuckled when I read that the 'T' stands for "Talk with your doctor". The joke is that iatrogenic diseases (caused by wrong or unnecessary medical treatment) are the 3rd cause of death in the US, after cancer and heart disease.

You can't test the effectiveness of an "anti-aging" or "life-extension" regimen on humans any faster than the rate at which humans happen to live. This blows up COMPLETELY all the transhumanist and singularitarian nonsense about "conquering death" or "becoming immortal" by some arbitrary date in this century, say, by 2045, when plenty of people alive now will survive to that year regardless, but not the ones currently over the age of 75 or so.