Top Highlights

• The keys to overriding the decay code are daily exercise, emotional commitment, reasonable nutrition and a real engagement with living. But it starts with exercise.
• standard American retirement: being sedentary, withdrawing from social contact and eating everything you can get your hands on. These are the primary signals of famine or winter, and your body will respond. With the unerring certainty born of billions of years of survival, it will respond to your behavior. Being sedentary is the most important sign...
• Thing is, you need to do something every day to tell your body it’s springtime. That’s the key to this book. It isn’t complicated, but you have to work at it every day.
• Exercise is the only way to engage your body and your physical brain, but if you do it, you will get “younger.” Not completely, but to an astonishing degree.
• Exercise six days a week for the rest of your life.