Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights:#1 The fact that we can now live longer does not mean that we will live better. We are at risk of spending our extra years in a state of diminished quality of life because we have become too frail.#2 There is a dividing line between the strong and the weak. Fred was living proof that people could age and get stronger simultaneously. But how. What separated them and those like Fred.#3 Our bodies have been fine-tuned by Darwin’s natural selection into a perfect vehicle for life on this earth, but none of these genomic changes have added even a week to our average life expectancy until recently.#4 The first half of the twentieth century saw a dramatic rise in life spans due to the control of infectious diseases and better nutrition. In the middle part of the twentieth century, penicillin and sulfa drugs increased the average adult life span.