Super Ager

"Super Ager is manual for living well, aging with grace and keeping that youthful bounce in your step." ─Darren Main, author of Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic

#1 New Release in Diets & Nutrition, Gerontology, and Aging

One of America's top yoga and embodied mindfulness teachers reveals secrets and practices for optimal aging

Relationships matter. Super Ager has everything you need to know to "live long and prosper"; from movement, diet, fasting, brain and memory health to the major impact of relationships on longevity.

Younger aging. Filled with science, suggestions for gentle daily movement, natural remedies and modern wisdom, Super Ager is a practical and concise guide to optimal aging. Yoga instructor, nutrition expert and healthy living blogger Elise Marie Collins has compiled a comprehensive look at what "Super Agers" are doing to live long and prosper. Learn about movement at any age, brain fitness and memory maintenance, foods, vitamin and mineral content cues and clues, and what they do to promote health, prevent disease, and decrease and reverse symptoms of illness.

Increased lifespan, better healthspan. In her revolutionary book, Collins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, showing us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span. Through a journey of cultures that have the distinction of producing some of the world's healthiest, oldest people, Collins reveals the secrets for living an extended and fulfilling life in which our later years become a period of wisdom, vitality, and happiness. From India to Japan, northern Europe and the Greek Island of Ikaria "where people forgot to die," she shows how the unique lifestyles of these people can influence and improve our own lives.

If you liked books such as Empowered Aging, Retirement: The First 365 Days or The Best is Yet to Be, you will want to read Super Ager.