This is the essential guide to maximizing your health, wellness, fitness and longevity. It offers a pragmatic and accessible approach to optimising your quality and quantity of life. Such key measures as an active existence and a positive spirit, weight management, physical fitness, preventive health care, intelligent lifestyle choices, and mental and social engagement are all comprehensively explored as a means of achieving these goals. Included is an illuminating discussion of the aging process from biological, clinical, and psychological perspectives and the extraordinary ways in which diet, lifestyle, and exercise can contribute to your vitality and quality longevity. The effects of time as well as environmental exposure, poor habits, and genetics are examined and options as to how to mitigate such factors are provided. Dr Siegel has put great effort into practicing what he preaches and acting as a role model for his family, friends 'and patients. While he recognises that no one is capable of stopping the time clock, he provides simple and commonsense measures that can certainly slow down the tick of the clock. These will help enable the glow of youth to shimmer on you for as long as is humanly possible.