Fantastic Voyage

A book all must read if they are interested in leading a healthy life.

Had a quick first glance. Very informative. Will now read more leisurely.But I wonder if we have to take hundreds of vitamins and minerals for good health!!!

Excellent book.must read

The media could not be loaded. Poor quality, it's just a photocopy. right from the cover to the pages, it is just a photocopied book with extremely poor quality of pages. avoid.

Excellent

Kurzweil and Grossman have really done their studies on the products they talk about. They also use the supplements they recommend to others. I take most of the recommended supplements and my body notices when I have missed a few days.

ho apprezzato l'impostazione rigorosamente scientifica del libro ma anche la facilita' di letturae la comprensione del testo.E' bravo l'autore quando smitizza alcuni luoghi comuni sulle abitudini alimentari!

I now have all of his series which is essentially on how to live forever.Personally, I'm less interested in living forever than I am in staying healthy (getting weight, cholesterol and blood pressure down, etc.) until I die.This book feels a bit rougher than TRANSCEND, but is probably more useful than "The 10% Solution", which was written in the `90s.There is a lot of duplication between the three books but always at least some new material each.If you are interested in this book, you should also take a look at Kurzweil's most recent book, TRANSCEND, and the books from Dr. Ornish.Kurweil's dietary suggestions are quite similar to those of Dr. Ornish. The main difference is the emphasis that Kurzweil places on supplements of all kinds. They say he takes 250 capsules each day.A person could be forgiven for being a bit skeptical about some of his claims or suggestions but, since Kurzweil has a long track record of being right and ahead of his time, it would probably not be wise to bet on his being totally wrong this time either.

After reading Ray Kurzweil's previous book, "The Age of Spiritual Machines", I decided he is possibly the smartest person I know of, because, unlike in any similar sweeping and bold book on the future, I didn't find any major argument I could refute because of some error in his facts, science, logic, induction, unreasonable extrapolation, or because he had ignored some major event or trend which would belie some of his conclusions, despite many of these conclusions being extremely imaginative, and postulating a world astoundingly different from anything in the past or present.In Fantastic Voyage - Live Long Enuf to Live Forever, he and coauthor Terry Grossman, M.D., focus on my favorite topic - How to stay alive and healthy indefinitely. He not only covers everything important we know about health and aging in an easy-to-understand manner, but all the things we can do to maintain our health and slow aging. Altho our means to slow aging are still extremely limited, the good news is that over the next 20-30 years there will be exponential improvement in this area. So if one can make it thru the next two or three decades in decent condition, there will be good prospects of actually reversing aging and surviving indefinitely, with actually increasingly greater mental and physical abilities than we have ever had. This will be mainly due to accelerating advances in genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. The scientific and technical advances discussed are heavily documented in the back of the book by notes & references to the appropriate literature.About the only quibble I have is I would like to see included more illustrations of the molecular structures, and more detailed diagrams of the biochemical reactions and pathways discussed. But maybe the rule of popular science books about each math equation included cutting sales in half applies to biochemistry too. Maybe they could be discretely put in appendices. Most of these details can be found in other books, such as. "Molecular Biology of the Cell", 4th ed, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0815332181/ref=pd_bxgy_text_b/103-0610455-3770261?%5Fencoding=UTF8: , et al., or in the noted references.One can keep up to date in the topics discussed via the associated website: [...]And by these free e-newsletters, which gives brief descriptions of and links to new breakthroughs in science and technology that may turn out to be important. [...] [...]Ray & Terry sell a line of supplemental nutrients that include many that the book and their ongoing research show as likely to be most beneficial:[...]Their healthy chocolate shake mix is so good I need to ration myself.Eric hand