Robert N. Butler, M.D., is the president and CEO of the International Longevity Center - USA and a professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The author of the Pultizer Prize-winning Why Survive? Being Old in America and chair of the Council on Aging of the World Economic Forum (Davos), he is a frequent adviser to international agencies, including the World Health Organization, and served as medical editor-in-chief of Geriatrics for more than a decade. He lives in New York City.
"In this wonderful book, Dr. Robert Butler, one of the world's
great figures in the study of aging...offers a rare distillation of
the principles for a long and healthy life."
-Stanley Prusiner, M.D., Nobel laureate in medicine, or physiology,
University of California, San Francisco"
"Dr. Butler has given us a practical and important strategy for
successful aging."
-Jane Fonda
"Written by the world's foremost expert in the field, Dr. Butler's
how-to guide can lead to your own more enjoyable and productive
senior years."
-Senator John Glenn
"In The Longevity Prescription, Dr. Robert Butler distills an
enormous literature on aging into eight principles for long life,
masterfully providing readers with the real secrets to long and
healthy lives."
-Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D., director of Stanford Center on
Longevity
"This wonderful book will inspire, educate and help millions of
baby boomers to understand how we can take simple actions that will
greatly improve our chances not only to live longer, but more
important, to make old age the best time of our lives."
-James P. Firman, Ed.D., president and CEO of National Council of
Aging
"Dr. Butler, the preeminent authority on aging and longevity, does
a wonderful job of presenting a wealth of current, science-based
knowledge on what we can all do to increase our chances of enjoying
long, healthy, active and happy lives. He writes beautifully, as
befits a Pulitzer Prize winner, and is enormously persuasive."
-Humphrey Taylor, chair of Harris Interactive
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