I liked this book. It is well written and well laid out. The format makes it easy to follow and each section has action plans and questions to help you develop a way to set your own progress. There are website links to enable you to find workouts etc. It might not all be new but it is a useful addition to the bookshelf.

I enjoy garlic and ginger and often cook with them but I didn’t realise quite how helpful they were in a healthy diet. There are lots of little ideas that can be taken from the book and some big life changing ones as well. I will be making some changes in how I cook and I will be following up on some of the exercise ideas.

Recommended if you are starting on your healthy journey or are just a bit jaded and uncertain where to go next.

I was given a copy of this book by Netgalley in return for an honest review

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it was easy to understand and well-written. Hopefully, I will soon be stronger, fitter and happier, thanks to this book. Recommended

A very interesting book with lots of information about feeling better as you age. It was great to be aimed at over 40 year olds as the information was more relevant.
Some of it was information was stuff that I already knew but reading this book made me actually want to stick to it!
Thank you netgalley.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. Some of the information was a repeat from other books, but there were also some new facts and ideas. Will purchase for the library because it is geared towards women in their 40's.

This nonfiction book mostly reminded me of stuff I already know. There were a few tips I’m unlikely to try, but all in all the author made good points. One thing I might have known but forgot were to avoid cooking things on super high heat. I’m a vegetarian so getting enough vegetables isn’t a problem, but he points out that cooking veggies at high heat (like roasting, my favorite) can eliminate some of the nutrients and because of soil damage, if I’m not eating organic, those veggies don’t have as many nutrients as one would like anyway.

He reminded me to chew slowly and thoroughly and eat more slowly—I really need to make those things habits.

He reminds us why a variety of workouts are important and the different benefits of incorporating HIIT, working with weights, and focusing on flexibility into our weekly/daily routine. I flagged a lot of pages—I’m the kind of person that needs to be inspired to get off my butt and workout and eat right. Here are a few things I noted:

• Avoid eating for at least three hours before bedtime, especially large meals. Eating too late will increase your metabolism and make it more difficult to get a good night’s sleep.
• HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) helps promote the hormone HGH, which helps with the recovery from injuries or just a strenuous workout. It stimulates muscle growth. It’s a hormone that declines after the age of thirty.
• You have to be in this for the long term. It’s about a consistent diet and workout regime—you can replace the toxic cells of your body with healthy ones, but it takes time.
• Take supplements including a multi-vitamin, Glutamine to help repair a leaky gut (which is a very common problem and creates a host of negative impacts including fatigue), vitamin C. Try to get sun for vitamin D, which helps calcium absorption and thus helps strengthen bones and teeth and helps control insulin levels that in turn keep blood sugar stable. (People who battle depression sometimes have a vitamin D deficiency.) He recommends flaxseed supplements and Krill oil.
• Natural sea salt over table salt and other processed salts.
• Complex carbohydrates like whole fruit, green vegetables, nuts, beans and lentils are absorbed more slowly and help keep your blood sugar stable.
• Sugar is a metabolic poison and promotes aging and inflammation. When we eat simple carbohydrate foods and consume sugary drinks it spikes our blood sugar which spikes insulin. When we manage our insulin efficiently it makes us full of energy, improves mood, helps us lose weight, and improves concentration.

He really covers quite a range of things—fasting and intermittent fasting, the keto diet benefits and drawbacks, ways to manage stress including breathing exercises.

This is not the kind of book you’ll be able to read in one sitting but digesting it slowly over time it has some helpful information.

To begin with the book provides 10 steps to immediately improve your health such as quality sleep, drinking more water, meditating, sit down less. There are a couple I've not heard of before such as oil pulling (swilling oil in your mouth for about 20 mins!) and getting the homocysteine levels tested. I'm guilty of at least 2 of these; not drinking enough water and setting down too long!

When it comes to the digestive system, it explains what leaky gut is and the various tests you can get, along with how to heal it. The book mentions food allergies and intolerances and how to test for them. It then provides 12 tips for digestion friendly habits and 7 things to avoid, plus 4 supplement recommendations

For exercise chapter, there are 5 vitality principles. There is also a table dependant on the exercise which includes its benefits for cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, strength and tone, flexibility and balance.

There is also a chapter on nutrition, supplements, vitamins and their benefits and detoxing. Another chapter covers stress and getting motivated. There are also action plan goals at the back of the book, plus at the end of the chapters there is an Action Plan that covers the main ideas of that section.

This book is a workbook not an physical exercise book, though it gives ideas on how to begin.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

In my never ending quest to get fit and healthy I read a lot of books that tell me how to do it.

I thought this book was really well done and I was able to find many good ideas to help me get fit. The author seems to really have a handle on the newest science and explains it very well for us to be able to understand. I liked the fact that the author is well educated in many areas. He's a nutritionist so he delves into the food side of our health. Man good tips and ideas to make wise decisions when dealing with food. He's a personal trainer so again he can meet the needs of physical health and to top it off he is a darn good writer!

Well written and well worth the read!

It's unusual to have a book about health directed at my age group (early forties), generally these are for younger or older people. Some of the information I already knew but it was good to get reinforcement. Thanks!

I found some good ideas in this book that I hope to put into practice. I plan to buy this book for the library because it addresses women over 40.

As a 42 year old woman, this book spoke to me, While some of the information was generic (nit new) I loved how the author geared it towards my age group and not just 20 somethings! A great read to kick start your new healthy lifestyle.

Thanks #netgalley for the ARC.

Very interesting read. Lots of really good information to put into practice. This would be w very good source of knowledge.

As my 40th draws closer and closer, I thought this book would be an excellent resource as I struggle through my third year of injuries and new dietary issues (brought on by age, I swear) that prevent me from being as active as I normally am. I found it to be interesting but slightly too much information for me to process. I also expected there to be workouts to 'get strong' and to 'get fit' accompanied by photos but it leaned more towards the 'life manual for 40+'. There are great motivational examples, the information is very well and simply organized, but personally on the stressful side when you tick off a few boxes that are outside your control and just due to ageing. Or I start down the path of paranoia (am I dehydrated? do I have leaky gut? am I exercising enough? too much?) Luckily, there are descriptions of fixes that can be tailored. Overall, it's a great resource, one that I will most likely refer to depending on the issue rather than a major overhaul to ensure success.

This is an extremely in-depth book for feeling your best after 40. The focus is on natural living but the author really breaks things down for you to make it easy and doable. This is a manual more than a book--one you can refer back to often with suggestions and tips to implement his pillars into your life. Highly recommend!

This book is supposed to be for those over 40 and offer new advice on how to get and stay in shape. However, I found some of the suggestions to be commonly known, so they weren’t really new to me. The tips I hadn’t heard of were great, so that is why I gave it 3 stars.

Some good tips, some old tips, some unheard tips, but still all together this is an interesting book. I wondering about the oil though,...

Alcune nuove informazioni, alcune vecchie strategie e alcune novità mai sentite, ma nel complesso questo é un libro interessante, anche se la faccenda degli sciacqui con l'olio non mi é proprio chiarissima.

THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!