Rambling & not very helpful.
The skinny: Don‘t be a butt to yourself. Exercise, meditate, do yoga.
Don‘t be morbid. Stop getting down on yourself.
Treat your depression.
Ta-da!!
You won‘t shrivel away like a 46 yr old prune bag in your neglected bottom refrigerator drawer.
The brain uses memories of past experiences to continually anticipate what will happen next, and then corrects those predictions with both the current incoming information from the outside world, and from all the signals within our body. Then our brain comes up with an emotion to match all of this...Our emotions are not pure reactions to the world; they are our own fabricated constructions of the world.
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The subtitle is a screaming clue as to where your expectations should be set before reading. I clearly missed it, or was a little too optimistic, because this ended up a self-help book with roughly 30% of the inspiring science woven in.
This would have been such a great book if they'd stripped the self-help out and allowed the authors to expand on the research they've done going back to the 70s.
Link to my Goodreads expanded review in comments.
I'm not done but loving it. Very interesting. I found the reason why I look so young! Molecular biology is just fascinating!
The Telomere Effect by Blackburn and Epel is a groundbreaking, fascinating look at telomeres, which are the ending sequences to your chromosomes, and whose length is an indicator of longevity and health. These are what govern how we age, and how fast we age. In language highly engaging, and eminently readable, Blackburn and Epel will teach you all about what telomeres are, what they do, why they are important, and how to influence them.
I had no idea that telomeres even existed but they appear to control quite a bit of my life. This was a fascinating book, despite being written a bit in the self-help style, about what a telomere is by one of the Nobel Laureate that discovered it. Reading #NobelWomen has been a great personal challenge!