Book Review for Lifespan: Why We Age-& Why We Don't Have To

Every now and then there is a book that provides major insights to the future.  Lifespan by David A. Sinclair is that book. 
David Sinclair is Professor of Genetics and Director of the center for biology and aging at Harvard Medical School.  His book discusses how genetic research is creating the potential to change the way we live.  I believe these discoveries will be a monumental factor reverberating through the future of medicine.  They will greatly affect every person and every business in the world.
Sinclair is one of those deep thinkers with an intense curiosity.  His interest focuses on basic, fundamental questions.  Questions such as “What is life?” and “Why do we age?”  Fortunately, he not only raises key questions, he answers them.
One of Sinclair’s great insights is to consider aging a disease, instead of something that is inevitable.  If aging is a disease, we should be looking for a cure.  Sinclair not only looks for a cure, he believes he has found it. 
His book examines current popular views on how we can live longer, healthier lives.  Views regarding diet, exercise, meditation, etc.  Sinclair explains how each of these popular views impact us at the cellular level.  He then uses the results from this research to either reinforce or reject these current views.
The game-changer comes when Sinclair describes the pathbreaking work his lab has done.  It involves not only extending lifespans, but ensuring the continuation of youthful vitality and health.  His lab has succeeded in making young mice old and old mice young. 
The mega-game-changer is Sinclair’s claim that the basic genetic work is done.  We now understand why we age and how to stop and even reverse it.  Armed with this knowledge some have decided not to wait 5 to 10 years for the results of formal human studies that are now underway.  With hints that we are able to restore youth and vitality at the cellular level, Sinclair and his associates have used their genetic knowledge on themselves and their relatives.  Preliminary results appear to confirm their optimism of a major breakthrough in controlling the aging process in humans.
Sinclair cautions there is much we still have to learn about the aging process.  However, with the basic work done, and with the vast amount of research now underway, we are on the cusp of a monumental change with respect to aging.  It’s a change with implications and challenges most of us can only imagine.
I urge everyone to get a copy of Lifespan and to begin thinking about how we, our love ones and our businesses could soon be facing a very different future than the one we now imagine.