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Like to Read? This Is Extremely Exciting

If you like to read, there is some extremely exciting news. Let's see if you agree.

You know how sometimes, while listening to the radio, watching TV or talking with someone, a new book or a book you haven't read becomes the subject of the conversation, and as you are listening to the particularly enthusiastic endorsement /description of the book, you decide that this is one that you just have to read? Driven by this fresh desire, you make a mental note to yourself, repeating the title a few times so you won't forget it, or you scribble the name of the book and the author onto a scrap of paper or enter it into your smart phone. You have every intention of purchasing the book the first chance you get, but stuff happens -- life engulfs you with things that need doing and places to go. Before you know it, days or weeks pass and that urge to get the book has passed, if not been completely forgotten.

The good news is that this scenario of missing out on a good book you would have greatly enjoyed or benefited from can now be a thing of the past. With recent developments, now, in about the time it takes to find a pen and a piece of paper and jot down the title and author or rehearse the needed information in your head, you can have the book in hand, so to speak.

Here's the deal. In recent months, Amazon dot com, the folks who make the Kindle book-reader gizmo and electronic versions of the books we read, has made the Kindle book-reader software, for the first time, available for free downloading to your pc, mac, Blackberry, ipad, iphone, Android device ... That means that if you are one of the many who carry a laptop, net-book or smart phone around with you, you can now download the book you want (Amazon has an estimated 450,000 Kindle-edition books to choose from) in about 60 seconds. That's 60 SECONDS!

More good news: Most of the Kindle electronic versions of the books you want are less than ten dollars (in many cases just a penny less, but hey), that is, significantly discounted from the price you would have to pay for the hardcover or paperback editions. And the good news continues. Think about these advantages of having the Kindle version of the book: 

• You can easily carry 10, 20, 100 ... of your favorite or most important books with you wherever you go to refer to as needed
• The text can be highlighted and if your page turns completely yellow from getting carried away with the highlighting (as frequently happens to me), you can delete the excess highlights -- try that with a paper-and-ink physical version
• There is a place to the right of all the pages to write notes, which can be edited and deleted as desired, too
• The size of the text and pages can be increased and decreased to best accommodate your comfort level and visual needs
• The page and text colors can be changed and the brightness of the screen can be adjusted for the differing lighting conditions
• You no longer have to purchase an expensive, separate book-reading device and lug it around with your other electronic devices, such as a laptop
• When you open up your Kindle book, it opens up automatically to where you left off last -- even if you are reading it on a different electronic device

Downloading the software is simple and just takes a couple of minutes. What I did was Google, "Kindle for pc." Then clicked on the page labeled, "Amazon Kindle for PC -- Install Instructions." A couple of mouse clicks later and in less than five minutes the Kindle book-reader software had been loaded onto my computer. Then, by clicking on the icon in the upper right-hand corner of the Kindle screen, I was magically and quickly transported to the Kindle bookstore where the desired book was purchased. Two minutes later, since Amazon already had my customer information, my first book was on the Kindle reader and being enjoyed by yours truly.

Now that you know the great benefits of the Kindle books and the free book-reader software and how easily it can be installed and how quickly you can have the books you want, how about some suggestions for books? Here are three must-have books if you are at all interested, as is your author, in slowing aging and staying well for the long haul:

1. You:Staying Young by Mehmet C.Oz and Michael F. Roizen
2. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John Ratey, M.D.
3. AGE BLASTERS: 3 Steps to a Younger You by Ed Mayhew (that would be me)

Don't you agree that having the book you can't wait to read in your possession in 60 seconds is clearly better than having to wait until your next trip to the bookstore or library or waiting for days or weeks for its delivery? Getting books at seriously discounted prices compared to the paper-and-ink editions isn't bad either. There are so many advantages and the book-reader software is free and easily and quickly downloaded to your laptop, smart phone ... -- so why wait? Hey, you could have your very own copy of AGE BLASTERS just minutes from now. Is that exciting, or what!?! 

And now I'd like to invite you to claim your FREE Fitter After 50 / Fitter for Life e-newsletter when you visit http://www.FitterforLife.com

From Ed Mayhew -- the author of Fitter After 50, Fitter For Life and other books, CDs, videos and articles on how you, too, can make falling apart as you age merely an option -- NOT a mandate. Why not make the rest of your life the BEST of your life? http://www.FitterforLife.com and  http://www.amazon.com/Age-Blasters-Steps-Younger-You/dp/1598589083/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276528674&sr=1-1 (click here for paperback or Kindle editions of AGE BLASTERS)

  

Can AGE BLASTERS Really Slow How Fast You Age?

Can Ed Mayhew's new book, AGE BLASTERS: 3 Steps to a Younger You REALLY slow your rate of aging? That's a question well worth exploring if you'd like to slow or reverse aging and grow biologically younger.

AGE BLASTERS offers 3 steps to a younger you. In a world awash with hype, is this just more of it, or is this the real deal? Rich Benyo, Editor of Marathon and Beyond magazine and author of Running Past 50, says that AB really does deliver when he wrote, "[Ed Mayhew] ... promises that it is possible to retard and even reverse the ravages of aging, but then he fills the second half of the book with proof positive that it can be done by introducing readers to people just like them who have taken control of their lives ..."

The first step to slow and reverse aging, according to Mayhew, is to believe it is possible and worth the effort to feel and perform like someone a decade or two his/her junior. By introducing the reader to 77 men and women, ages 40 to 80 and better who are documented to be in better shape (and biologically younger) than most 20- and 30-year-olds, AGE BLASTERS challenges one's self-destructive beliefs about aging, making room for more empowering, age-blasting beliefs. You can't read about all these age-redefining individuals without releasing those beliefs that are tearing down your body and making you literally fall apart.

To substantially slow aging, and even reverse it for a period of years, one needs to develop a self image that supports this more youthful version of self. This revised self image in combination with an emotional trigger, is, in a nutshell, what step 2 is all about. AB gives the reader a technique he can use to do this easily and powerfully. No change, whether it's losing weight and keeping it off, starting a youth-enhancing exercise program, stopping smoking ... can last without an enabling/supportive self image. Without a corroborative self image and its accompanying burning desire, the best of intentions cannot be sustained.

The final step is to develop a plan of action that leads sub-goal by sub-goal, step by step, to your goal and a younger you. This book gives all the components needed to do this. Enabled by one's new, empowering beliefs, a potent self image and a burning desire, you can completely transform your life, like the masters of aging profiled in AGE BLASTERS have proven can be done.

Can AGE BLASTERS really slow how fast you age? The 77 men and women in AB, who have slowed aging to a crawl, are proof that it can be done. The AGE BLASTERS 3 steps are based on what the author has learned from studying and questioning them. Here's how Pam Reed, American Champion ultra-runner and two-time winner of the 135-mile Badwater ultra-marathon (all accomplished in her 40s) sees it: "If you wish to look, feel and perform like someone years, even decades younger than your chronological age, then you need to read Ed Mayhew's latest book. It's replete with inspiring stories of men and women, like myself, who have done this. Get Age Blasters today and start growing biologically younger tomorrow."

The masters of aging, such as Pam Reed, presented in AGE BLASTERS, show that by taking the 3 simple steps they've all taken --

1. Develop empowering beliefs
2. Create a supportive self image and an accompanying burning desire
3. Design a workable plan of action

-- you, too, can significantly slow how fast you age.

Ed Mayhew is a speaker (need one?) and the author of Fitter After 50, Fitter for Life and AGE BLASTERS: 3 Steps to a Younger You  Visit Ed at www.FitterForLife.com (Ask for your F*R*E*E* Fitter After 50 newsletter)   www.YouCanGrowYounger.com    www.AgeBlasters3.com

Ed Mayhew's new AGE BLASTERS book -- What's In It FOR YOU?

My new book, AGE BLASTERS: 3 Steps to a Younger You, will be out in a week or two, but what is really important is: What's in it for you?

First, let me say that writing a book is like giving birth to a child (without the pain and dirty diapers). That is to say, I'm thrilled to death. Well, maybe death is not the best metaphor to use for a book on slowing aging; but then, death does stop aging cold in its tracks. But I digress --

What Exactly Is In It For You?

I'm sure you've noticed how some folks around your age appear much older and less vital than you do, while others your age look and have the energy of someone a decade or two younger. To find out why there is such a huge disparity in the speed of aging, I've studied and researched hundreds of masters athletes. These men and women in their 40s, 60s, 80s ... have defied aging as we KNOW/BELIEVE it to be, as proven by their out-performing decades-younger athletes on a regular basis. AGE BLASTERS details not only why these individuals age so much slower than the norm, but more importantly, how you can, too!

There are three things these age-defyers have in common that set them apart (other than good genetics, which experts say accounts for about 15 to 30% of their extreme youthfulness):

• They developed a belief that it's possible to slow aging significantly, that they themselves could do it, and that it would be worth the effort
• They created a mental self image that supported their staying youthful and an accompanying burning desire to do so which, along with their empowering beliefs, made the mentally-held image eventually become a physical reality
• They designed a plan of action which took them unerringly to their goals/their objectives/their desires

The Three Steps to a Younger You

Taking what we can learn from these masters athletes, we have the three steps you can take to a younger you:

1. Take a couple of minutes each day to read the daily Age Blasters stories in AGE BLASTERS. These short blasts, each one about a different masters athlete or scientific study, will challenge any self-destructive beliefs about aging you may have -- making room for new, more empowering beliefs.
2. Practice the Age Blasters What If Technique to powerfully develop a self image and associated burning desire that will create, support and sustain a more youthful you. Do this because when you take action without changing your self-sabotaging self images, nothing lasting can happen. For example, seeing yourself as someone who can never stick with an exercise program or a person who is too busy to take time for stress-reduction sessions will derail your best intentions.
3. Once you've taken steps 1 and 2, THEN create a plan of action, as spelled out in AGE BLASTERS. Having developed beliefs, a self image and a burning desire that support your decisions, you'll be able to make changes that last for a more vibrant, younger you for years and decades to come.

Everyone, including you and I, wants to look and feel their best and perform at their peak; therefore, if we really believed that we could look and feel much younger and perform as well as we did years and decades ago and if we really believed it was worth the effort, we would already be living that younger version of ourselves. The degree to which we are not, is proof that we don't REALLY believe it is possible or worth the effort. Age Blasters will give you the empowering beliefs we all need to be our best.

What's in it for you? A younger, more robust version of you. AGE BLASTERS is a game changer! It really is. I am excited about your opportunity to read it AND as a result, to enjoy a younger, more vibrant you.

Ed Mayhew is a speaker (need one?) and the author of Fitter After 50, Fitter for Life and AGE BLASTERS: 3 Steps to a Younger You You can visit Ed at: www.FitterForLife.com  www.YouCanGrowYounger.com  Ask for your F*R*E*E* Fitter After 50/Fitter for Life e-newsletter

Want To Stay Young -- Read This Book

You -- Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty is a book you may want to read if you are serious about staying young. Written by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, two medical doctors of some renown, it is full of tips and techniques you can use to slow the relentless aging process.

You -- Staying Young is not only very informative in all things related to how and why we age, but also is easy to read (as it is written in layman's terms), and is very entertaining, frequently using humor and cartoon drawings to explain bodily processes and what we can do to slow the rate at which we age.

You will learn about 14 major agers -- biological processes that control your rate of aging -- and suggestions for how to best deal with them. They encompass everything from UV radiation damage (which the sunscreen manufacturers and their buddies -- the media -- have made sure we never forget) to less known and understood agers, such as glycosylation and neurotransmitter imbalance. Through it all you are sure to find some beneficial tips and some factoids that will be of interest:

• If you live life like the average American does, every eight years the rate at which you age doubles.
• Your body's production of sirtuin (one of the "good guys") can be increased by upping your quercetin consumption, that is, eating more apples, onions, garlic, celery and lemon juice.
• The health benefits of resveratrol and the fact that you can get it by drinking red wine has been well publicized. Less well known is that muscadine grapes (and knotweed) have several times more resveratrol than does wine.
• Common aspirin is one of the best anti-aging medicines you can take.
• Broccoli and tomatoes are more effective in fighting prostate cancer when consumed together than when eaten alone.
• Nitric oxide is found is highest amounts in the nasal pharynx and is one of the main reasons deep breathing through the nose is so good for you.

You --Staying Young is jam-packed with potent little anti-aging nuggets like the few listed here -- techniques and tips that can make a real difference in your quality of life now and in the years and decades to come. The only thing that could make it better is if I had written it myself.

Ed Mayhew is a speaker and the author of Fitter After 50 and Fitter For Life. You can find him and get his F*R*E*E* Fitter After 50 newsletter at: www.FitterForLife.com   www.FitterAfter50.com   www.YouCanGrowYounger.com(blog)

The Most Powerful Tool to Optimize Your Brain Function

In his groundbreaking latest book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise And the Brain, John J. Ratey, M.D., gets right to the point when he writes, "... exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function ... " He bases this premise on the evidence he's garnered from hundreds of research papers on the subject. As a matter of fact, Spark is peppered with dozens and dozens of studies which, together, prove that aerobic exercise is one of the best things you can do for your brain.

These studies show that when you get your blood pumping with aerobic exercise, there is:

• An increase in the neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act as regulators in the brain. These substances are responsible for controlling impulsivity, lifting moods, enhancing self esteem, improving focus and alertness, motivating, and improving cognition.
• The release of more BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor). BDNF maintains the brain's infrastructure by improving brain-cell function and supporting neurogenesis (the creation of new brain cells). Dr. Ratey calls BDNF "miracle-gro for the brain."
• The unleashing of more of the hormones IGF-1 (Insulin-Like Growth Factor), VEGF (Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor), and FGF-2 (Fibroblast Growth Factor), which are necessary for brain-cell growth, connectivity, and neurogenesis. It is significant to note that although it is normal for these hormones to decline substantially when under chronic stress and as we age, they can be increased through exercise.

Dr. Ratey, a psychiatrist and clinical researcher by trade, shows that exercise is a good alternative for dealing with a whole host of conditions, including stress, anxiety, depression, attention disorder and hyperactivity, addictions, hormonal changes, and the negative repercussions of aging -- not to mention the improvement of one's ability to remember, process information, and learn.

He makes the case that aerobic exercise is often as effective as anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medicines. He does, however, seem to support the use of prescription drugs or a combination of exercise and drugs where appropriate.

If your knowing that aerobic workouts can improve your cardiovascular health, control your weight, and give you more energy hasn't inspired you to get up off the couch (and from in front of the computer) and to the gym to get the exercise you need, then maybe learning that cardio optimizes your brain function, too, will do the trick.

Reading Dr. Ratey's Spark is the smart thing to do AND you'll be smarter for having read it. For more info: www.JohnRatey.com

Ed Mayhew, author of Fitter for Life and Fitter After 50 and -- coming soon -- You Can Grow Younger: The Boomer's Guide to Slowing And Reversing Aging

10-Second Workouts For A Younger You

Ten-second workouts may seem too good to be true, BUT I ASSURE YOU THAT IT IS TRUE --sort of. Recent research has shown that all-out anaerobic exercise for as little as six seconds (think sprinting) can cause your pituitary gland to squirt youth-restoring Hgh (Human growth hormone) into your bloodstream. This is the very same Hgh that aging Hollywood stars are rumored to be paying thousands of dollars for in hopes of extending their time in front of the camera; and the same stuff some professional athletes are accused of injecting and rubbing on their skin to gain a competitive edge.

Having read the above, you may be tempted to suddenly jump up from your desk and sprint down the corridor at full speed. However, this is not recommended, as you just might knock something over, get injured, have a heart attack and die, or worse -- be committed by your boss and fellow employees.

Let's start with the research. Scientists at Loughborough University in the UK had participants in their study perform single, all-out sprints of 6-seconds or 30-seconds duration on cycle ergometers. The 30-second sprints increased Hgh by 530% over the pre-exercise, resting baseline levels; and 450% more than the shorter, 6-second bursts. In the 30-second group, the Hgh levels stayed elevated for 1.5 to 2 hours post exercise.

Phil Campbell, author of the book, Ready Set Go Synergy Fitness, has found that 8 to 12 seconds (or a distance of about 70 yards) of sprint running is equivalent to 30 seconds of all-out effort on a bike. This is because in cycling (used in the cited study) one's body weight is supported and so it takes longer to get to the lactate threshold -- a state that signals the release of Hgh.

The obvious question is: Why would we want to increase Hgh levels? The answer is so that we can reverse the symptoms of somatopause -- a condition too many Boomers suffer from. It's symptoms include increasing weight, declining energy, increasing of bad cholesterol, decreasing of good cholesterol and the wrinkling of skin. According to Campbell, "... increasing Hgh growth hormone can produce an average response of a 14 percent loss in body fat and an 8 percent gain in muscle." Research also shows that increases in Hgh improves skin elasticity, cholesterol levels and bone density.

If you remember, I started this article with a disclaimer worded -- "sort of." You see, all of a sudden taking a flat-out sprint across the parking lot could be dangerous. Besides getting backed over by a humvee, you could pull a muscle, sprain an ankle, or run into an old girlfriend/boyfriend. You need to warm up and cool down to make this a safe workout (after checking with your healthcare professional to see if you are healthy enough for this intensity, of course). This makes the exercise sessions a little longer than 10 seconds.

Campbell has put together what he calls the Sprint 8. It's comprised of 8-sprint intervals and takes about 20 minutes. I highly recommend it. Go to ReadySetGoFitness.com for more information. It should take you about 10 seconds to get there from here And that should work out  just about right!