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Longevity… Simplified
Living A Longer, Healthier Life Shouldn’t Be Complicated
Want to live a better life but feel overwhelmed? Longevity is achievable without sweat, without strict elimination diets, useless supplements, or pounding the pavement until you’re too sore to enjoy the rest of your day. Good news—living a longer and healthier life doesn’t need to be complicated.
Join the thousands of followers who rely on Dr. Howard J. Luks, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in Sports Medicine, to empower them with straightforward, actionable longevity strategies. Author of the blog posts on his incredibly popular website, he’s compiled his wisdom into Longevity…Simplified: Living A Longer, Healthier Life Shouldn’t Be Complicated, an easy-to-read guide that tosses out the myths and clears up the truth behind living longer.
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The author, Howard Luks has skin in this game; he practices what he preaches with his Zone 2 training. This endorser practiced what Dr. Luks preaches, with totally unexpected benefits. No single health recommendation has carried more benefits for me.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author of The Black Swan and Antifragile
Dr. Luks and I have know and worked together for more than 10 years. In my observation, he has a knack for clarifying a problem and simplifying a solution. I’ve just started reading his book and already he’s teaching me how to integrate simple activities that provide compounding results in living a long and vibrant life.
Matthew Ray Scott
In Longevity…Simplified, Dr. Luks explores:
- Longevity goals and why they’re essential, and achievable, regardless of your age
- How your metabolic fitness affects your risk of most chronic diseases that lead to our demise.
- Why metabolic health is your key to a longer healthspan
- Delaying dementia
- Heart (cardiovascular) health
- The importance of sleep
- Nutrition for longevity
- The benefits of exercise
- Why exercise doesn’t need to be sweaty and painful
- How to increase your fitness and track your progress
- Muscle strength for longevity
As you read this book, you will:
- Understand the science behind the recommendations for living a longer and healthier life
- Understand that all our bodies’ systems are interconnected and rely on one another.
- Connect all the dots to poor metabolic health and take practical steps to reverse this path
- Recognize that fear doesn’t need to be your reality
- Recognizing that most people view “exercise” as unpleasant work
- Stop going down “rabbit holes” of false information
- Realize you don’t have to change as much as you think
Foreword
I haven’t told him this, but Dr Howard Luks saved my life with a simple question. Note that he didn’t do it via surgery (although he’s a talented surgeon), nor through personal contact (although he’s eminently approachable). And he didn’t do it in a TAKE MY EYE OF NEWT SUPPLEMENT THREE TIMES BEFORE LUNCH kind of way, or a IF YOU GET 30 MINUTES TOO LITTLE SLEEP YOU’LL DIE SOMETIME NEXT WEEK health horror kind of way. It’s different.
What Howard—unlike most doctors, Howard insists you call him “Howard”, which turns out to be important—did was ask me a simple question: What are you optimizing for? And I didn’t have a good answer to that simple question. As a runner, skier, and biker, and someone who fancied himself fit and yet was perpetually injured, I think I thought I was optimizing to run, ski, and bike.
But I wasn’t. I was doing complicated fitness theater instead, a complex kind of wellness that wasn’t doing me any favors, as shown by my constant injuries, mostly overuse ones from doing too much, getting hurt, taking a break, and starting all over again. That was me being stupid, and overcomplicating things.
Worse, I was tracking the wrong things. For example, I used to take great pride in how quickly I could get my heart-rate up on runs and bike rides—suffering was my mantra and metier—and I thought that’s how I got fitter.
And I was wrong, as I learned from discussions with Howard years ago. What I was doing was stressing my body in ways that guaranteed injuries, at best, and, at worst, could put me on the path to cardiac irregularities and even an early death. That’s the path I was unknowingly on.
Howard’s simple question—and this is key, the simplicity of Howard’s approach—cut through all of that. By asking me what I was optimizing for—and the correct answer, in general, is healthy longevity—I was forced to reconsider what I was doing to myself, why I was doing it, and its consequences.
While the question is simple, so is his approach. Howard focuses on pulling a few physiological and metabolic levers consistently, rather than getting lost in conflicting research, expensive supplements, and pricey technological doodads. This approach is tonic in a health & wellness world full of complex, conflicting and often contradictory information, including from people who should know better.
It was the beginning of simplifying my relationship with my own health, and of focusing on a few things that matter. It was also the beginning of my personal friendship with Howard, which is one of the recent delights of my life.
But let’s get back to Howard’s simple question: What are you optimizing for? Ask yourself and be honest. Bringing more simplicity to what you do next could save your life.
Dr. Paul Kedrosky
Partner, SK Ventures
Knowledge is power! In Longevity Simplified, Dr Luks presents simple strategies to increase your ‘healthspan’ – not just your lifespan. ‘No one wants to spend their last decade as a frail shell of the person they used to be.’…
Dr. Neil Meigh
Bond Institute of Health and Sport
In a cacophonic world of repurposed drugs, promises of intermittent fasting fixes, and life hacks, what’s the one true path? In Longevity Simplified, Dr. Howard Luks captures the essence of what it takes to live long and well; a must-read.
Professor Stuart Philips, PhD, FACSM, FCAHS
McMaster University
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