Live Forever: A Curious Scientists Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death

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Nature wants you dead. Not just you, but your friends, family, pets everyone youve ever met With over 17,000 known diseases affecting humans, and countless poisons, carcinogens and toxins in our environment, its a miracle that our bodies manage to keep us alive. And that is, of course, if they dont betray us themselves, whether through cancers or autoimmune conditions. Biomedical researcher Professor John Tregoning tells the unlikely story of how, against all odds, we manage to stay alive. Taking an organ-by-organ tour of the human body, Tregoning embarks on his own experimental quest, testing 'life-extending' diets and exercise regimes to separate fact from fad. Exploring the multitude of ways our bodies can kill us, from inherited genetic conditions, through heart attacks, arrythmias and angina, onto the delicate workings of the brain, Live Foreveroffers compelling insight into how our bodies work, how we can best look after them and ultimately live longer, healthier lives.

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Prof. John S. Tregoning is Professor of Vaccine Immunology at Imperial College London, where he runs a research group on infectious diseases. John has published over sixty academic papers and had a regular column in Nature during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has written articles for Times Higher Education and Science, and has been interviewed by outlets including the BBC and Sunday Telegraph. He tweets at @DrTregoning.