Andrew Weil on Healthy Aging

Andrew Weil in his new book Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being, has good advice about managing the aging process. Here are few useful tips:

Nature take its course while doing everything in our power to delay the onset of age-related disease, or, in other words, to live as long and as well as possible, then have a rapid decline at the end of life.
There are no effective anti-aging medicines.
Yes, aging can bring frailty and suffering, but it can also bring depth and richness of experience, complexity of being, serenity, wisdom, and its own kind of power and grace.
The goal is to adapt to the changes that time brings and to arrive in old age with minimal deficits and discomforts -- in technical terms, to compress morbidity.
I do not use antiaging cosmetics and have no interest whatever in cosmetic surgery
I want to warn you that the promises you will hear from practitioners of antiaging medicine are going to become more extravagant in coming years.
Be wary of wishing for life extension without thinking through the details of what your extended life will be like.
Cells are programmed to age and die: When cells become immortal, they are cancerous.