Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-490) and index.

The founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute outlines scientifically based recommendations reversing heart disease and other chronic health problems through lifestyle changes designed to slow cellular aging.

Fight cancer, diabetes, heart disease, weight gain, and even the aging process itself with one simple, scientifically proven plan to reverse diseaseas well as prevent and reduce symptomsfrom the world-renowned pioneer of lifestyle medicine. Forty years of peer-reviewed research has proven that the program Dr. Dean Ornish developed to treat heart diseaserated the #1 heart-healthy diet by U.S. News & World Report every year since 2011can also begin reducing risk factors and reversing type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and depression in as few as nine weeks, as well as prevent cancers and slow the aging process itself.Now, for the first time, Dr. Ornish pulls all the remarkable science together into a simple four-part plan.