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Eternity Soup by Greg Critser
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Eternity Soup

Inside the Quest to End Aging

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Narrator Erik Synnestvedt

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Length 6 hours 19 minutes
Language English
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What happens when you mix modern medical entrepreneurship with one of the most ancient of human desires—the desire to live forever? The answer is today's multibillion-dollar antiaging industry, which promises everything from restoring lost vitality to actually turning back the hands of time for aging boomers. But who, exactly, makes up the antiaging movement, and what do they expect from the vast and growing antiaging apothecary? Who is simply manufacturing money from spurious claims and dubious products, and who is performing legitimate scientific research? One thing is clear: by the mid-twenty-first century, America will have one million centenarians. How much older, then, can (and should) we get?



Sharp, funny, fast-paced, and deeply informed, Eternity Soup is a full-course meal about our quest for immortality, spiced with human vanity, chicanery, and cutting-edge science.

Greg Critser is an award-winning writer about medicine, science, food, and health. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Times of London, Harper's, the New Yorker, and many other publications. He is the author of the national bestseller Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World and the award-winning Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Minds, Lives and Bodies.

Actor Erik Synnestvedt has recorded nearly two hundred audiobooks for trade publishers as well as for the Library of Congress Talking Books for the Blind program. They include The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak, A Game as Old as Empire edited by Steven Hiatt, and Twitter Power by Joel Comm.

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"A light and critical eye makes this excursion into front-end science an entertaining, enlightening trek." ---Publishers Weekly Starred Review Expand reviews
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