Unbreakable: A Woman’s Guide to Aging with Power – by Dr. Vonda Wright

The author, an orthopedic surgeon and longevity specialist, puts the focus on a) women b) musculoskeletal health.

Because, while when thinking about hormones and health a lot of people focus on visible things like hair and nails and such, when it comes to the effects of untreated menopause, let’s face it: more people die from the consequences of a broken hip than from a broken nail.

So, she wants us to avoid the train of sarcopenia → osteopenia → osteoporosis → fractures → infections → death, by reducing our risk factors early, and staying more robust and biologically younger.

She advises doing this in four main ways:

• Exercise: because stronger muscles mean stronger bones, and the impact on metabolic health is important too
• Nutrition: nourishing our muscles and bones, looking after our gut microbiome, and eliminating inflammation
• Supplements: mostly things we can’t reasonably get from diet, such as senolytics that tackle aging on a cellular level
• Lifestyle: in ways not already covered by the above three methods, so now we’re adding such things as sleep, stress management, and so forth.
  • This may sound like an optional add-on, but the reality is that our body can’t do the other things properly if we don’t also have this in hand.

With these things in order, she argues, we can reasonably expect to go from strength to strength, rather than the decline that most people experience in later years.

The style is light and personable easy-reading pop-science, with minimal jargon, and any necessary terms explained. After a respectable bibliography, there are also appendices with exercise protocols, recipes, and a how-to guide for managing pain and injury.

Bottom line: if you are a woman and/or care about a woman, the contents of this book are something you should know inside-out, because it’s that important.

Click here to check out Unbreakable, and make yourself as unbreakable as humanly possible!