Live Forever?

A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death

Prof. John S. Tregoning

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One World
01 April 2025

Medicine; Personal & public health; Human biology; Popular medicine & health; Coping with personal problems; Fitness & diet

Nature wants you dead. Not just you, but your friends, family, pets – everyone you’ve ever met…

With over 17,000 known diseases affecting humans, and countless poisons, carcinogens and toxins in our environment, it’s a miracle that our bodies manage to keep us alive. And that is, of course, if they don’t 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 Forever? offers compelling insight into how our bodies work, how we can best look after them – and ultimately live longer, healthier lives.

By: Prof. John S. Tregoning
Imprint: One World
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 36mm
ISBN: 9780861549382
ISBN 10: 0861549384
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 01 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.

Reviews for Live Forever?: A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death

‘Warm, uplifting and laugh-out loud funny. But make no mistake, this is also a profound journey through countless frontiers of modern science, jam-packed with big ideas about what it takes to live well and be happy. Ostensibly about death, what comes across is a passion for life.’ —Daniel M. Davis, author of The Beautiful Cure and The Secret Body