Live Long and Strong - by Don Colbert (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Your health is not an accident--it's the result of choices you make daily for your spirit, soul, and body. In Live Long and Strong, best-selling author and physician Don Colbert, MD, equips you with practical tools, biblical wisdom, and cutting-edge medical insights to help you live with strength, energy, and longevity.

In Live Long and Strong, Dr. Colbert pulls back the curtain on twelve essential health markers every person should know--numbers that determine not just how long you live but how well you live. From inflammation levels (CRP) to brain-protecting homocysteine, from thyroid and testosterone balance to vitamin D, and more, these numbers reveal what's really happening inside your body--and how to fix it before disease takes hold.

Review Quotes

Most longevity books tell you to eat less and move more. This one tells you exactly which twelve numbers in your body are silently determining how long and how well you live, and precisely what to do about each one.

Don Colbert has written some of the most widely read books in Christian health publishing. His books on keto, gut health, hormones, and fasting have helped millions. Live Long and Strong is the book that ties everything together, the master framework that shows why the same patient can read a fasting book, a gut health book, and a blood sugar book and still not get results, because they are missing the one thing that makes all the other pieces work: knowing their actual numbers.

This is not a blue zones book about populations that happened to live long. It is a clinical roadmap from a physician who has treated more than fifty thousand patients and seen what actually moves the needle. For anyone dealing with a Hashimoto's book diagnosis, navigating insulin resistance book territory, fighting inflammation book battles that never seem to resolve, or trying to stop the cognitive slide that dementia prevention book research says starts decades before symptoms appear, this book addresses every one of those issues, in plain language, with practical steps.

The body God created is designed to heal. But it needs the right conditions. This book tells you exactly what those conditions are.

Excerpt from Chapter 5: The Fire Within - How Inflammation Destroys from the Inside Out

High-sensitivity C-reactive protein is your body's early warning system. It measures inflammation, the silent fire that fuels nearly every chronic disease.

Extensive, long-term studies involving thousands of people have shown that elevated HS-CRP levels are strongly linked to future heart attacks, strokes, peripheral artery disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and even early cardiac death.

I recently saw a 66-year-old man who illustrated this. He came into my office struggling with knee pain so severe that he could barely walk. His BMI was over 40, and he'd been living with type 2 diabetes for more than a decade. Inflammation was taking a toll on every system in his body. Within weeks, his blood sugar levels came down, his energy increased, and his pain started to ease. He still had work to do, but the numbers began moving in the right direction, proof that when you reduce inflammation, the body begins to heal.

Unfortunately, most doctors don't test for hs-CRP unless there's already a serious diagnosis. But knowing your hs-CRP level can give you a powerful head start. If your HS-CRP is creeping up, your body is telling you something. And when you listen, take action, and lower that number, you're not just preventing disease, you're also extending your life.

-- Don Colbert, MD, Live Long and Strong

About the Author

Don Colbert, MD

Most doctors treat disease after it appears. Don Colbert has spent forty years trying to stop it before it starts.

A graduate of Oral Roberts University School of Medicine, Detoxandbodycleanse Dr. Colbert completed his internship and residency at Florida Hospital before building one of the most recognized Christian health practices in America. He is board-certified in both family practice and anti-aging medicine and has treated more than 50,000 patients using nutritional, preventive, and integrative approaches.

He has sold more than ten million books, making him one of the bestselling Christian health authors of all time. His titles span the full spectrum of the longevity diet book and healthy aging book conversation: The Seven Pillars of Health, Dr. Colbert's Keto Zone Diet, Dr. Colbert's Healthy Gut Zone, Beyond Keto, Stress Less, Dr. Colbert's Hormone Health Zone, and Dr. Colbert's Fasting Zone, among many others. Three of his books reached the New York Times bestseller list.

He has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Fox News, ABC World News, BBC, and Newsweek, and serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. CBN

Dr. Colbert and his wife, Mary, divide their time between Orlando, Florida, and Dallas, Texas, where he continues to see patients and develop his Divine Health supplement line.