Best Longevity Books of 2025

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Dr. Peter Attia is a groundbreaking manifesto that challenges conventional medical thinking on aging. Dr. Attia draws on the latest science to offer innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. The book is a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving physical, cognitive, and emotional health. Outlive is not just another book on biohacking, but a science-based approach to creating a personalized, proactive strategy for longevity. Overall, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to live longer and better.

Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully is a must-read for anyone who wants to improve their overall quality of life. The book offers simple and proven physical practices that can help reduce stiffness, aches, and pains, and boost mobility. The authors, Kelly and Juliet Starrett, have worked with pro-athletes, Olympians, and Navy Seals, and have developed an easy-to-use formula for basic mobility maintenance. The book provides practical ways to integrate movement into daily life, improve nutrition and sleep, manage stress and pain, and assess progress. Built to Move is a game plan for anyone who wants to continue doing what they love for as long as possible.

Young Forever by Dr. Mark Hyman is a comprehensive guide to reversing disease, reducing pain, and living a longer, healthier life. The author challenges the traditional notion of aging as an inevitable process and instead portrays it as a treatable disease. By addressing the root causes of aging, Dr. Hyman provides science-based strategies and tips to increase health span, prevent and reverse age-related diseases, and live a fulfilling life. The book features a simple dietary plan, exercise, sleep, and stress reduction techniques, and emerging longevity strategies. Young Forever is an impressive guidebook to health and longevity that will revolutionize how we approach aging.

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life is an international bestseller that emphasizes finding one's ikigai, or reason for living, as the key to a fulfilling life. Through interviews with residents of a Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds, the authors reveal the secrets to longevity and happiness, including how to simplify one's life and find satisfaction in everyday activities. The book also provides practical tools to help readers discover their own ikigai. Overall, this book offers a unique perspective on the pursuit of happiness and provides valuable insights for those seeking a more fulfilling life.

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness is a book that explores what makes a happy, fulfilling life. The authors, directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, reveal that relationships are the key to a happy and healthy life. Through personal stories of study participants, the book shows how relationships in all forms contribute to a happier life. The book has been praised by bestselling authors and happiness experts alike for its warmth, wisdom, and compelling life stories. Overall, The Good Life offers invaluable insights into the power of relationships and how they can make our lives happier and more fulfilling.

The Blue Zones Kitchen by Dan Buettner is a cookbook filled with 100 longevity recipes inspired by the Blue Zones, where people live the longest and healthiest lives. The recipes use ingredients and cooking methods proven to increase longevity, wellness, and mental health. The book also includes lifestyle tips from countries as far away as Japan and as near as Blue Zones project cities in Texas. The photographs are gorgeous, and the write-ups are very interesting, making it a page-turner. The Blue Zones Kitchen is a beautifully presented package and contains tantalizing but healthy dishes that are easy to follow and delicious.

Life Force by Tony Robbins is a groundbreaking book that reveals the latest breakthroughs in precision medicine to transform your life. Robbins brings more than 100 of the world's top medical minds together to share inspiring stories, cutting-edge tools, and technology used by peak performers to extend the length and quality of life. The book is for everyone who wants to increase their energy, prevent disease, and turn back their biological clock. After being told his health challenges were irreversible, Robbins experienced firsthand how regenerative technology not only helped him heal but also made him stronger than ever before. Life Force is a must-read for those looking to transform and even save their lives.

A paradigm-shifting book, Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To, is a New York Times bestseller written by Dr. David Sinclair, a leading world authority on genetics and longevity. He proposes a bold theory that aging is a disease and it is treatable. The book takes readers to the frontlines of research that is pushing the boundaries on our perceived scientific limitations, revealing incredible breakthroughs that demonstrate how we can slow down or even reverse aging. Through a page-turning narrative, Dr. Sinclair invites readers into the process of scientific discovery and reveals the emerging technologies and simple lifestyle changes that have been shown to help us live younger and healthier for longer. This book is a roadmap for taking charge of our own health destiny and a bold new vision for the future of humankind.

The Whole Body Reset is a weight-loss plan designed for people at midlife and beyond. It challenges the myth of inevitable weight gain and muscle loss as we age and presents evidence about the power of "protein timing" for people at midlife. The program doesn't use trendy gimmicks but instead focuses on six simple secrets and scores of recipes that are easy to follow. The Whole Body Reset is approved by an international board of doctors, nutritionists, and fitness experts and has been tested by a panel of more than 100 AARP employees. This book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to stay lean, active, and strong for decades to come.

You don't have to accept the negative effects of aging as inevitable. In "Younger for Life," Dr. Anthony Youn shows readers how to reverse the process through a combination of intermittent fasting, autojuvenation-promoting foods, a simple skincare routine, and more. He also covers Botox, fillers, and other treatments. This accessible guide offers innovative tips and techniques to help readers live longer, look better, and feel amazing—for life.