{"product_id":"bernd-heinrich-racing-the-clock-9780062973276","title":"Racing the Clock","description":"An\n\u003cbr\u003e\naward-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his\n\u003cbr\u003e\nlong-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime Part\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmemoir, part scientific investigation, Racing the Clock is\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe book biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich has been waiting his\n\u003cbr\u003e\nentire life to write. A dedicated and accomplished marathon (and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nultra-marathon) runner who won his first marathon at age thirty-nine, Heinrich\n\u003cbr\u003e\nlooks deeply at running, aging, and the body, exploring the unresolved\n\u003cbr\u003e\nrelationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age.  Why do some bodies age differently than others? How\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmuch control do we have over that process and what effect, if any, does being\n\u003cbr\u003e\nactive have? Bringing to bear research from his entire career and in the spirit\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof his classic Why We Run, Heinrich probes the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nquestions of how we use energy and continue to adapt to our mutable\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsurroundings and circumstances. Beyond that, he examines how our bodies change\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwhile we age but also how we can work with, if not overcome, many of these\n\u003cbr\u003e\nchanges—and what all this tells us about evolution and the mechanisms of life,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nhealth, and happiness. Racing the Clock offers\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfascinating and surprising conclusions, all while bringing the reader along on\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHeinrich’s compelling journey to what he says will be his final race—a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfifty-kilometer race at age eighty. ","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53409203552598,"sku":"9780062973276-V","price":1.79,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780062973276_1_d9021b1e-b0c0-4f9f-ae93-aeef50be2066.jpg?v=1778143528","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/bernd-heinrich-racing-the-clock-9780062973276","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}