Lucian Freud, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, 1995-6
(July 12, 2020) I wanted to read something by Frank Lipman because he is/was the vitamin guy for Goop and got me thinking carefully about omega-3s… and eventually about collagen. I remember liking his opinion that all you really need as supplements are omega-3s, collagen and Vitamin D.
But as I get into this book, I find itʼs about basically the same things as Sara Gottfriedʼs book Younger, which I read just four or five months ago -- eat right, sleep long, do some yoga, take this one vitamin (lol). I should have topic fatigue here. And why is Goop lining up so many duplicates among their experts?
Anyway -- although the books recommend almost the same health protocols, and offer you two-week or however-many-week programs guaranteed to revitalize you or reset your biological age -- Sara is very much into how your actual cells will change under the microscope and how you will have different chemical results when tested for various conditions, while Frank is very much into making you feeeeeeel good. It's all about you feeling young again (and slim). He also encourages people to customize his various recommendations to suit their own bodies, believing each individual is their own best doctor, which is appealing.
I guess there is a slightly different focus -- she is a genetic researcher, and he is a naturopath, lol.
But, again, in terms of living according to a protocol, just as I'm never going to try to go to bed early for Sara, I wonʼt be trying to go to bed early for Frank. My circadian rhythms will never be top-notch.
I do admire the careful thinking that went into these protocols, though. And you canʼt help picking up a few good habits each time you read one of these guides. Maybe.
