Mr. Chris Crowley This is Me

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1. 1. Davis Polk & Wardwell

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   Published on: 6/11/2008   Last Visited: 6/11/2008

   Christopher Crowley - Senior Counsel

2. 2. www.crowcreative.com

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   Published on: 3/1/2008   Last Visited: 3/1/2008

   Chris Crowley, N.Y. Times best selling co-author of the YOUNGER NEXT YEAR books, is also a featured speaker to corporate and other groups. A retired litigation partner at the New York law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell , he lives in New York City and Lakeville, Connecticut.
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   It goes on, "What sets the book apart from its selfhelp brethren is its ebullient personality - which is mostly Chris's. Chris laces his very practical how-to advice with hilarious, self-effacing personal anecdotes, like the time he skied so hard it hurt to sleep. ... [He] writes like he talks, in full paragraphs ... but always hammering at his point."
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   The books by Crowley and his friend and co-author, Henry S. Lodge M.D. have been
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   Copyright © 2008 - Christopher Crowley. All Rights Reserved.

3. 3. Litchfield County Times - In Lakeville, Forever Young

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   Published on: 6/22/2006   Last Visited: 8/27/2006

   Chris Crowley doesn't believe in getting old. The 71-year-old former New York City litigator has reinvented himself as an anti-aging guru through his New York Times best-selling books "Younger Next Year" and "Younger Next Year For Women."
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   You do not have to go there," according to Mr. Crowley, a resident of Lakeville. While he does allow that "limited aspects of biological aging are immutable," such as the decline of resting heart rates and changes to skin and hair, he declares that "over 50 percent of all illness and injuries in the last third of your life can be eliminated by changing your lifestyle in the way we suggest. Along with all the misery, expense and lost joy that goes along with being seriously sick." The books' subtitles are "A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond" for men, and "Live Like You're 50-Strong, Fit, Sexy-Until You're 80 and Beyond" for the women. Mr. Crowley wrote the volumes with his doctor, New York City internist-gerontologist Henry S. Lodge. They're easy and engaging because the authors switch off chapters. Mr. Crowley's chapters are funny and believable, as they rely heavily on anecdotes and his use of words such as "crap." He writes like he's talking to a buddy over a beer, and that makes it easy to swallow what he's saying. Dr. Lodge gets into the biology and medical aspects of the issues in a straightforward way. The first book was published in 2004 and advocates commonsense practices such as exercise and healthy food. It has sold more than 277,000 hardcover copies, and the co-authors have appeared all over the country and on television including on "The Today Show" and "The View." The book delivers what some may consider a dose of tough love to the country's aging population. It mandates exercise six days a week, eating healthy, being social, traveling and staying sexual as you enter "the next third" of life. It's not a torture sentence though; Mr. Crowley wouldn't allow it to be. "I'm a lazy piggy too. I'm hardwired for pleasure, I'm self indulgent to a fault and I do all this crap," he said with a laugh. Does Mr. Crowley practice what he preaches? The day we met he had just returned from a week of rowing camp, where he had been rowing with a bunch of college students (in the final race he placed 23rd out of 35), and as I left he was pulling out his bicycle for a jaunt into town. But his kitchen also boasted a fully stocked bar and big bowls of snacks. "It's good solid stuff," he said of the books' advice.
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   The idea was partially to add more information specific to the book, but also to change what some thought was Mr. Crowley's gruff delivery and indelicate phrasing. "There was too much hair coming out of the ears and stuff like that," he said. The second book has the same principles, but delves into the issues of osteoporosis and menopausal issues, as well as touching on the looks issue. The authors wanted to take into account the fact that women live longer than men and often have more anxiety about physical aging, while men complain more about losing their sense of self when they retire. "Women are losing bone mass at the rate of 2 percent a year," Mr. Crowley said. "It's very, very scary. When women fall down and break their hip, 50 percent of them never walk again. This is from bone loss, which is stupid because it doesn't need to happen." He also noted that that many women face depression as they age. "They are taking more antidepressants and drinking more and that is toxic. Women are not having a nice time, divorce is rampant and sexuality goes down the rat hole," he said. Mr. Crowley is what some might call a bon vivant. He retired at 57 from Davis, Polk and Wardwell, which is "a fancy New York City law firm," in his words. He and his wife, painter Hilary Cooper, "went off and were ski bums for a couple of years in Aspen. I considered writing novels and I did two, but it didn't work out very well," he said of the unpublished tomes.
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   You live a third of your life after 55 or 60, and giving things up because you are hurting with every step is nuts," said Mr. Crowley. He and Dr. Lodge conceived the ideas in the book during "long walks along the East River or in Central Park." There are seven points the two developed by "tossing it back and forth for a year." "He knows everything," said Mr. Crowley of Dr. Lodge, who is a teaching physician at Columbia University, runs a 23-doctor practice and often appears on medical "best of" lists for New York and beyond. The concepts are simple, but ones that Americans, on the whole, don't follow. The reason for this, in the authors' opinion, is because this county's medical field focuses on treating symptoms rather than on lifestyle changes or preventative medicine. He notes the rise of "HMO culture" and the revolving-door effect of doctors often having just a few moments with each patient. "If we had a borderline rational system, we'd have a medical guy on every street corner telling people to do this stuff," he said. "If you stop 50 percent of the accidents from 50 until the day you die-holy moly! There's nothing as important as that." He also notes Americans' love of easy solutions and of infomercials selling pills and three-minute exercise routines as solutions. "They don't work. You have to sweat," he said. He called exercise "the great antidote to heart attacks, strokes, certain cancers and Alzheimer's, and certainly to the onset of Type 2 diabetes. These are horrendous diseases, killer diseases. When you exercise your blood chemistry changes. If you have stuff in you that's slightly inflammatory, you get stuff that's slightly deflamatory," he explained. The duo is tossing around the idea of collaborating for a food or diet book, but Mr. Crowley is not so sure he wants to go the way of the latter. "Ninety-five percent of diets don't work. Our answer on diets is, 'Don't eat crap,'" he said.