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Age Better: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and the Path to Getting Older with Grace, by Frank Lipman, MD

The new book · March 2027

Age Better

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and the Path to Getting Older with Grace

By Frank Lipman, MD

Four decades of caring for patients. A lifetime of asking what helps us live well. Dr. Lipman brings it all together in a practical, deeply personal guide to aging.

Coming March 2, 2027 from Infinite Books.
Hardcover preorder coming soon.

Read the endorsements ↓
“Age Better will completely change the way you think about getting older.”
David Perlmutter, MD Author of Grain Brain and Brain Defenders

Inside the book

A foundation for
living well.

Age Better begins with the everyday foundations of health: food, movement, sleep, stress, connection, and purpose. From there, Dr. Lipman explores how understanding your own biology can help you make more informed choices.

Organized as a pyramid, the book moves from those foundations to testing, supplements, hormones, peptides, and other tools of modern longevity medicine. Each layer builds on what comes before it.

Throughout, he returns to the people and experiences that have shaped his practice, and to the place of flexibility, pleasure, and meaning in a life well lived.

Praise for Age Better

In their words.

Dr Lipman is the rare doctor who understands you need both the science and the art of medicine. In Age Better, he tells you exactly what to test and what to take, then reminds you that grace, not perfection, is what actually carries you through the decades ahead. Few doctors understand that. Fewer still can teach it.
Gwyneth Paltrow
In an ever more crowded field of advice on leading a longer, healthier and happier life— Age Better is music above the din. Frank Lipman’s decades of experience and genuine interest in improving the human experience is breathtaking. This is who I turn to when I want to understand what really matters for my whole health. Reading this book is like having a conversation with someone who genuinely wants you to live a longer, healthier, and happier life.
Téa LeoniActress
Frank Lipman is my trusted friend, and I've come to cherish his wisdom on all things wellness. Age Better is filled with that same wisdom, warmth, and deep understanding of what it means to live well. This is not just another book about living longer. It’s about making those years truly matter.
Bobbi BrownMakeup artist and founder, Jones Road Beauty
Amid the hype, conflicting advice, and endless promises of the longevity world, Frank Lipman has a rare ability to cut through the noise and focus on what truly matters. Age Better brings together the wisdom, experience, and humanity I’ve come to value so deeply in him. It’s thoughtful, practical guidance from a doctor I trust completely.
Keri RussellActress
Dr Lipman's origin story is as spell binding as his weaving of modern western tertiary medicine with the wisdom of eastern traditional practices into a pyramid of longevity science. As one of the original physicians to approach people as a whole, and not merely a sum of various parts, his experience and guidance make "Age Better" mandatory reading for all who want to age with grace and power, guided by both wisdom and science.
Vonda Wright, MDOrthopedic surgeon and New York Times bestselling author of Unbreakable
There are countless books about living longer. But Age Better asks the more important question: how can we live better for longer? Frank Lipman offers a wonderfully balanced answer centered on building strength, protecting metabolism, sleeping restoratively, managing stress, staying connected, understanding your unique biology, and yes, using modern medicine intelligently when it can help. The result is a powerful guide to adding life to your years, not merely years to your life.
David Perlmutter, MDAuthor of Grain Brain and Brain Defenders
Most longevity books hand you a protocol. This one hands you a philosophy and then backs it with real science. Frank Lipman understands what the biohacking world keeps missing: rigidity is its own disease, and the point of adding years is to have more life inside them, not more spreadsheets. Age Better is the rare book that will make you healthier and lighter at the same time.
Amy Killen, MDAuthor of The Female Longevity Advantage
I've spent over twenty-five years in this field, and I can count on one hand the books I'd put in a patient's hands without caveats. This is one of them. Dr Frank Lipman has done something rare: he's taken four decades of clinical wisdom, from a sangoma's compound in KwaNdebele to an acupuncture clinic in the South Bronx to the frontier of peptide science, and distilled it into a book that is rigorous without being rigid. His pyramid gets the order of operations right: foundations first, precision tools second, joy always. (Though as the peptide evangelist in his life, I'll keep lobbying him to move them up a tier.) Read it. Then go share a bagel with someone you love. He'd approve.
Elizabeth Yurth, MDMedical Director and Chief Medical Officer, Boulder Longevity
In Age Better, my friend and colleague Dr. Frank Lipman brings decades of experience and a deeply human perspective to the science of longevity. What makes this book so compelling is his ability to embrace the promise of modern longevity medicine without losing sight of the fundamentals that matter most. He reminds us that aging well is not about perfection or chasing every new intervention. It is about building a strong foundation and preserving the vitality, connection, purpose, and function that make life meaningful. Frank’s wisdom and experience shine through on every page. Age Better will help shape the conversation about not just how long we live, but how well we age.
Jessica Shepherd, MDChief Medical Officer, Hers; OB/GYN, menopause and longevity expert
Frank Lipman is one of my favorite mentors and teachers, and one of my dearest friends. Long before functional medicine had a name, he was practicing it — sitting with patients, listening, asking why, refusing to accept that a normal lab result meant a well person. I have learned a great deal from watching him work. This book is his life’s work and an act of real generosity. He takes everything we now understand about aging — mitochondria, hormones, peptides, sleep, the hallmarks, the tests worth doing and the ones that aren’t — and makes it usable, without the fanaticism that has swallowed so much of wellness culture. Then he does the harder thing. He reminds you that the point of a longer life is a fuller one. A meal with people you love. An afternoon with a grandchild. Read it. Then go live the way it teaches you to. Your body will thank you, and so will everyone who loves you.
Alejandro Junger, MDCardiologist, functional medicine practitioner and three-time New York Times bestselling author
Frank Lipman is a visionary physician. He is also a dear friend, a partner, a mentor, an educator, and this book is all four of those things at once. It reads as a philosophy, a life's work, and a legacy , and longevity guide in your hand. Whether you are at the base of the longevity pyramid or reaching for mastery, he meets you there and gives you the full picture, with generosity, love, and humility. A must read.
David Luu, MDFounder and CEO, LongevityDocs
Not everyone with an answer deserves your trust. In a longevity world crowded with noise, Dr. Frank Lipman brings something far more valuable: discernment. Age Better reflects what has always made his approach so powerful, a rare ability to draw from science, nature, and decades of experience to understand what we truly need to thrive. Frank is wise, curious, kind, and refreshingly free of ego. This book is not about chasing every new longevity promise. It’s about knowing what matters, trusting your body, and living not just longer, but better.
Tracy AndersonFounder of Tracy Anderson Method
Most longevity books make life sound like a lab experiment. Age Better makes it sound like a life worth living. Frank Lipman gives us the science without the obsession, the discipline without the joylessness, and a deeply human reminder that movement, purpose, connection, and pleasure aren't distractions from health. They are health. I want everyone I love to read this book.
Alberto PerlmanCo-founder and CEO, Zumba Fitness
Frank Lipman has done it again. Age Better gives you the science of longevity without turning your life into a science experiment. Blending ancient wisdom, modern medicine, and deeply human insight, Frank shows us how to live longer and stronger—without losing the joy that makes those extra years worth having.
JJ VirginNutrition and fitness expert; four-time New York Times bestselling author
Dr. Frank Lipman is the doctor we can trust in confusing times. Age Better brings together his decades of wisdom, experience, and genuine care into the essential guide for living well.
Tara StilesAuthor of Living Softly and founder of Strala Yoga
Packed with science and powerful storytelling, this book is as uplifting as it is instructive. Frank Lipman is your favorite uncle who genuinely cares about your life well lived.
Harriet Beinfield, LAcAuthor of Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine
Every week a patient asks me about a protocol they saw online, and every week I have to talk them down from something expensive and unnecessary. Dr. Lipman has done that work for all of us. He tells you what's foundational, what's optional, and what's marketing dressed up as medicine — and he does it without ever making you feel like you're failing. Rare, useful, and honest.
Gil Chimes, DCGreenwich Sports Medicine
With his vast experience in integrative medicine, Dr. Frank Lipman brings us a deeply personal journey into the true meaning of Longevity. By sharing his many insights in easy to implement steps, Frank lays out a clear path for anyone eager to live a rich and fulfilling life.
Stephen Cowan, MD, FAAPAuthor of Fire Child, Water Child

Coming March 2, 2027

Make room for Age Better.