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ELLEN Wins GOLD Nautilus Book Award!

Ellen's audio book THINK and GROW YOUNG – Powerful Steps to Create a Life of Joy, won the 2011 GOLD Nautilus Book Award in the audio book category! Award winners were announced at the Book Expo America in New York City. By winning a GOLD Nautilus Book Award, Ellen joins a prestigious group of authors including Deepak Chopra, Carolyn Myss, Eckert Tolle and Marianne Williamson.

How To Be Young and Joyful At Any Age

Los Angeles -- Aging isn’t what we’ve been led to think, according to Taos NM resident Ellen Wood, age-reversing pioneer, columnist and author of THINK and GROW YOUNG – Powerful Steps to Create a Life of Joy. “You don’t have to become weak, lose your faculties or stop living your dreams as you age. That’s just an idea we’ve all come to believe. It’s a powerful belief with negative results because what we believe can have a profound effect on the cells of our bodies, according to epigenetic scientists. This new science is also proving that we can change our beliefs and therefore change our biology,” says Wood.

In their talks together, Grow Young Guide and author, Ellen Wood, and Dr. Terry Grossman, one of the world’s top anti-aging physicians and medical director of Grossman Wellness Center in Denver, share their knowledge and action steps for growing younger.

Together, Wood and Dr. Grossman teach from the personal experience of growing younger and the physician’s knowledge and experience – resulting in a life-changing presentation. It is titled How to Be Young and Joyful at Any Age.

Grossman, an M.D. practicing in Colorado since completing medical school in 1979, focuses on integrative medicine and preventive wellness. He has developed successful protocols for the nutritional treatment of such diverse conditions as heart disease, many forms of cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, macular degeneration and autistic spectrum disorders. In 2000, Dr. Grossman began to include age management medicine as a major focus of his medical practice. Since that time patients have come to the center from all over the US and every continent of the world.

In her mid-70s, Ellen Wood is living proof that it’s possible to grow younger and reverse the symptoms of aging most people accept as normal. After watching her mother waste away with Alzheimer’s, Wood expected the same to be her fate. Before long, this vibrant, retired marketing executive began to experience short-term memory loss and other distressing signs of progressive deterioration. Then something happened. Ellen Wood, at age 67, decided not to go that route. She made up her mind to grow younger and got busy finding out how she might do that.

Her own program, involving body, mind and spirit action steps, turned her life around. Wood regained her mental acuity; a stronger, more flexible body and the stamina and energy she’d had 30 years before. That’s when she knew she had to share her findings and help others grow younger as well.

After publishing her first book, Wood began speaking professionally for corporations and conferences as well as sharing her tips through a newspaper column, blog and newsletters. Her website is www.howtogrowyounger.com.

Author of The Baby Boomer's Guide to Living Forever (2000), Dr. Grossman collaborated with futurist Ray Kurzwell to coauthor Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever in 2004. His latest book, TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever was published in April 2009. Dr. Grossman’s website is www.grossmanwellness.com.

For interviews with Ellen Wood, contact her at 575-586-1363

For interviews with Dr. Terry Grossman, contact Ardis Hoffman at 303-233-4247

Vivacious Author Grows Younger And Shares How

TAOS, NM:  Ellen Wood, in her mid-70s, is on a mission to show people how to grow younger, and is living proof that it's possible. In 2004, Wood began a daily program of practices she created with the goal of growing younger, and it worked. She has regained the energy she enjoyed 30 years ago; has a clearer, sharper mind and stronger body; and has the stamina, flexibility and vitality of her much younger self. This success in reversing the accepted pattern of aging led Wood to share her techniques for growing younger.

"The first step to growing younger is accepting the fact that you can. Mankind couldn't fly until a few pioneering people started figuring out how. They couldn't have succeeded in flying if they hadn't first believed it was possible," says Wood. "Our thoughts and beliefs work like the software in a computer; they program our body and mind which then responds to all the signals and prompts. Our beliefs, many of which we aren’t even consciously aware of, are influencing our mental and physical health and wellbeing which influences our happiness."

According to Wood, once we understand how much thoughts and beliefs determine what takes place in our bodies and lives, we can begin to take control, change our thought patterns, replace limiting beliefs and create the joyful life we want.

In THINK and GROW YOUNG – Powerful Steps to Create a Life of Joy Wood describes processes to uncover and replace unconscious beliefs that block the possibility of growing younger. Both the book and her workshop create the foundation for change.

Wood points out that science and medicine are both moving in the direction of making the reality of growing younger a widely accepted concept. Advances in molecular biology, organ tissue regeneration and nanotechnology indicate that age-related illness and infirmity may be eradicated in the next 20 or 30 years.
 
Wood's book has been endorsed by a number of notable physicians including David Simon MD, medical director of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing; Larry Dossey MD; Richard Moss MD; and C. Norman Shealy MD, PhD, bestselling author of Life Beyond 100. Shealy, who wrote the foreword for Wood's book, says, "Ellen Wood has integrated this century of positive thinking and its effect upon health to the next level – its power not only to retard aging but to reverse it!"

For more information about Ellen Wood, visit www.howtogrowyounger.com. Copies of the book are available at workshops, online at the site and at www.Amazon.com for $17.95 each with 10% of all author royalties donated to 501(c)3 not-for-profits that provide humanitarian aid and support. A FREE copy of the Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2 is available for download as a gift.

(A copy of the book for review purposes is available by calling 575-586-1363.)