The Perricone Prescription: A Physician's 28-Day Program for Total Body and Face Rejuvenation

Written by Nicholas Perricone

Narrated by Robb Webb

The groundbreaking, scientifically based anti-aging program for people of all ages

Many people believe that sags, bags, and wrinkles—on the face and body—are inevitable. According to award-winning research scientist and dermatologist Nicholas Perricone, M.D., they are due to inflammation at the cellular level caused by poor nutrition, pollution, sunlight, irritating skin care treatments, and stress. In fact, this type of inflammation is more than a beauty problem; it can lead to increased likelihood of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis.

Now you can prevent—and even reverse—many signs of aging, producing visible improvement in the skin, and in your body’s overall health and appearance. Step by step, Dr. Perricone shows you how to improve your health, looks, and well-being, providing:

• A three-day “jump start” diet that will give you immediate results

• The 28-day Perricone Program of meals, exercise, and skin care

• A complete resource guide

• And much more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Apr 19, 2005
• ISBN: 9780060842925

Nicholas Perricone

Nicholas Perricone, M.D., is the author of three #1 New York Times bestsellers–The Wrinkle Cure, The Perricone Prescription, and The Perricone Promise–as well as The Acne Prescription. He is a board-certified dermatologist, award-winning inventor, research scientist, and internationally renowned anti-aging expert. He is the focus of a series of award-winning PBS specials, and a popular guest on Oprah, Today, and 20/20, among many other programs.

Reviews for The Perricone Prescription

[laugal-2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent book. It is just basic common sense. Eat real,fresh food like berries,produce and nuts and grains,salmon.Forget the processed foods. He gives indepth descriptions of supplements and why we should eat the good foods and stay away from the processed foods.

[the_hag · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Ok…I really haven’t gone insane. I saw this particular “diet” mentioned on a show I was watching about a month or so ago and the dietitian talked about how the “core” of the program is actually pretty solid but she thought, by and large the supplement and skin care regimen that he’s created is “excessive” – I think she was one step away from saying it’s just too much (money) to be spending and too much to be taking in terms of vitamins and other supplements. If you did everything Perricone said, you’d be taking about 20 vitamins and various other supplements and putting 4-7 lotions and topical creams on your person everyday, twice a day…and most of them are hundreds of dollars apiece if you’re buying his brand (and still quite pricey of you “shop around” for the same thing from another manufacturer). You’d be spending several thousand dollars a month just on supplements and creams before you even got to the food part of this. Reading this and being able to be objective out it (i.e. I’m not looking for a quick fix, I’m looking for additional strategies to add to this whole healthy living adventure thing I’ve got going on) it’s slap you in your face obvious how this guy makes his living because, according to him, everything can be made all better with these supplements and creams. My complaint with this is it’s clearly for people who are making a LOT of money…he wants you to eat fish (specifically Alaskan salmon, but a few others are in there too) seven days a week and for more than one meal a day…according to him, that should be the staple of the diet with some chicken and turkey breast thrown in, but never beef. If everyone were to suddenly start eating like this, wouldn’t that have a long term negative impact on the salmon population….for the amounts he’s recommending, it seems like this diet will coast a lot of $$$ to stick to the letter of the plan. I think I’ve come away from it with some things I can defiantly work into my plan and it was interesting to read about health and well-being from a dermatologist perspective, but I’m guessing the people who can really embrace and benefit from this type of diet/lifestyle long term are the one’s making loads and loads of money. I do give kudos that all the recipes are the embodiment of simplicity, even my 8 year old daughter could make everything listed in the recipe section…he seems to think under his plan you could eat this way for the rest of you life…I think you’d get sick of salmon after a while…no matter the health benefit, eating ONLY one food 95% of the time, in my opinion can be really hard to stick with long term (unless you’re fanatical about salmon). Overall, interesting read from a dermatological perspective, but not something I think most people would be able or willing to do for a lifetime. I’ve come away from it with a few new ideas about supplements (small changes that I can make that won’t cost me tons of $$$) and some new (for me) info on bad and good sugars and carbs. I give it a C simply because the average Joe couldn’t get on this program without bankrupting themselves.