The Capability Code How to Stay Independent, Sharp, and Powerful for Life
Language: English
Published by USA Book Services, 2026
- Softcover
- New

Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Condition: New
£ 17.03
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketSeller Inventory # I-9781971650746
- Title
- The Capability Code How to Stay Independent, Sharp, and Powerful for Life
- Author
- Smith, Ivette
- Publisher
- USA Book Services
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1971650749
- ISBN 13
- 9781971650746
What if the real cost of “toughness” isn’t visible until decades later?
In The Capability Code, Ivette Smith delivers a powerful blend of science, lived experience, and hard-earned wisdom about aging, resilience, and the hidden consequences of pushing through pain. After multiple surgeries, a medical discharge from the United States Air Force, chronic injury, and ultimately a reverse total shoulder replacement at 56, Smith confronts the truth: strength without strategy leads to breakdown.
This is not a gentle book about aging gracefully. It is an unflinching examination of cumulative damage physical, hormonal, neurological, financial and what happens when high-performance cultures normalize self-destruction in the name of discipline and grit.
Backed by research in cellular aging, hormone health, nutrition science, injury prevention, cognitive resilience, and long-term recovery, The Capability Code offers a roadmap for:
-
Understanding biological changes after 30
-
Preventing sarcopenia and joint deterioration
-
Protecting cognitive and emotional health
-
Navigating menopause and hormonal shifts
-
Avoiding the long-term financial cost of chronic injury
-
Rebuilding strength after physical setbacks
-
Aging with independence and capability
This book is especially vital for veterans, first responders, athletes, healthcare workers, and professionals who were taught that pain equals progress.
If you are in your 30s and want to prevent long-term damage…
If you are in your 40s navigating metabolic and hormonal change…
If you are in your 50s or 60s rebuilding after injury…
The Capability Code will help you age strategically, intelligently, and powerfully without sacrificing your future.
Because real strength isn’t pushing until you break.
It’s building a body and mind that last.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
California Books
Miami, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 3 to 7 business days | 2 to 5 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 0.00 | £ 9.02 |
Payment methods
Store description
We have 20 years experience selling books worldwide! Friendly customer support. Your satisfaction guaranteed!
Specialty
All authorized categoriesSeller's business information
Miramar International Services LLC
FL, U.S.A.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to California Books, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.