Slow Aging: The East Asian Way: Perimenopause, menopause, and the practice of strength, beauty, and vitality after forty
Language: English
Published by RUONAN LOU, 2026
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- Title
- Slow Aging: The East Asian Way: Perimenopause, menopause, and the practice of strength, beauty, and vitality after forty
- Author
- Lou, Ruonan
- Publisher
- RUONAN LOU
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1067952500
- ISBN 13
- 9781067952501
"Slow aging is not what happens to you in your forties. It is what you decide to do about it."
At forty-four, after fifteen years as a healthcare consultant, Ruonan woke at three in the morning with her heart pounding to a deadline. Living in the middle of perimenopause, her body, she realized, had been paying a bill she had not been reading.
She returned to the practices that brought her back — not new, not from a clinic, but already in her kitchen. The daily attendance to the body her grandmother taught her over decades of meals and small corrections at the table.
Slow Aging is the translation of that inheritance: one woman's family lineage, twenty-five centuries of Traditional Chinese Medicine and East Asian longevity wisdom, and a decade of Western aging-science research, distilled into a practical map for women in midlife — the second half of a woman's life.
This is not anti-aging. Anti-aging is a fight, and the fight is a trap. Slow aging, the Chinese have a word for it — redirection. The energy that once nourished new life now turns inward.
Inside, you'll find a complete system for healthy aging built on four pillars:
I · The Body & Seven-Year Cycles — Understanding your body's natural rhythms through TCM and how hormonal shifts in your 40s and 50s are a season, not a decline.
II · The Five Elements — A framework for balance, energy, and emotional resilience drawn from Wu Xing philosophy and Taoist wellness practice.
III · Intentional Beauty — Skincare, nourishment, and self-care rituals rooted in ancient wisdom and modern longevity science, for women who want to age with intention, not resistance.
IV · The Long Game — A sustainable, holistic approach to healthy aging, vitality, and living well past fifty — grounded in daily practice, not quick fixes.
For any woman navigating perimenopause, menopause, or midlife transition and searching for a gentler, more grounded alternative to the anti-aging industry, Slow Aging offers something rarer than a routine: a philosophy you can actually live by.
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