Chris Crowley - Dr Henry Lodge - Younger Next Year

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Author Profile – Chris Crowley – Dr Henry Lodge – Younger Next Year – Aging

Chris Crowley and Dr Henry Lodge are the authors of Younger Next Year – the New York Times bestseller with over two million copies sold in twenty-three languages.

All Younger Next Year books are authored or co-authored by Chris Crowley. Dr Henry Lodge and Dr Jeremy James co-authored four and one of the Younger Next Year books.

Crowley was a litigation partner at a leading Wall Street law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell. For twenty-five years, he led teams in the usual run of big cases for major companies. He retired early “to live more than one life.” He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and grew up in Marblehead and Peabody. He graduated from Exeter, Harvard College, and the University of Virginia Law School. He has three children and six grandchildren. Chris and Hilary live in Lakeville, Connecticut and New York City and spend time in Aspen. They are avid skiers, bikers, and sailors. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1934.

Crowley is also the author of the legal thriller The Practical Navigator.

Dr Lodge headed a twenty-doctor practice in Manhattan. He was an American internist, geriatric medicine specialist. Lodge trained at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, later served as the Robert Burch Family Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr James is a Doctor of Chiropractic, strength and conditioning specialist, and back-pain healer. His work centers on a behavioral, whole-body approach to back pain, shaped by his own injuries and his belief that lasting relief comes from changing habits, posture, and movement. He is also the founder of BackForever.com.

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Chris Crowley Books – Dr Henry Lodge Books – Younger Next year – Aging

Chris Crowley, and co-authors Dr Lodge and Dr James, are best known for the bestseller Younger Next Year books. Initial publications highlight medical research on positive aging and identify key behavioral factors, such as exercise. Subsequent publications apply key lessons (e.g. back book) or on how-to guides that help readers to adopt key learnings into their everyday lives (e.g. exercise program).

The books are a practical, plain-English guide to staying healthier, stronger and more active as you age. They focus on healthy aging and longevity. They reference medical studies and provide practical insight on topics such as retirement exercise, retirement diet and retirement health and the relevant positive impact on positive healthy aging. The core idea is simple: later life can be better, but only if you treat movement, habits and relationships as daily priorities.

The books in the series focus on the same big message from different angles. They explain why regular exercise matters, how social connection affects well-being, and why small, repeated choices often matter more than dramatic lifestyle changes. The tone is encouraging rather than preachy, which has helped the series appeal to readers who want motivation without heavy medical language.