Best longevity books according to redditors

My fiancé picked up The End of Old Age the new book from @MarcAgronin of @MIAJewishHealth. She’s a doctor of geriatric occupational therapy and swears that book is the best she’s read. Marc is brilliant. Very cool that the show is calling attention to this great institution.

https://www.amazon.com/Embryonic-Breathing-Taoist-Method-Opening/dp/1537777068
Do you know if this is a good guide? Or where should I learn embryonic breathing?

This post makes me very upset for a number of reasons, but mostly because you have essentially made what amounts to a character attack on me without doing any work to research the "mystic words" that I am talking about.

I want to avoid making another long form post, lest I risk you further trying to diagnose me, but I want to address why I use that language and what some of it means so that we can have some basis for communication here.

First, we are on a Daoism subreddit, which means that people post things relevant to Daoism. What I posted about is a very well established practice in Daoism with more than 1000 years of history.
Here is the wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neidan
The art is somewhat like Zen, but with more theory and coming from a Chinese Daoist background rather than a Japanese Buddhist background.

The wiki article doesn't cover all of the terminology I cited in my post, but that terminology is native to Neidan and if you google any of it in reference to neidan, you will find multiple hits, both in English and Chinese. The reason why I posted my experience is because it serves as a CV to people who know about Daoism. I probably shouldn't have taken it for granted that most people here would be familiar with those terms.

None of the practices in Neidan are based on mysticism and the things I mentioned are real physical experiences that accompany meditation practice.
It just so happens that they use archaic Chinese terminology to describe them, since Daoist practice is moored in Ancient and Medieval Daoist thought. I am not changing the terminology to make culturally bigoted Americans happy.

These concepts are native to Daoism, which I have been trained in for more than a decade by a Chinese teacher named Yang Hai.
This is his website
www.internalstyle.com

Yang Hai studied with the head of the White Cloud Temple in Beijing (Cao Zhenyang) who was one of the top priests in the Complete Reality Sect of Daoism at that time (late 1980s early 90s).

I am a translator and writer on the subject of Daoism and have work published in multiple places, including a book which was released by Tambuli Media in 2015, which can be seen here.
https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Elixir-Cultivation-Nature-Meditation/dp/1943155135/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493516052&sr=8-1&keywords=internal+elixir+cultivation

It was very upsetting to read your post which in effect makes the claim that I am a lunatic. I would really appreciate it if after looking at the links I sent you, you would be willing to either retract your post or at least thresh it out with me, because given that my profession relies on being seen as a legitimate commentator on Daoism (that is how I get work published), then having people making claims that I am a crazy fraud is very bad for business.

Also, just to address this:

"I can't diagnose anybody online,"

So then why did you just do so?

"But I would be wary about giving money to anybody claiming to have secret or arcane knowledge."

Those are your words, I didn't say I have either secret or arcane knowledge. Also, I completely agree, caveat emptor is a very important principle, but hopefully people who are interested and have done their research will understand that I am not making any outlandish claims here.

I will also reach out to you privately, since my feeling is that this is largely based on misunderstanding, but I do hope that you will consider retracting this very damaging post.

Thanks,
Rob.

Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality
https://www.amazon.com/Taoist-Yoga-Kuan-Charles-Luk/dp/0877280673

Internal Elixir Cultivation: The Nature of Daoist Meditation
https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Elixir-Cultivation-Nature-Meditation/dp/1943155135/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478006245&sr=1-2&keywords=internal+elixir+cultivation

Healing Light of the Tao: Foundational Practices to Awaken Chi Energy
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594771138/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2P7K1FW99QSDG12HVPZA

Foundations of Internal Alchemy: The Taoist Practice of Neidan
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984308253/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=5KF0N4TFRQQQ4PCVCH6F

The Tao of Meditation: Way to Enlightenment
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804814651/ref=pd_sim_14_25?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=5KF0N4TFRQQQ4PCVCH6F