Nuggets for Healthy Living by Dr Deji Daramola highlights the importance of knowing the little everyday things can cumulatively result in a healthy and hopefully long and happy life. The topics in this audiobook touch on preventative medicine, medicine, psychiatry, surgery, pediatrics, gynecology, human physiology, and psychology; as well as correcting misconceptions about how diagnoses are arrived at especially from the doctor’s perspective. These topics are interwoven into everyday stories with a view to empower you to take control of your health.

In today’s world, with advances in medicine like never before, our aim should be to live a healthy life with little decline in health until we pass on. Our objective should be to age well so we can push the decline to 80 and beyond and subsequently embrace death without the known liabilities that accompany bad aging. This audiobook is intended to guide in that direction.

Aging is not homogenous. Basically, we will all not age the same way. It is also a known fact that different categories of people display different patterns of aging. At about the age of 45, we start to decline slowly health-wise, but some don't and these people continue to age with no issues. This is called successful aging, and successful aging has been defined as optimal physical, mental, and social well-being in older age. There are two models of aging. The mandatory cellular aging that we have no control over and the facultative cellular aging that we can control. The emphasis here is on the facultative cellular aging model. Successful aging tends to depend on one’s behavior, a positive attitude to life and lastly on the environment rather than genetics. Research has concluded that people with a positive disposition tend to age well. Let us address the issue of positive attitude for a minute. I have heard it said many times that life is all about attitudes. Attitudes affect our behavior, but it is also correct to say that behavior affects our attitude.