It's what the doctor orders

DR David Agus doesn’t sit while talking to me on the phone from his California-based office. “I’m walking around with headphones as we talk,” says Agus, professor of medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine and author of a new book, The End of Illness.

“I make my day a movement day. I have meetings while I walk. I exercise. I do yoga every morning,” he says. He also takes a daily aspirin and statin (cholesterol-lowering drug) and he eats his meals, and goes to bed, at regular times.

For Agus, these daily habits are part of his arsenal against getting cancer and other diseases.