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  The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age  by Gladys McGarey (2023) is a self-care health book for people of any age.   The title says it all. Dr Gladys McGarey, at 102 years of age, writes words of wisdom. Gladys, co-founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, was still a practicing holistic physician when she wrote this book. She says that this book is “a story that teaches as much as it inspires.” When subscribing to her Foundation for Living Medicine newsletter, readers become part of the “BeGlad Family.”   Gladys Louise Taylor, born in November 1920 in India, travelled to America at the age of 16 to study, where she met and married Bill McGarey. While doing her residency degree at the Women’s Medical College, she was the only female resident in the hospital in 1946, while she was pregnant with her first child, but she had no living quarters – and therefore, no bedroom – so she slept on the examining table.    After a