Articles About Successful Aging:
Your longevity is not necessarily governed by your genes, but by your epigenetic methylation. Here’s a summary of nutrition and lifestyle changes to turn back your biological clock.
Frailty Robs Boomers of Quality of Life – But it is Preventable
Frailty can be a heartache in later life there are natural forces leading to muscle weakness that can definitely be counter acted.
A Fast Way to Increase Lifespan and Healthspan
Periodic fasting triggers autophagy a natural biological process of cell cleaning which can make you healthier and live longer.
3 Anti-Aging Biohacks for Life Extension
Humans have had it too good for too long, we never go hungry, we never go cold, we are mostly sedentary. Unfortunately these luxuries work against us as far as life extension and health extension. But here are 3 simple practices you can adopt today to add years of healthy living to your life.
Stay Youthful by Biohacking Your HGH through Sprinting
HGH or “human growth hormone” is a powerful natural hormone that keeps us youthful and strong. Sadly, it declines rapidly as we age. Although there are supplements to replace it, there are dangers and expenses. Luckily, there is a totally natural way to boost your HGH levels, but you have to get off the couch.
After age 65, age 70 is another interesting milestone. Here is what you could expect. Don’t worry, it’s not all bad.
Simple Habits to Slow Down the Effects of Aging
Simple actions you can take today so keep looking young and stay healthy.
Acclaimed doctor, author, and star of public television shares tips on how you can stay young, healthy and attractive.
Articles About Women’s Health:
Exercise and All That Jazz — Judi Sheppard Misset Going Strong at Age 80
She started Jazzercise 55 years ago and she and her company are still going strong. Read the full original interview.
The Exercise Results that Women Want
Women are bombarded with what their ideal body should look like and the multitude ways to achieve it, but most of are dead wrong. Fitness and health guru, Paul Chek, outlines the best exercise protocols that are specific to women’s bodies and health.
But I’m a Woman, I Can’t be Having a Heart Attack
Quick, can you recognize the symptoms of a heart attack in a woman? Heart disease kills seven times more women than does breast cancer. Here’s a program of lifestyle, exercise and nutrition to minimize the chances of heart disease.
A Guide to Preventing Heart Attacks in Women
Women are different than men. Heart attacks are also a big killer of women, but their symptoms are different. Here are ways for women to reduce the chances of a heart attack.
An Interview with Dr. Miriam Nelson on Women’s Strength, Nutrition and Successful Aging
This highly acclaimed researcher and author shares her views on how women can stay strong and healthy as they age successfully.
Articles About General Health:
Live and Eat Like a Hunter-Gatherer for Optimal Health
We need to understand how our bodies evolved over 3.8 billion years of evolution. In the last 100+ years our intelligence had decreased mortality but increased morbidity. If we can alter our diet and lifestyle slightly to mimic that of our hunter-gatherers forbearers we can reduce age related diseases.
Sugar – The Worst Discovery for Our Health
We humans never evolved to consume up to 100 lbs. of sugar per year. Our forbearers barely ate any sweeteners at all, definitely no manufactured sweeteners. This is a major contributor to our health crisis. Tips on how to kick the habit.
Natural Ways to Control Hypertension
You’re doing everything right to control your hypertension: exercise, diet, sleep, but there is one natural ingredient that you probably have not tried and it can do wonders to lower blood pressure.
Not Cholesterol But Cholesterol Oxidation Is the Culprit
The direct link between cholesterol and heart disease is somewhat controversial, but there are natural remedies to raise the good cholesterol and lower the bad.
Alternatives to Statin Drugs to Lower Cholesterol
Yes, high cholesterol is a concern but before resorting to pharmaceutical drugs which may have strong side effects, there are calmer more natural remedies.
Sunshine for Vitamin D, Immunity, and Overall Good Health
Sunlight is not a villain. We need its exposure on our skin on a regular basis for optimal health. People residing in nothern regions are most likely vitamin D deficient during winter. Here is what you can do.
You’re Really Not Healthy Unless You Also Have a Healthy Gut — Here’s How
We have about 100 trillion freeloaders riding in our bodies they’re called our microbiome. When they’re well fed and happy, they help to keep us healthy, if they’re starving, they cause havoc. He’re a crash course in microbiome health.
HGH — A Natural Cure for Boomer Belly and Reversal of Somatopause
Somatopause is brought on by aging — sorry, it is signified by energy decline, weight-gain (usually around the middle, and hips), loss of muscle, and wrinkled skin. Other symptoms include energy decline, a rise in LDL cholesterol and a lowering of the good HDL.
The affects of somatopause can be offset by exercises and lifestyle changes that increase the body’s natural production of HGH. Find out how.
Periodic fasting is harmless, free and has many health benefits, most notably helping you to grow more brain cells. Oh, and by the way, you lose weight too and keep it off.
Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally with the Simple DASH Diet
High blood pressure is a mortality risk factor and should not be taken lightly. If your blood pressure is starting to creep up as you age, here is a dietary change that can help to lower it before you need a prescription.
Natural Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol
As you age, cholesterol creeps up. Before you succumb to a statin prescription for the rest of your life with unknown long term consequences, educate yourself to some simple exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle changes to help bring your cholesterol down without drugs.
Articles About Mental and Brain Health:
Nine Simple Steps to Prevent Cognitive Decline at Any Age
We all fear dementia in our later years, here are steps you can take at any age to stave it off.
Four Achievable Actions to Stave Off Alzheimer’s
Most people have a big concern about contracting Alzheimer’s in their later years, and with a 50% probability at age 85 it’s a viable concern. But here are 4 strategies you can adopt today to minimize that probability, or at least ameliorate the effects.
Natural Ways to Combat Depression
Depression is insidious, it robs us of the joy of life. Yes, there are effective drugs, but before going there, why not learn of some natural ways to get your depression under control without drugs.
Articles About Retirement:
Do You Need Life Insurance After Retirement?
At the late stages of life, you may be more financially secure and have assets, so is there even a need to carry life insurance for your survivors? Here are some important considerations.
Finding Happiness in Retirement
There are many variations to how to live retirement and a plethora of questions to ask. Surprisingly lots of money doesn’t bring retirement happiness.
Going Bare in Old Age (Life Insurance) Is It Risky
Yes, there can be conditions where you do not need life insurance in your later years, here are some facets you may have not thought of.
Three Periods of Retirement You Must Prepare for Differently
Retirement is not one homogenous period from work stoppage to death. There are actually 3 periods a retiree goes through each with different outlooks. , behaviors and financial effects.
Flipping the Switch — When to Start Spending Your Retirement Savings — Guilt Free
Retirement is a pivot point. Switching from a lifetime of saving suddenly to spending. The question is how much of your savings can you spend and when. Find out how.
How Coronavirus Has Changed Retirement
Retirement, as you envisioned it, may never be the same again. Should you be concerned? You betcha. Find out why.
New Year’s Resolutions for Boomers
After working a long career at a furious pace, setting goals and achieving them, should seniors even bother with a new year’s resolution and a list of goals? Here’s a discussion on the merits of goal setting in latter years.
Articles About Finance
You Can Still Build Wealth After You Are Retired
Just because you’re retired doesn’t mean you tap the brakes and not allow your retirement savings to grow. Yes, you have to be more conservative so you don’t outlive your money, but there are safe ways for it to grow at a moderate rate, find out how.
Entering Your Golden Years? Managing your IRA disbursement can be Tricky
We know what date we were born, but we don’t know what our expiration date will be. It poses a challenge of how rapid a rate do we spend our IRA savings. We don’t want to leave too much on table, but worse, we don’t want to outlive our money. Worse yet, have you planned for the expensive end-of-life nursing home care? It can break the bank.
Don’t Outlive your Money in Retirement
The biggest risk today is not so much as dying early, but of not dying until much later in life. You need to assure you have enough savings for both yourself and you surviving spouse in those final months when it could be extremely expensive.
The Paradox of Semi-Retirement
People somehow retiring is like arriving to the “promised land”, but it’s not always so, there are inherent financial risks. Here’s an interesting concept to remove the financial stress and enjoy those very same things you aspired to in your later years.
When to Start Taking Social Security Payments – It’s not When you Think
A big mistake most retirees make is to rush into taking social security withdrawals just as soon as they turn 62 and can. In more cases than not this is a big financial mistake.
Annuities: Are They the Best Choice for Your Retirement?
Annuities come in various flavors, there are also some land mines you should be aware of; we’ll help you to sort them out.
Articles About Fitness:
It’s amazing how many different modes of fitness there are, but fitness as we know it today, has not been around that long, our great grandparents never heard of it. Follow the birth and evolution of fitness from Joseph Pilates to Jack LaLanne to Pumping Iron to Mind/Body and CrossFit.
Physical Flexibility and Anti-Aging
O.K., as you age, your stamina will decline, and you’ll no longer have the totally buff body, it’s just naturally atrophy. But there is one area that you can control more than the others that will maintain your fluid graceful movements and move young.
Does Strength Training Affect Blood Pressure?
Are you afraid to really push yourself in the weight room for concern of popping your blood pressure? There is some concern, but learn from expert, Dr. Wayne Westcott, as to the way to exercise heavily without raising your blood pressure.
The Lotte Berk Method Rediscovered
Barre classes are all the rage globally, but did you know it all began in London by an eccentric former Russian dancer who designed an exercise protocol to recover from a severe back injury. Her star student, Lydia Bach, brought the rights to the method to New York and totally refined it to become the Lotte Berk Method. All the barre classes are copycats, read the story of the original.
Articles About Nutrition:
After oxygen, water is the most important in sustaining human life. Proper hydration can optimize health.
Fitness and Health guru, Paul Chek, explains foods to avoid and why if you want optimal health and the hazards of food labeling.
Articles About Peak Performance:
Throughout your working years, you were taught about “time management”, but that turns out to be wrong. It’s all about “energy management”. Time is finite, energy is not. Energy can be expanded to accomplish more and greater things. From the author of the famous book “The Power of Full Engagement”.
Easy Reading for Entertainment:
With Jet travel total strangers penetrate our normal protective zones. In coach we’re so close we actually rub elbows. Most of us want to remain isolated but, every once in a while that unlikely stranger sitting next to us can flip our world…