The longevity I am working toward is performance longevity. I don’t want to just live, being ejected out of a power recliner chair. I want to be hiking, climbing and fly-fishing in remote, roadless Wilderness Areas. What do you want?
In one of the harshest environments on Earth, the bowhead whale does not merely survive. The bowhead is now considered a model of longevity. Its slow metabolism, late maturity, and low reproductive rate reflect a different biological strategy—one that does not rush. It invests in durability. It builds systems that resist disease, adapt to stress, and repair damage over time.
The food industry doesn't care that food is making you sick. Their for-profit conduct echoes tactics once used by the tobacco industry: shaping research narratives, marketing aggressively, and ignoring public health. Overly processed, industrial food is made for shelf life not human life.
The Art of Aging Interview, Ask Brian Your philosophy is we can and must age better. Why? What’s wrong with [...]
The prediction that is fed to us, we will get sicker, more chronic illness is inevitable. But this flawed projection rests on an assumption: that we will remain illiterate about our own biology. That we will stay dependent on a medical system bound by tradition and a for-profit business model. That we will be content to drift, disconnected from the intrinsic power of our bodies, coasting as passengers in our own lives—passive to the incredible force of our human agency.......Will we?
Fly-fishing is physically demanding and there is a clear relationship, yet the connection is often brushed aside, overlooked, or ignored entirely. I know what aging feels like. I’m aging too. It is hard to feel strong, adventurous, resolute, and action-oriented when pain and fatigue begin to narrow your world. But we do not have to accept or acquiesce to decline. Shift to what is possible and.........
It is possible to get better as you age. Transported while fly-fishing for smallmouth bass, after several hours, I looked up only to realize I couldn’t see a single member of my fishing club. Somehow, without noticing, I found myself standing waist-deep in the October waters of the Juniata River, alone. The others were cold, tired and done.....they had given up.
The perfect inspired new year begins with January. The month named for the Roman god Janus, depicted with two faces—one looking ahead toward new beginnings, transitions, and doorways, and the other looking back at endings. The symbolism invites us to use the wisdom of the old year to plan for a new—hopefully even better—year ahead. As we age, ideally, we wise up. With increased clarity, we.........
I’ve always viewed life as a sport—one that rewards attention, extra effort and adaptation. Growing older has shown me that survival is also a sport. Conditions change, margins narrow, and the cost of complacent contentment rises. Serious engagement is required. What worked yesterday may collapse mid-stream today. Preparation only matters if it’s adaptable.
Imagine, it is April and you have been exercising three times a week steadily since December. You ache less when you move. Your blood sugar is lower. Your blood pressure is lower. Not because of diet or deprivation but because muscle is doing what it is designed to do. You've lost a few pounds and now you know it is doable!
