It’s not pie-in-the-sky, it’s possible! The kind but firm older gentleman who threw my doughball into the dumpster and tied on my first fly was 85-years-old. He waded the aptly-named Slippery Rock Creek like a 30-year-old. I asked him what his secret was and he said, “when you get older, things happen........
This is a brief personal essay, how I beat aging. It's not perfect, disease still showed up. But I am living proof that you can change the trajectory of your biology, your aging. The research is animated and comes to life with my efforts. The key takeaway is that.....
Flyfishing demands a high level of stamina, power and coordination. Too often we develop enough wisdom and skill to be masterful or just when we have the time to fish longer and harder, our health wanes and we begin to deteriorate. We are here to help you re-think aging, to enjoy the aging process..... Innovating our way to more..........
Flyfishing demands a high level of stamina, power and coordination. Too often we develop enough wisdom and skill to be masterful or just when we have the time to fish longer and harder, our health wanes and we begin to deteriorate. We are here to help you re-think aging, to offer a new perspective on the process of aging. Aging better by thinking, learning, growing and and innovating just as we do for our flyfishing......
What’s you plan? We can coast when we’re younger because we have youth on our side. But after 50, the best strategy is to have a plan. If you coast without a plan the relentless pull of aging will dominate. This is not good.....
It is possible to age well. Your later decades can be full of vigorous living and free of suffering. We have a lot of power and influence on how we age but there are some aging processes where we have no say. Fortunately, these are mild (gray hair and wrinkles) not life-sustaining mechanisms.......
There is natural medicine hidden in plain sight. Remember, all medical interventions effect other organ systems, sometimes to great lengths. Living better, quality of life through prevention of disease will not come from medicine. Hint, you cannot buy, synthesize or prescribe the most potent preventive medicine available to man.......
The widening gap between lifespan and healthspan have increased the already palpable fear of aging. Some of them hit the mark saying that the medical industry has given us more years but they are not necessarily good years. Lining longer without quality of life is misery........
The evidence that Exercise is Organic Medicine will change your flyfishing life is overwhelming, but sometimes it's not enough to get us moving. It's truth secondhand. We read about the experiences of others, and it's like watching TV, entertaining and inspiring but fleeting. But when you learn firsthand that exercise is organic medicine that builds more than metabolism and muscle, it becomes transformational.........
Many people who are getting older are stuck in their head. They have felt the stiffening muscles, the reduced energy and waning drive. Their mind has been made up; this is it. In fact, Kenny Loggins wrote the song, This Is It about the same situation. His father, a life-long athlete.........
