Category: Art of Aging

Climbing Higher

It takes years of mistakes to climb higher—lessons in the making—staying strong and committed in discomfort, trusting that the protracted process is working in your favor. Trouble is, building the necessary layers of insight and understanding that help us master life requires uncommon durability and longevity.

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Your Body Is An Ecosystem

My work as a wildlife biologist centered on habitat—evaluating and, when necessary, restoring wetlands, estuaries, salt marshes, forests, and prairies to ensure their health and integrity. The health of each habitat contributes upward to the overall wellness of the larger ecosystem: the entire community of living things. Your body is an ecosystem. The “habitats” that contribute to your personal biological ecosystem include your muscles, tendons, organs, nervous system, gut, and many others.

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Engineered for Longevity

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.

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Food Is Making You Sick

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.

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The Art of Aging Interview

Art of Aging Interview
The Art of Aging Interview, Ask Brian Your philosophy is we can and must age better. Why? What’s wrong with where we are?   The problem seems too big—almost unwieldy. What can be done?   Where does the average person begin? We could be aging better with only small adjustments and adaptations. . Find what […]

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The Art of Aging

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?

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Better as You Age

A Fly Fisher Dream
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.

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Inspired New Year

Inspired New Year
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………

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Aging Lifestyle

An aging lifestyle is the shift in living like you did in your 20s, 30s and 40s to setting new priorities. You realize that things are changing and you begin making plans to adapt and thrive in your later decades. You become focused on longevity. Not just living longer but living with vigor. The first step is recognizing what is going on in your body. Becoming intimately aware of what aging feels like, the warning signs Nature sends you. Building muscle is not for looks, vanity or the beach……… 

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Supplements Good Bad and Ugly

Supplements Good Bad and Ugly
Buyer beware….Prevagen, the jellyfish protein pill that promises sharper memory. The FTC and New York’s attorney general called it out for making bogus claims. Quincy Bioscience, the company behind it, settled a lawsuit in 2020. Did they quit aggressively marketing it? Nope. They slapped on a confusing disclaimer about “subgroups of individuals” and kept rolling. Consumers lost. The company won.

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