Category: Art of Aging

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 does not merely survive. The bowhead whale 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.

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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 Art of Aging is the artistic practice of aging well. THE LIE Surreptitiously and systematically—through comfort, convenience, and the deceitful promise that coasting is the good life, we are comforted and distracted away from reality. No need for awareness, attention or effort; someone else will take care of your decline or fix what breaks. […]

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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.

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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. […]

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Aging Lifestyle

Aging lifestyle, what is it—and more importantly, is it necessary? Well, look around at airports, restaurants, church, the trail, the stream. What do you see? Aging Lifestyle We Need to Age Better Are most people aging with strength, vigor, and grace, wearing their gray hair as a crown? Could humanity be aging better? Aging Lifestyle […]

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Supplements Good Bad and Ugly

Supplements Good Bad and Ugly
Supplements Good Bad and Ugly. It’s tough to get everything you need from food alone. Even if you buy organic, your blueberries probably came frozen from Chile, and your kale traveled farther than you did last summer. Supplements can help. But here’s the catch: they’re supposed to supplement your diet—not replace it. The Good People […]

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What We Can Learn From Robert Redford

What We Can Learn From Robert Redford
What we can learn from Robert Redford. He was legendary on film and just as legendary for conservation and preservation. He believed deeply that open space and Nature are inseparable from quality of life. He once said he would not have made it in Hollywood without easy access to Wilderness. As if the competitive life […]

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