Category: Art of Aging

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, 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 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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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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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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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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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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Legendary on film and just as legendary for conservation and preservation, Redford 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. Considering the brief time we have, what matters more—the news channel you watch, or Nature, quality of life, your health, functionality, and how you are maneuvering the aging process?

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