Category: Art of Aging

Tips For Aging Anglers

Tips For Aging Anglers
We all get older. It’s the long-term quality of life as we age that dictates our experience. Better quality of life with age means the ability to what we love regardless of age. In our case it’s fly fishing with vigor for longer. Purpose: If your line is not in the water, you have zero […]

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Three Forces That Push Back on Aging

Click play to listen to Three Forces That Push Back on Aging Imagine a tree The trunk is biological aging. The branches represent the hallmarks of aging, those biological processes that dull with age. The hallmarks are not separate or individual problems. They all stem from the same tree trunk, aging.  Researchers are now calling […]

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One Thing to Fight Aging

One Thing to Fight Aging
The one thing to fight aging…. It should be at the top of your priorities!!! Functional medicine tells us that many ‘diseases of aging’ have the same root cause and addressing the root cause halts further progression and helps reverse course. Our responsibility for aging well is attending to major root causes. Not through prescriptions […]

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The Right Amount of Exercise

The Right Amount of Exercise
The right amount of exercise always comes up. A recent study suggests that running 50 minutes per week can lower your risk of premature death from all causes. That’s good to read, but not everyone wants to run. Some people can’t run. What are the equivalents? How about looking at this from another angle? A […]

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Build a Physical Activity Habit

Exercise isn't urgent until it is.
  Build a Physical Activity Habit. It’s the most important thing you can do in the mature phase of your life. This is the time to use the wisdom you have amassed to do the most good. Kids want to go fishing with their parents and grandparents. Every youngster needs a fishing mentor.  You have […]

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You are Responsible for Fitness

You are Responsible for Fitness
You are responsible for fitness. The fly fishers I talk to (most over 40) tell me about their chronic pain, weight gain, back pain, ‘tennis elbow,’ shoulder issues, hand cramps, reduced stamina, and balance. They all have ideas and opinions why these conditions occur, but few look at or mention the obvious facts, probably because, […]

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Prevention is the Best Medicine

Prevention is the best medicine and exercise is the best option for preventing decline. This is how we override the gravitational pull of aging and reduce the progression and severity of chronic disease. The mainstream approach, doctor visits and medicine can’t compare. Leave the Herd–Prevention is the Best Medicine  Synthetic medicines and surgery will treat […]

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Prepare for Flyfishing Season

A Fly Fisher Dream
As you prepare for flyfishing season you’re thinking, true north, otherworldly; a place where time stands still, stress evaporates, nirvana. That’s how you imagine it from afar. The actual concrete version involves reality--wading in cold hazardous water can make flyfishing a stress generator, especially if you’re out of shape. You’re geared up but are you [...]

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12 Reasons Fly Fishers Need to Exercise Now

12 Reasons to Exercise Now
Here are (12 Reasons Fly Fishers Need to Exercise Now) some highlights of what is not taught in school or anywhere else. You cannot buy, synthesize or prescribe the most potent preventive medicine available to man. How you use exercise to improve your fly-fishing is also crucial to your life….The Art in your Aging.   Reasons […]

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Retirement a Flyfishing Rebirth

Retirement a Flyfishing Rebirth
Make retirement a flyfishing rebirth. It’s a big shift for some, impossible dream for others but, It doesn’t have to be that way. Give it some thought. What is easy to grab, the low-hanging fruit? Take a walk, watch the sunrise, contemplate and think. After you return, take time to read this post. It’s alarming […]

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