Category: Art of Aging

What We Can Learn From Robert Redford

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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Update Your Lifestyle

All the cushiness and comfort—we are so far ahead of survival mode—all at our fingertips. And if you feel stuck, just click on the encyclopedic, overwhelming amount of helpful, life-guiding information. Despite our progress, we find ourselves in crisis—overweight, unhealthy, dissatisfied and frayed. You are in control……….

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Don’t Follow the Crowd

Not following the crowd may mean more effort……“Any human being who does not wish to be part of the masses need only stop making things easy for himself.” Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900). Every workout doesn’t have to be to the max. Whatever you do will move the needle in the growth direction. That’s the power you hold…….

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Fast Fitness Facts

The human body has a remarkable ability to heal itself. You slice open your knee, an Urgent Care angel stitches it up. The healing part is invisible. Unknowable forces of Nature course through your body, steering your endowed biology toward healing. But as we age, our biology dulls. Healing slows. The processes that keep us strong, vigorous, spry, resilient and vital diminish. Immune functions, biological healing, rebuilding and recycling (of senescent cells) becomes less robust with age. But you have agency over how you age………

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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. You are in the right place. Read on…….

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Three Forces That Push Back on Aging

As the population of older adults predictably increases, those living with one chronic disease are expected to increase even more!!! The journal Frontiers in Public Health reported in 2023, “The number of people in the United States aged 50 years and older with chronic conditions will will increase to 99.5% by 2050.” How to insure you are not part of that increase!

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One Thing to Fight Aging

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 or ubiquitous pain relievers—these ‘fixes’ only suppress the symptoms. To reduce our risk of over 100 different age-related diseases…….

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The Right Amount of Exercise

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? Looking at this another way, sitting 12 or more hours a day is too much and has a 38% higher risk of death than those who sat 8 hours a day………

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Build a Physical Activity Habit

Inactivity is what is making your muscles hurt, making them stiff and inflexible. That didn’t happen until you got older and your muscles started going downhill. You can stop and even reverse that downhill slide…… One thing, effort! When you engage more, you influence your aging trajectory.

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You are Responsible for Fitness

Chronic pain, weight gain, back pain, ‘tennis elbow,’ shoulder issues, hand cramps, reduced stamina, and balance. We all have ideas and opinions why these conditions occur, but few of us look at or mention the obvious facts, probably because, the obvious facts require effort. You are responsible here, no one else!

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