Category: Art of Aging

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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What We Can Learn From Robert Redford

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

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

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

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

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

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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