Category: Art of Aging

Getting Older Does Not Mean Coasting

Getting Older Does Not Mean Coasting
What’s you plan? We can coast when we’re younger because we have youth on our side. But after 50, the best strategy is to have a plan. If you coast without a plan the relentless pull of aging will dominate. This is not good…..

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It Is Possible To Age Well

It is Possible to Age Well
It is possible to age well. Your later decades can be full of vigorous living and free of suffering. We have a lot of power and influence on how we age but there are some aging processes where we have no say. Fortunately, these are mild (gray hair and wrinkles) not life-sustaining mechanisms…….

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Natural Medicine Hidden in Plain Sight

Natural Medicine Hidden in Plain Sight
There is natural medicine hidden in plain sight. Remember, all medical interventions effect other organ systems, sometimes to great lengths. Living better, quality of life through prevention of disease will not come from medicine. Hint, you cannot buy, synthesize or prescribe the most potent preventive medicine available to man…….

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The Gap Between Lifespan and Healthspan

The Gap Between Lifespan and Healthspan
The widening gap between lifespan and healthspan have increased the already palpable fear of aging. Some of them hit the mark saying that the medical industry has given us more years but they are not necessarily good years. Lining longer without quality of life is misery……..

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Exercise is Organic Medicine

Exercise is Organic Medicine
The evidence that Exercise is Organic Medicine will change your flyfishing life is overwhelming, but sometimes it’s not enough to get us moving. It’s truth secondhand. We read about the experiences of others, and it’s like watching TV, entertaining and inspiring but fleeting. But when you learn firsthand that exercise is organic medicine that builds more than metabolism and muscle, it becomes transformational………

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Is Getting Older All in Your Mind?

Is Getting Older All in Your Mind?
Many people who are getting older are stuck in their head. They have felt the stiffening muscles, the reduced energy and waning drive. Their mind has been made up; this is it. In fact, Kenny Loggins wrote the song, This Is It about the same situation. His father, a life-long athlete………

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The Biology of Aging

Flyfishing & The Biology of Aging
Most of us are more comfortable with the word aging than with the word biology. Aging is deeper than any mirror can reach — in that topic we all avoided—every biology class we ever sat through……

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