Category: Art of Aging

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.

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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. […]

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Aging lifestyle, what is it—and more importantly, is it necessary? Well, look around at airports, restaurants, church, the trail, the stream. What do you see? Aging Lifestyle We Need to Age Better Are most people aging with strength, vigor, and grace, wearing their gray hair as a crown? Could humanity be aging better? Aging Lifestyle […]

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Supplements Good Bad and Ugly. It’s tough to get everything you need from food alone. Even if you buy organic, your blueberries probably came frozen from Chile, and your kale traveled farther than you did last summer. Supplements can help. But here’s the catch: they’re supposed to supplement your diet—not replace it. The Good People […]

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What we can learn from Robert Redford. He was legendary on film and just as legendary for conservation and preservation. He 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. As if the competitive life […]

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Update Your Lifestyle. It is a wonderful time to be alive. 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. We […]

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Click play to listen to Don’t Follow the Crowd. Don’t follow the crowd is easy to say, harder to do. It’s engrained. We look for the number of cars in the parking lot of a restaurant as validity to quality. Best-seller lists point us toward purchases. In some cases, we act as individuals, but most […]

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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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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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