Recent articles about 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. In other words, lifespan (chronological age) has increased but healthspan (how well you live, […]
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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 […]
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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 and typically full of […]
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Flyfishing and the biology of aging. Most of us are less comfortable with biology and more comfortable with the term aging—a concept and mental construct we use to describe changes that occur over a lifespan. There is the fixed chronological age where you add a number to your age at your birthday each year. Then […]
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