Tag Archive: Biology
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, stirring your endowed biology toward healing. But as we age, our biology dulls. The processes that keep […]
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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. Three Forces That Push Back on Aging Researchers are now calling aging a disease. The details […]
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The right amount of exercise always comes up. 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? How about looking at this from another angle? A […]
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Society is wrong about aging. Jokes, negativity and stories on how bad aging is are the norm. I lived in Florida. I got the message. The reality is aging is a biological process that is shaped and influenced by society; people who know nothing about biology. Everyone I know keeps their distance from all […]
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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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