Three Forces That Push Back on Aging. Researchers are now calling aging a disease. The details are, it’s a single disease; what begins as an unnoticeable (microscopic) decline in bodily processes and systems expands and cascades downstream, growing into chronic diseases. Older adult chronic disease is a consequence of involuntary age-related decline resulting from this […]
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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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