Embrace wellness and longevity practices to enhance your health, prevent disease, and enjoy a long, vibrant life with intentional habits.
For a long time, I treated actual living like something scheduled for later. Later when the schedule eased up. Later when there was more room. Later when the kids were settled and the mortgage smaller and life became slightly less demanding than it currently was. Then Tom had both hips replaced in 2020, and we … Read more
I didn’t lift weights until I was in my early 50s. Not really. I’d done cardio on and off. I’d walked. I’d done yoga a few times. But actual strength training — picking up weights, building muscle deliberately — that wasn’t part of my life until five years ago. I didn’t know what I was … Read more
There’s a version of healthy aging that’s mostly about subtraction. Less sugar. Less sitting. Less of whatever you were doing before. The advice tends to arrive as a list of things to stop, alongside a list of habits you should have started ten years ago. That isn’t the part that interests me most anymore. I … Read more
Eating differently gets much easier when you stop deciding what to eat three times a day. That’s one reason I like having a handful of simple meals I can repeat. Eggs. Chicken. Beef. Fish. Vegetables. A few basic ingredients that can become several different meals without requiring a complicated recipe every night. If you’re trying … Read more