Please Tell Me You Didn’t Do New Year’s Resolutions Again!

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels OK, I’m betting they may not be on paper, but you plan to: Lose weight Eat better Exercise more Watch less TV Spend more time with family Read more Go to church regularly Get more sleep Take up a hobby Quit smoking Volunteer more Drop Facebook In other words, become a New […]

Asking Your Forgiveness – I’ve Been Helping You Die Early.

Alexas_Fotos on Pixabay I was mad last week. I was only 1/3 through Dr. Robert Lustig’s book, “Metabolical”, at the time. Now I’m 7/8 through. I’m madder – with a permanent state of mad. I’ve also discovered I owe you, dear reader, an apology. I’ve misled you with some of my writing. If you’ve tracked […]

News Flash! David Isn’t Coming to Save Us! Don’t Get Caught Waiting.

David Sinclair is an interesting and pretty high-profile guy recently in the burgeoning conversation on aging. As an Australian-born Ph.D. in molecular genetics and a tenured professor at Harvard Medical School, Sinclair comes down squarely on aging as a disease that we will eventually be able to overcome. He’s apparently moved the needle a bit […]

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from Makeagingwork.com Thanks for being a reader and for your support and feedback over the last 4 1/2 years. Our very best to you and yours for this holiday season. Stay safe. Stay well. See you in 2022!

What Should You Expect When You Turn 60 Years Old?

Photo by Tim Cooper on Unsplash I recently answered this question for an obvious younger whippersnapper on Quora.com. What Should You Expect When You Turn 60 Years Old? With the 20th anniversary of that age within view for me, I had a few thoughts I’ve accumulated over those two decades. I hope you won’t expect much more than […]

Must life go downhill as we age, or do we have a choice?

Yes, life does go downhill, but – -we have some choices in the matter. Not with the eventuality of it, but with the starting point and the pace. The reality is, we took out a death certificate at birth. Or, as retired Stanford geriatric physician, Dr. Walter Bortz once wrote: “Life is a fatal disease. Once […]