Retirement, the First Law of Physics, and the Iron Oxide Risk

  Isaac Newton was a great physicist.  Maybe not by today’s standards, but he helped us move forward with some pretty big leaps back in his day.  Like (1) deciphering gravity; (2) inventing calculus; (3) building the telescope. He also introduced the “First Law of Physics”. This law is sometimes referred to as the law of inertia […]

Be Part of the “Modern Elder” Movement

Photo by Esther Ann on Unsplash A couple of years ago, while one with my now-deceased iPod Classic during a workout,  I listened to a very stimulating podcast interview with Chip Conley, who, at the time, was a few years into an executive management position with Airbnb. His is a very intriguing story of how he came into […]

Alzheimer’s Disease and What We Eat

It’s two weeks since attending the funeral service for a dear friend whose battle with Alzheimer’s ended as her body gave in to the complications from the disease. Our friend Judy’s Alzheimer’s experience was the first with this disease for my wife and me.  We shouldn’t be surprised by that since statistically the disease only […]

Extend Your Healthy Longevity – Twelve Things That May Be Accelerating Your Aging – Part Three of a Three-part Series.

It’s been a challenge selecting four more topics to wrap up this three-part series on age accelerators to avoid.  Not because there is a scarcity of accelerators but rather having so many possible topics to bring forth. So here’s my final selection of age accelerators to avoid – I hope you find these last four […]

Extend Your Healthy Longevity – Twelve Things That May Be Accelerating Your Aging – Part Two of a Three-part Series.

Thanks for your feedback on the first article in this three-part series.  A special thanks to loyal reader, Roger Knisely, for suggesting that I “flip the script”.  So I’ve changed the headline and will try to put a more positive spin on the next eight items over the next two weeks. Here are four more […]

Extend Your Healthy Longevity – Twelve Things That May Be Accelerating Your Aging – A Three-part Series.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay “Life is a fatal disease. Once contracted, there is no known cure.” This is a quote from Dr. Walter Bortz, one of my favorite authorities on maintaining good health in our third age.  Dr. Bortz is an 89-year old former Stanford University geriatric physician and author of seven books, my favorites being […]