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How I Know That I Will Live to 112 1/2. No – It’s Not the Broccoli!

Image by 185128 from Pixabay Such good news. Isn’t it incredible? So much helpful news proliferating online with newly discovered answers to long-standing mysteries about our bodies and our health? Like the significance of standing on one foot. Seriously, who woulda thunk it? Your ability to stand on one foot may be a predictor of how long […]

Are You Flying a “Freak Flag?” If Not, Give It Some Serious Consideration.

If you’re over 60 and aren’t weird, you need to get there. No, not that type of weird. Weird in a “modern elder” way. Chip Conley of Modern Elder Academy blogs daily at wisdomwell@modernelderacademy.com and rocks my brain at least 2 to 3 times per week with something out on the edge. He did it […]

Does life really get harder as you get older? It gets down to choices. Here are four simple ones.

It’s a question we’ll face at some point on our journey. It’s really about the choices we make as we age. Life can be harder or easier based on those choices I recently experienced the 20th anniversary of my 60 birthday. Hard to believe that I’ve gotten this far. I haven’t had a dramatic life […]

What If We Had Never Invented Retirement? Would Our Culture Be Better Off? Three Suggestions That Say “Yes.”

You do know that retirement is invented and not natural, right? We appear to be the only species that decides to voluntarily push ourselves toward a state of accelerating physical and mental decline and deterioration. As opposed to the natural world, where it’s involuntary and usually abrupt – as in dead. The silver maple in […]

Want To Max Out Your Longevity and Do It In Good Health? Good Luck – You’re On Your Own!

  Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Let me whip this dead horse again. Our healthcare system isn’t. It’s a disease-care system. And there’s little chance it will ever do much more than dispense medical advice and fix the downstream problems without bothering to look upstream. Or, as I’ve said before, it’s a system well trained in mopping […]