Image by Couleur from Pixabay I hope you don’t think I have a big-word fetish. Last week I dumped a doozy on you with “oligodencrocytes.” Judging from the positive response and zero unsubscribes from last week, I’m sensing you have a tolerance level for an occasional esoteric linguistic trip. Assuming so, let’s go on another one. This time,… Continue reading Aristotle and Your “Curve of Happiness”
Category: Health and Wellness
WARNING! Retirement May Mess With Your Oligodencrocytes!
Oligo what? Hey, I didn’t know we had them, did you? Yet another something in the “cytes” category roaming around our bodies. I found out I had oligodencrocytes as I was slogging through my second reading of a challenging book entitled “Deep Work; Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” by Georgetown University computer… Continue reading WARNING! Retirement May Mess With Your Oligodencrocytes!
Can We Become Age-agnostic? Do Your Part – Be a “Perennial”.
Image by Mabel Amber from Pixabay The deeper I get sucked into this vortex of dialog about aging – older vs elder, saging versus aging, retirement versus rewirement, etc., etc., ad nauseum – the more I sense that we are creeping to the edge of an age-agnostic era. What does that mean? It means that instead of our… Continue reading Can We Become Age-agnostic? Do Your Part – Be a “Perennial”.
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… Continue reading Alzheimer’s Disease and What We Eat
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… Continue reading Extend Your Healthy Longevity – Twelve Things That May Be Accelerating Your Aging – Part Three of a Three-part Series.
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… Continue reading Extend Your Healthy Longevity – Twelve Things That May Be Accelerating Your Aging – Part Two of a Three-part Series.
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… Continue reading Extend Your Healthy Longevity – Twelve Things That May Be Accelerating Your Aging – A Three-part Series.
Health alert: Get to Know Your PCP!
How well do you know your primary care physician (PCP)? Have you been with him/her for a long or a short time? How old do you think s/he is? How long in his/her practice? These aren’t questions we’re inclined to spend time thinking about. Maybe we, as third agers, should be more attentive to this… Continue reading Health alert: Get to Know Your PCP!
Does Your Favorite Presidential Candidate Have a Food Platform?
Hold on – I’m not going all political on you. I’m in the same place you are – dumbfounded by how far off the tracks we’ve gone in government leadership and common sense. That’s stuff for another article – somebody else’s article because I’m not writing it. But a New York Times piece entitled… Continue reading Does Your Favorite Presidential Candidate Have a Food Platform?
One Woman’s Quest to Restore Good Nutrition
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, said: “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.” That quote was shared with me by Susan Buckley, Registered Dietitian and the Nutrition Manager at South Denver Cardiology, one of Denver’s premier cardiac… Continue reading One Woman’s Quest to Restore Good Nutrition