Healthy Aging

Are you celebrating? It’s National Women’s Blood Pressure Awareness Week and to mark the occasion, we want to underscore how important it is for you to be aware of your blood pressure and take appropriate actions to keep your pressure in check and under control. As we highlighted in the…

No doubt you know the benefits of eating a healthy diet by now. We’ve sung the praises of the Mediterranean diet on numerous occasions, as a way to help maintain your heart health, tamp down inflammation and even allow you to live a longer, healthier life. But what about your…

It’s probably no surprise to read that yoga is considered an excellent way to help both your mind and body age in a healthy way. With its emphasis on deliberate physical poses and movement, accompanied by a focus on breathing and mindfulness, yoga is considered a valuable way to strengthen…

While it’s true that we do not really have prescription drugs or therapeutics to effectively prevent or slow down dementia, it’s not true that there’s nothing you can do if you’re at risk of cognitive impairment. In many ways, there are effective and practical tools for preventing or slowing cognitive…

No matter your age, for most of us September signals the return to school. And while school routines and in-person education have been severely hampered due to COVID, everyone seems to understand the importance of learning and the need to do everything possible to keep students in the classroom. And…

No doubt you’ve heard the old adage, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” While that’s not literally true, there’s solid science behind the concept that the food you eat, and the nutrients that make up that food, can have a profound effect on how your body ages and…