Healthy Aging

Like almost everything else you face as you get older, your immune system becomes a bit slower as you age. Your ability to fight things off weakens, you may acquire an autoimmune disorder (like rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis) or your ability to detect and correct cell defects may decline (which…

Perhaps it’s more important than ever to think about how you get on a path toward healthier aging and a longer healthspan (and maybe even lifespan). One essential component of healthy aging that’s largely within your control? Your diet- what you eat, how much you eat and even when you…

You may remember back in January the Mediterranean Diet was proclaimed the best overall diet for 2020. With its focus on fruits, fish, veggies and olive oil, it’s consistently been touted as one of the best approaches to keeping you healthy as you advance in years. Now, new studies out…

No matter how committed you are to staying healthy as you age, no one is perfect. So we hope we can compensate for our vices in other ways to maintain our health. For example, an estimated ⅔ of us take dietary supplements. We spend $35 billion/year on these pills and…

So maybe you’ve finally found your way to the gym (congratulations!) though you pick up a doughnut on your way home. Or maybe you’ve finally cut out sugar from your diet though you’re still munching on corn chips while binge-watching tv in the evening. In your head, you may know…

There’s no dispute and there should be no discussion: You need to exercise regardless of your age. And yet, you resist. You make excuses. You don’t have the time or energy. You don’t have the equipment or the money for a gym membership. Or maybe you don’t know what you…