Growing Older Living Younger: About longevity, wellness, healthspan,

" Our goal is to 'die healthy ' "  Joe Chang To extend your healthspan and stay youthful and vibrant  as you age, you must affect aging processes where genes operate, at the cellular level.  Dr. Joe Chang discusses the application of gene expression research to changing aging. Gerontology scientist,  S. Jay Olshansky contended that  ' Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, o...

"Survival instinct. that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of tastes decency, politeness, manners, civility. anything, it's such a powerful force" .   (Danny Boyle) W hen out of the blue, you are told you have an incurable cancer with 3 to 6 months to live, what would your survival instinct lead you to do? Dr. Al's  survival instinct told hi...

"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features". ( Primo Levi)    Christine and Brian Phillips, with their daughter, Gwenda, are the developers of the Your Hidden Mind (YHM) system - an online tool...

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live". ( Norman Cousins) Not allowing joy to die within you when you suffer a major loss of a loved one is vital for an optimistic, positive life view. Yet finding joy again can be hard, seemingly impossible. We increasingly experience the death of friends and family as we age. The better we can decrease the...

"When I think about the Elijah moment, it means we may not be able to change the world, but each and every one of us can change the world of one person. " {Rabbi Daniel Cohen)    " The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day  you find out why." (Mark Twain) Reflecting on my life, for most of the earlier years, like most of us I was just too busy living to think a...

In my book Growing Older, Living Younger, the Science of Aging Gracefully and the Art of Retiring Comfortably, I describe my personal roadmap for aging well, based on seven foundational pillars. Today I talk about the fifth foundational pillar.  I call Pillar Five You Are Not Alone, and it focuses on Connection. As I was reflecting on living alone, loneliness, and the potential adverse consequence...

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. (Virginia Woolf) Today I talk about what dining well means to me, and how, embracing keto genic nutrition and time-restricted eating  changed my aging trajectory from a downward path  to ill health, to aging youthfully with energy, vitality and grace.   On my journey of recovery from sciatica and emergency spinal surgery, I l...

'By teaching people to tune in to their emotions with intelligence and to expand their circles of caring, we can transform organizations from the inside out and make a positive difference in our world.' (Daniel Goleman) "What is motivating the individual to get to the destination is a promise that life will all work out and they will feel good when they finally get there. I'm here to tell you that...

"Growing older can zap our energy, change our perspective, and challenge our stability. Yet the longing to make a difference in the ones we love lingers, like the fragrance in a home when a sweet candle's flame has been extinguished.'  (Rebecca Barlow Jordan)  T oday we are asking the question - have you thought about hosting a podcast?  You may be wondering how is podcasting relevant to  Living Y...

"What we hold in our heads, our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history, is the sum of our humanity.' ( Richard Eyre)    When I asked baby boomer and Gen X men and women what they feared most about growing older,   memory loss and  a fear of developing dementia were major concerns. Many find it hard to differentiate between forgetfulness or memory loss that happens to all...

  'The way to deal with the devil of diabetes and obesity is literally one day at a time.' (Stephen Furst) 'My four pillars of health are fun and effective exercise, healthy food choices and eating habits, effective stress management, and sleeping with purpose' (Dr. Zynul  Khan ) For the past 18 months, every aspect of our lives has been dominated by the covid 19 viral pandemic. There have been ov...

Aptly for today, we have two motivational quotes.   ' The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary'  (Vince Lombard)   'Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile '  ( Franklin P. Jones) 'Rather than think about life in balance, think about how you want to integrate your life. If you think of life as integrated, things shift and blend, rather than...

 ' If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. (Jim Rohn) 'I  had to figure out a way to turn on my heart and mind, connect them together with my body, and once I did that, everything started going up from there' (Michael Johnson)   As a professional ballroom dance competitor, Michael Johnson had natu...

' L ife is a journey that must be travelled, no matter how bad the roads and the accommodations' . (Oliver Goldsmith) ' I found my personal roadmap to healthy aging;  together we can find yours '.  ( Gillian Lockitch ) In this episode, in response to  those who asked to hear the story  underlying the Growing Older Living Younger book and podcast , I talk about the series of traumas that left me in...

' Take care of your body – it's the only place you have to live .' (Jim Rohn)  'As a young trainer I thought I could do everything. Now  as an older trainer I realized that there are some things I do really, really well, and those are the cli ents I like to work with because that's when my best attributes come out' (Cale Dougans)   Every body needs to move.   When the subject of slowing aging come...

 ' Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.' (Jonas Salk) ' My mission was to revolutionize client and health and wellness provider experiences with an easy to use app that would  help people find the services that they need where  they live' (Hedieh Safiyari0 At some stage in our lives almost all of us will find ourselves looking for h...

' The  moment is everything. Don't think about tomorrow, don't think about yesterday, think about exactly what you're doing right now. Live it and dance it and breathe it. And be it.' (Wendy Whelan) 'Depression steals lives, and it stole my life. I was totally disempowered by ill-health. Yoga cracked me open, meditation helped me fall apart and the blocks I had constructed to feel safe, crumbled a...

' Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.' (Kallam Anji Reddy) ' When you live your purpose you are in the flow. Life is effortless, opportunities flow to you and you become unstoppable" (H. Richard Steinhoff...

'Brains at any age are capable of rewiring and changing. No one should be aging, thinking that it's all downhill from here' (Dr. Henry Mahncke) 'The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe" (Michio Kaku) In this conversation with research neuroscientist, Dr. Henry W. Mahn...

  'The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect' (Peter A Levine)  'I see a world where everyone has access to the skills of goal setting, time management, conflict resolution, leadership, personal finance, etiquette, stress reduction, and much more. I'm convinced that these skills could have prevented some of the disasters I have seen. Mo...

'When women are provided with training and entrepreneurial opportunities in distribution networks they become rolemodels in their communities showing it is possible to change limiting norms and stereotypes and to succeed.' (Paul Polman) ' Change is good if you approach it from a place of curiosity. We all have blind spots. We don't know what we don't know. Once you eliminate that blind spot you ha...

'Just say yes to never giving up your passion and you will retain your health, both mentally and physically.'  (Steven Radiloff ) We discuss how body alignment through fascial release counters muscle tension  and helps you retain a healthy range of motion after active exercise. Steven Radiloff, Certified Advanced Rolfer, t rained at the Rocky Mountain Healing Arts Institute and the Rolf Institute,...

'Y ou live as long as you dance' ( Rudolph Nureyev) 'You got to just move. It doesn't matter how efficient your movements are, what matters is that you are moving.' (Susan Bock Smith) Susan Bock Smith earned a Bachelor of Education with a Major in Physical Education from McGill University and taught Elementary Physical  Education prior to raising her family. She is FallProof certified (California...

'In nature there are neither rewards not punishments. There are consequences.'  (Robert Green Ingersoll) "We are a product of what we believe to be true which will always be true for us… until something in life happens that encourages us to think differently." (Rael Kalley) Rael Kalley has been president of coaching and consulting firm, Strategic Pathways, since 1995. He is the best-selling author...

' And you do come out of it, that's  true. After a year, after five. But you don't come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.'    (Julian Barnes) 'We often take self-care for granted… but if we don't do tha...