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

In today's conversation with Dr. Mike Van Thielen, we discuss how biohacking can further the Growing Older Living Younger mission of extending healthspan to live younger longer. The term, biohacking sounds very futuristic and science-fiction, but the GOLY concept of making small changes in lifestyle and habits to support metabolism and change physiology, is in fact biohacking, to enhance mental an...

In today's conversation with Dr. Daved Rosensweet, Founder of The Menopause Method and The Institute of BioIdentical Medicine, we discuss whether there is a place for replenishment with bioidentical hormones in management of menopause. We discuss the safety and efficacy of bio-identical hormone therapy. What are bio-identical hormones?   What is the risk for a woman to be treated with hormones? Co...

Nootropics are natural or synthetic chemical substances that are said to improve cognitive functions, mood, motivation and creativity in healthy people. In today's conversation, Mark (Mr. Noots) Effinger talks of creating high-performance experiential nutritional supplements to manage and improve physiological and neurological performance. Whether it's about   mind, body, energy, sex, sleep, motiv...

In last week's episode I spoke with award-winning Clinician-Scientist, and 40+ year University of British Columbia Endocrinology Professor. Dr. Jerilynn Prior, about the Paradox of Perimenopause. Dr. Prior's research and innovative concepts has shown that progesterone must be in balance with estradiol for wellbeing and fertility during the premenopausal years and that progesterone decreases menopa...

Welcome back to this special end of year, Boxing Day episode of Growing Older Living Younger.   Aging is inevitable. Aging in poor health is not. The theme of today's episode is changing aging. Although we inherit our intrinsic genetic DNA blueprint from our parents, over our lifetime, extrinsic factors modify how our genes are expressed - the science   of switching genes on and off, is known as e...

What biomarkers does your doctor measure? During my conversation with experts practising in diverse fields of wellness and healthy longevity, something that rarely comes up is the use of biomarkers, either to suggest a practice direction or to monitor results of interventions. As a Medical Biochemist, and past director of a department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for me, precise and accur...

Today we talk about Intuitive Eating, a mind-body health approach, described as   a personal process of honoring health by listening and responding to the direct messages of the body in order to meet physical and psychological needs. My guest is Bonnie Giller, author of Enjoying Food Peace: Recipes and Intuitive Eating Wisdom to Nourish Your Body and Mind.  Bonnie has her Master of Science degree...

Today's guest is the speaker, "no one will ever forget," Sabine Becker.  As one of the 5000 babies born to German mothers given thalidomide during pregnancy, Sabine was born with very small arms.   She embraced a mindset of hope, defied her own limiting beliefs by creating her acronym P.U.S.H. ~Persevere Until Success Happens and learned to navigate an "Armed World" by using her feet for all daily...

This special episode is coming to you from Podapalooza, the virtual event where podcast hosts and speakers meet to record podcasts and make new hosting and speaking connections. I was a featured Podapalooza podcast host at the most recent event where I talked with a variety of interesting speakers. The overall focus of these interviews centered around tips, tools and strategies to enhance mental p...

Throughout the animal kingdom, from fruit flies to worms to primates, one of the critical keys to longevity, or lifespan, and even more important, health span, is caloric restriction. Ensuring that you obtain all the essential nutrients, yet eat less of them, is one of the ways to do that. Eating food within a narrow time window rather than continually throughout the day, also flips genetic switch...

Listener alert: Today's podcast is going to be a little different from my usual format of a conversation with a featured guest. First of all, it's not the podcast that I had planned, featuring 3 guest interviews - and there is a story behind this. Instead it's about mindset - my mindset and where the attributes of consistency, spontaneity and resilience come into play. And I 'm recording it sponta...

We all know that nutrition is a key influence on our mental and physical health. Nutrition encompasses what you eat, when and how you eat,   how your body absorbs and metabolizes nutrients, and gets rid of excess or waste products. In recent episodes of this podcast we examined how the foods we eat may promote wellness, or adversely affect our health. We have also explored the importance of when w...

"The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help." (Sandra Tsing Loh) For today's guest, Intermittent Fasting Coach and Author, Laurie Lewis, menopause dealt a crushing blow. She e...

The goal of the Growing Older Living Younger podcast is to show you how small changes in lifestyle and habits can have a big impact on your health and vitality as you age. The way we develop, mature and age, is governed by an ongoing complex interaction of our genome, the DNA blue print we get from our parents, with our environment. This synergy of nature and nurture makes us who we become by swit...

Get your money working harder FOR you so you don't have to work so hard. (Penelope Jane Smith) A theme that has come up repeatedly in this podcast   is the effect that undue stress can have on health and health span. As today's guest knows only too well, one of the top stressors for many people is money. And rather than thinking about it, too many of us do the ostrich thing, and bury our heads in...

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) with associated lower urinary tract symptoms occurs increasingly as men age. Estimates suggest that around 50% of men in the 50 to 60 age group feel the effects of BPH, and the prevalence increases with each decade. Herbal supplements made from the berries of the saw palmetto palm tree  are widely taken to lessen symptoms. But the effectiveness of these supplemen...

Today we talk about intermittent fasting, a powerful  way to reduce cravings, control weight and live youthfully.  During my rehabilitation from sciatica and spinal surgery, I was struggling to lose the excess fat I had gained from months of inactivity.  Despite a low carbohydrate diet and daily exercise, my weight was dropping very slowly. I decided to  go fully ketogenic, low carb and healthy fa...

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league. (Eliezer Yudkowsky)   In this episode, we contemplate how   Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help yo...

It is well recognized that an important determinant of  wellbeing and healthy aging is socialization, being connected to family, friends and community. Most of us want to be loved and nurtured. Sometimes we are lucky, we find our soulmate, our other half or Plato's split apart. Others keep searching for that perfect person. I was recently reflecting that I had not had a guest on to talk about find...

In Growing Older Living Younger, we discuss how small changes in lifestyle and habits can have a big impact on your health and vitality as you age. Using healthy aging strategies, tools and products, you can favourably alter your aging at the cellular level by changing gene expression, and differentiating your biological age from your chronological age. The impact of the explosion of genomic resea...

  The critical key to surmounting obstacles, conquering challenges, and reaching your goals lies in your mind. You have to believe with your whole being that you can do it. Often what holds you back is fear. Today I talk with Michael Hingson, author of Thunderdog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero, about diversity, inclusion and conquering the min...

Albert Einstein famously said "life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." Keeping physically active and moving is a key factor for overall wellness, and for healthy aging. Many studies have shown a strong association between a sedentary lifestyle and decreased longevity. Conversely, movement activities such as dance, specially partner dancing, have been associated with del...

In today's conversation I talk with Frances Edmonds, Inspirational Speaker and author of "Repotting Your Life: Sense When You're Stuck. Explore What's Possible. Claim Room to Grow." When I first read this book, my thoughts jumped to the colourful collection of red, purple and blue African Violets on my sun-drenched mantelpiece. I recalled how I transferred the tiny plants that grew from leaf cutti...

Today our conversation centres around the benefits of dance for enhancing healthy aging for both mind and body. I   was reflecting on the many ways in which dance has positively impacted my life, and I thought that John Travolta says it   best. " Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy." For me, dance is the best fitness activity. It is relatively low im...

I was contemplating my upcoming conversation with Life and Relationship coach, Amy Schoen, when I came across this quote from Margaret Mead, who said: " One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. " That gave me pause for thought. Five years ago, single person households in Canada comprised 28% of all households. That's a lot of people...