Healthy Tips After 50 Podcast

y guest this week, Eric Dagati, has spent the past 20 years in the fitness industry as a coach, trainer and instructor, pioneering his unique approach to client assessment, performance enhancement and injury prevention. His company, ONE Human Performance, provides fitness, training and wellness services in New Jersey and his list of clients includes an Olympic Gold Medalist, All-Americans, Nationa...

My guest today is Dr. Melina Jampolis, a board-certified physician nutrition specialist (one of only a few hundred). She has hosted her own program on Discovery Network's FIT TV, and was the diet and fitness expert on CNNHealth.com as well as appearing on many other channels & shows like Live Kelly and Ryan, Dr. Oz Show, CNN, The Today Show, and Anderson Live. We had an interesting discussion abou...

Self-Care for Heart Health A study published in the journal Health Psychology that I read about was the spark for this podcast. The study had found a connection between self-care and self-compassion with heart health. More self-care & compassion created less plaque buildup on their heart's carotid artery walls - a major risk for developing cardiovascular disease. The results confirmed that practic...

Emotional Eating Tricia Nelson has put yo-yo weight and dieting behind her and on the podcast she tells us how and why she did that. Her business is called Heal Your Hunger and is an effort to help women (and some men) around the world to get control of food , feel in control around food, and get to the size they want to be at without dieting or doing crazy exercise programs. You'll learn more abo...

Resistant Starch? Today's show is about how you can eat some of the good tasting starchy food that you like and not feel guilty. These kinds of starches are good for you and they will keep you healthy. Resistant starches are a healthy carbohydrate (bet you didn't think there was such a thing). It is lowers blood sugar after your meal and it improves gut health. To learn more about all the good thi...

Live Your Life From Love My guest this week is author Dr. Marni Hill Foderaro. Marni shares her life story with us, from a 35-year career as a high school special education teacher through earning her doctorate in education and completing postdoctoral studies at Harvard to now as a successful author of award-winning spiritual fiction. Marni's journey also included domestic violence and spousal abu...

Never Binge Again This week's guest is Glenn Livingston, Ph. D., author of the book Never Binge Again along with other books and products to help people get down to and stay at their ideal weight. Glenn is a psychologist, and comes from a long line of psychologists, who found himself very overweight and unable to lose it and keep it off. That was when he found the key to losing weight and wrote hi...

Today's podcast is a little different from my usual formats. It's not an interview and it's not about health issues or studies. It's an important secret that I'm sharing from a well-known and well-respected coach, teacher, and consultant named Mavis Karn. Listen to this relatively short podcast without having anything else on your mind, you'll hear the secret of who you really are, and if you list...

Embodied Meditation Neil McKinlay is an Embodied Meditation Teacher and has his own podcast called Bringing Meditation to Life. You'll find a link to both his website and his podcast below. We had a very interesting discussion about the different types of meditation and what "Embodied Meditation" means to him. We also discussed how the Pandemic has affected all kinds of energy and community based...

World-Class Wellness Care Today's guest is Sara O'Neill, a Doctor of Chiropractic who is also certified at the highest level with the Network Spinal Analysis method. Sara's mission is to bring world-class and transformative wellness care to every member of her practice. In the podcast Sara explains the Network Spinal Analysis method and how she combines it with her training as a transformative coa...

New Year's Greetings 2022! A very short show this week. Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and a Wonderful 2022 year ahead! Also, a reminder that I am continuing my offer of a Holiday Coaching Session to support anyone who needs a friendly person to talk to during the holidays. Just use this link to choose a day/time in my schedule that works for you - https://bit.ly/Coaching-session Enjoy your New...

Season's Greetings! I recorded a short podcast this week with some holiday wishes and some holiday advice. The advice is something short that you can experiment with this holiday season to keep yourself balanced and grounded. It's something that's definitely turned my life around. Check it out and let me know if you've found it helpful as well. I also let everyone know that I have some coaching se...

What is this Heart Test for? As we and our parents get older the possibility of having a heart test starts to loom closer in the rear-view mirror. Today's show explains what some of the most common heart tests are that we may be sent out to get. As I like to say, information is power and having an introduction to them now can definitely help us all in case we (or someone we love) is sent to get on...

Daily Wellness For You This week's guest is Barbara Diaz de Leon. Barbara was an RN whose prior career was in Healthcare Administration but after experiencing her own health crisis she became a certified Health and Wellness Coach through both the Primal Health Coach Institute and the Institute of Transformational Nutrition. Barbara created her company, Daily Wellness for You LLC, to help women los...

Fighting Inflammation Today's show tries to sort through inflammation and the different kinds of inflammation - the kind that helps you heal, the kind that creates disease, and the kind that turns your body against itself. I talk about inflammatory and anti-inflammatory foods. And I also talk about how chronic stress can create inflammation and disease all by itself. It's pretty straight-forward i...

What is Cryotherapy? Today's guest, Kyle Jones, is the co-founder and COO of iCRYO. He has been involved in health & wellness since becoming an athlete in high school, then continuing on through college, and after college when he won national gold medals in Competitive Power Lifting. He also worked as a Physical Therapist where he learned about how important rehab & recovery are. He was first intr...

What Song Makes You Get Up and Dance? For me I love almost any kind of music and it makes me feel good to know that there are positive, physical benefits from listening (and dancing) to it. I talk about an NIH-funded music and health initiative. It's so exciting to learn about some wonderful results they are getting from their research into Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and stroke recovery. There are...

Eating For You - Emotional Eating My interview guest this week is Sallyanne Pisk. She lives in Australia and she helps women to transform their eating mindset and their relationship with food. I should point out though that a lot of what we discussed applies to men these days as well as women so if you're male don't turn the podcast off. The biggest takeaway from this podcast is that we should eat...

Practicing Gratitude Today's show is about how transformative it can be to practice gratitude on a regular basis. It can improve your health, relationships, work environment, and those of your family and friends. When others see how it's changed your life they will want to learn more and start practicing gratitude in their own lives. I know that I have done a previous show on this but, because of...

The Healthy Skeptic My interview guest is Robert Davis, Ph. D., also known as The Healthy Skeptic. Robert is an award-winning journalist whose latest book is "Supersized Lies", How myths about weight loss are keeping us fat - and the truth about what really works. We had a very interesting conversation about dieting, food, and individual health and how trying to follow the many diet plans out in t...

3 New Things to Know This podcast has 3 interesting study results. The first has to do with low B-12 levels leading to dementia. The second is about fidgeting while you're stuck sitting some place for hours - like on a plane ride. And the third is a study which found a clear link in women between eating dairy products and a lower risk of cancer. It's not a long podcast so give it a listen and get...

What is Andropause? Today's podcast is with Dr. Chris Azzola who you all are familiar with from previous podcasts. Cris has a very interesting subject to talk about and it's called Andropause, which is the male version of Menopause. I bet you didn't know that it even existed, I didn't. There are some similarities as well as a lot of differences and we cover a lot of them here in this podcast. We a...

Signs or Symptoms? Is there a difference between Medical Signs and Medical Symptoms? Turns out that there is ever since the 20th Century - before that time they were the same. It's still pretty confusing to those of us who are not patients or observers but it turns out to not be as confusing as it seems. Symptoms are what we feel but can't always see. Signs point toward diseases, objective evidenc...

Cataracts Explained with Dr. Shamie Today's guest, Dr. Neda Shamie, is an Opthalmologist M.D. at The Maloney-Shamie Vision Institute in Los Angeles, CA. We had a very interesting and enlightening conversation about cataracts, what to watch for, what to do if you think you've developed them, and the many options now available to us to fix them. Most options actually give you better eye sight and yo...

Integrative Medicine Conversation An Interview with Aaron Hartman M.D. This is one of my longer interviews because there was just so much to talk about and we really only skimmed the surface of the whole subject. Dr. Hartman is originally from and currently lives in Virginia where he is one of the rare Integrative Medicine doctors. Dr. Hartman became interested in this area of medicine because of...