Healthy Tips After 50 Podcast

Health & Wellness Coach Cheryl Borchardt My guest this week, Cheryl Borchardt, is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She helps individuals calm bothersome symptoms associated with chronic disease and autoimmune conditions by helping them get their lifestyle and gut healthy. We talk about how her own personal journey to good health l...

A Full, Interesting, and Meaningful Life Mary Howick spent almost 30 years in leadership positions with multi-national financial institutions. She is also a single mother which means she spent a lot of time balancing those two parts of her life. She also decided to become a psychotherapist, Reiki Master and Isha Judd System facilitator at the same time. Then she got cancer and that changed her lif...

How Good is Your Balance? As we age our bodies get weaker and then our balance starts to get worse as well. Once that happens we have a tendency to take a fall. Falling is one of the main reasons that older (over 65) people end up in the emergency room and the hospital and that every 19 minutes an "older adult" in the U.S. dies from a fall. Scary isn't it? This is also a huge financial burden on t...

Yoga During the Pandemic This week's podcast is a rebroadcast of an interview I did with Louise Tyrrell back when the Covid-19 sheltering started. I think that it is just as valuable to revisit the information and Louise's Free 7-Day Yoga Challenge. Louise is an Inspirational Speaker, Yoga Teacher, and the founder of ZenLife Yoga & Wellness Retreats. We had a very interesting conversation about he...

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...

Where Are the Minorities and Women in Clinical Trials? This podcast is about something that was mandated to be changed/fixed in 1997 and, although it's a little bit better, it is still broken. What I'm talking about are the clinical trials that try out a new medication or new procedure to see if it's safe and does what it says it's supposed to do. It is supposed to treat an illness or a condition...

THE SILENT HEART ATTACK There is something called a Silent Heart Attack (SMI) and there are a lot of people who have one. Depending on the studies or the source it is thought that up to 50% of all heart attacks could be SMI's. SMI stands for Silent Myocardial Infarction, and a Myocardial Infarction the scientific name for a heart attack - so SMI is a silent "heart attack". Makes sense right?? I ha...

Living With Uncertainty This show is a little more on the psychology side of things and has to do with what I have been seeing and feeling over the past few months. It started before Covid flared up but became even more true and insightful for me after Covid started. We are all experiencing a lot of anxiety and stress (as I've been talking about quite a lot in my podcasts) and I've covered some of...

WALKING FOR EXERCISE DURING A PANDEMIC Exercising anytime is important and it's particularly important during a pandemic like we're experiencing right now. We all need to support our immune systems to be able to fight off this disease and to be strong in case we actually end up getting it. Being over 50 makes us especially vulnerable so we need to do what we can beef up our immune system. Because...

Eating Enlightenment with Jared Levenson Today's podcast is very interesting. My guest is Jared Levenson and we talked about eating, Intuitive eating, Enlightened Eating, Comfort Eating, and a number of other kinds of eating. We talked about how to eat so you're not hungry all of the time and how he works with clients to enable them to stop the constant all day hunger and be content. He has an int...

Memory Loss Misconceptions There are a lot of things that many of us think of as truths around our memory and our brains. This podcast covers some of them. The first and most important one is that our memories are accurate. That is absolutely not correct! Not only are our memories not accurate, they change every time we bring them up out of our brains. That explains, for instance, why you and your...

Inside-Out Thinking: An Interview with Clesia Mendes Clesia Mendes is a Speaker and Mindset Coach who has over 25 years of experience in the personal development world. She loves traveling and teaching a new paradigm of psychology that, in her words, "has been discreetly emanating throughout the world". I had invited Clesia to come on the podcast as a part of my continuing brain series of podcasts...

BDNF - CREATING BRAIN NEURONS Improving Your Brain with BDNF This week's podcast is one from the archives. As I've been doing this brain series I thought that this one about BDNF would fit in well. BDNF is something that many people in the health & wellness field have started using to wake up and improve their brains. BDNF stands for Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and it is a protein found in t...

Food and the Brain - How They Impact Each Other In putting this podcast together I learned so much about how food can affect our brains as well as how our brains control and influence satiety, overeating, and obesity. I found so many different kinds of studies dealing with food and our brain that I couldn't even include them all. Colorful fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, whole grains, avocad...

YOUR BRAIN & YOUR PURPOSE This is the second show related to our brains and how we can improve them. Did you know that our brains like having purpose in our lives. A reason to get up in the morning, to do things, learn things, and figure things out. All of those give the brain exercise and improve health physically as well as psychologically. We human beings work best in a community and having a p...

Ways to Deal with Stress & Anxiety from Covid-19 This podcast is the start of a series where I'll address the different issues that are affecting our brains during this difficult time. I've looked at some of these areas before but never as a whole and never in the environment that we're living in today. There are many different ways to deal with stress and anxiety and I talk about some of those in...

Manage, Improve, & Heal Arthritis Growing up I always thought that Arthritis was something you got when you were older and it didn't go away. Now I've learned that you can actually not get it to start with and if you have it you can manage it, improve it, and actually cure it. This podcast gives you information about how exercise can help strengthen your muscles and your joints which will improve...

Learning From Previous Quarantines Many of us are still Sheltering-in-Place while some places are starting to open up and in others people are creating a hazard by ignoring the public safety orders. This podcast is about how enforced isolation has affected earlier populations during and after the SARS, Ebola, H1N1 Influenzas, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and Equine Influenza epidemics. The st...

Now May Be The Best Time to Declutter ****This is a repeat of a podcast from earlier this year but I thought it was very valuable to share again as we are all at home and it's probably a good time to clear up our clutter.**** How has clutter impacted your life? It's a very controversial subject, especially with people at both ends of the spectrum – hoarders & obsessive cleaners. I am not a hoarder...

A Glass of Wine Makes For a Healthy Life This podcast is all about the many benefits of drinking one glass of red wine each day. There are many studies which I talk about that show the positive benefits of red wine. It has been shown to have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer behavior in your body as well of benefit in the fight against cardiovascular disease. I talk about studies that have shown i...

Changing Your Eating Habits for the Better Today's podcast is all about Intermittent Fasting, what it is, how to do it, and how it's actually hit the mainstream. Seems to me that now is a good time to try Intermittent Fasting - you won't have the usual temptations to cheat and/or give up. I talk about 4 main types of fasting and a couple of other variations on those as well. The easiest (I think)...

Finding Your Balance With Yoga and Mindset Training I am sure that you will all enjoy this week's podcast. My guest is Louise Tyrrell, Inspirational Speaker, Yoga Teacher, and founder of ZenLife Yoga & Wellness Retreats. We had such an interesting conversation about her life and the current Shelter In Place and Quarantine happening to us and all around us during this pandemic. (Louise lives in Ire...

Tips to Stay Calm & Maintain Your Health This podcast covers how to eat well, exercise, and use vitamins to bolster your health and keep it strong. Then there is a centering meditation along with some mindset exercises to keep you balanced and out of worry. A few extra suggestions related to sleep, hand washing, and thankfulness for all of the medical workers, grocery workers, and others keeping o...

Eat Well For Heart Health Today's podcast talks about 5 types of food that are very good for your heart health. This is especially important during what is for many people a stressful and overwhelming time. Keeping a good diet of healthy foods can help us to maintain a strong immune system. Stress is one of the hardest things on our immune system so we all need to remember to eat well, sleep well,...

Spend Less Time Worrying & More Time Doing! Spending time worrying about things that happened in the past or may happen in the future is like throwing that time away. You can't change the past and you can't create the future until you get there. We should live our lives in the present - we can only influence the future once it has becomes the present. Information from the Massachusetts General Hos...