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Sep 11, 2026 · Health & WellnessEmbrace These 3 Habits for Healthy Aging
Discover three simple habits for healthy aging—nourishing your brain, making time for stillness, and savoring what you love—to support resilience, well-being, and longevity.
Sep 9, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – 6 Evidence-Backed Ways to Support Deep Sleep
Learn why deep sleep matters for longevity and discover six evidence-backed ways to support slow-wave sleep, recovery, brain health and healthy aging.
Sep 7, 2026 · Healthy AgingBeyond Blood Sugar: Why SGLT2 Inhibitors Have Longevity Scientists Excited
Explore the emerging science of SGLT2 inhibitors and longevity, from heart and kidney protection to their potential effects on inflammation, metabolism and healthy aging.
Sep 4, 2026 · MovementWhy Exercise May Be the Best Medicine for Joint Pain
Creaky knees and other sore joints often send us to the medicine cabinet in search of pain relief. But recent research on osteoarthritis suggests we may be better served by simply moving more.
Sep 2, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – What Does an Ideal Night of Sleep Look Like?
Understand the stages of sleep—from light and deep sleep to REM—and learn how healthy sleep architecture supports brain health, recovery and longevity.
Aug 31, 2026 · Healthy AgingSauna Your Way to a Longer, Healthier and Happier Life
Discover the science-backed benefits of sauna bathing for longevity, heart and brain health, inflammation, recovery and sleep—and how often to sauna.
Aug 28, 2026 · Health & WellnessThe Smarter Way to Fly
Flying can disrupt circadian rhythm, hydration, movement, sleep, and recovery. This practical guide offers simple ways to prepare before takeoff, feel better in flight, and reset after landing.
Aug 26, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – Can Meditation Support a More Resilient Brain?
Meditation may do more than reduce stress. Emerging research suggests it may support neuroplasticity, brain connectivity and cognitive resilience as we age.
Aug 24, 2026 · Healthy Aging5 Reasons Why Kicking the Multitasking Habit Can Help You Age Better
Your brain was never designed to multitask. What we call multitasking is really rapid task-switching, and every switch comes at a cost, not just to productivity, but to memory, attention, stress levels, blood pressure, eating habits, and over time, the health of your nervous system. Healthy aging isn't built only on exercise, nutrition, and sleep. It's also shaped by thousands of small choices we make every day, including how we direct our attention. Protecting your focus may be one of the simplest and most overlooked investments you can make in the health of your future brain and body.
Aug 21, 2026 · Healthy AgingBuilding The Brain’s Hidden Superpower: Resilience
Discover how brain resilience may help protect cognitive function with age—and how exercise, sleep, metabolic health, and daily habits can strengthen it.
Aug 19, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Let's Preserve The Summer Harvest
Keep that summer-y feeling all year by preserving the season’s gorgeous produce to use throughout the winter
Aug 17, 2026 · Healthy AgingStealth Infections May Be Speeding Up Your Aging Process – Here's How to Push Back
Most of us think of aging as something that happens entirely inside the body—our cells wear out, our systems slow down, and disease gradually takes hold. But emerging science suggests a more unsettling reality: aging may be profoundly shaped by what enters us from the outside. Viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other pathogens don’t just cause infections and disappear. They can linger silently for years, fueling chronic inflammation, exhausting the immune system, disrupting metabolism, and accelerating the biological processes that drive aging. Scientists now believe these hidden microbial burdens may help explain why we age faster and become more vulnerable to heart disease, dementia, cancer, and frailty. The implications are both sobering and fascinating.
Aug 14, 2026 · Healthy AgingThe #1 Food Habit Associated With Dementia Risk
Discover the #1 food habit associated with dementia risk and how reducing ultra-processed foods may help protect brain health and cognitive function as you age.
Aug 12, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Why Your Brain May Need More Than Glucose as You Age
For decades, we've been told that glucose is the brain's primary fuel. While that's true, research suggests that as we age, the brain may become less efficient at using glucose for energy.
Aug 10, 2026 · NutritionThe Easiest Health Hack in Your Kitchen? 7 Little Seeds With Big Dividends
For some of us, the idea of overhauling your life to enhance your health and wellness can feel daunting, even overwhelming. My advice: break it down into manageable steps. What you eat, and how well you eat, is a big part of the road map. And here’s what I’ve learned after doing this for a long time: the most reliable nutritional “wins” rarely look dramatic. More often, they’re as simple as a spoonful of something small, tossed into a meal you were going to eat anyway. Seeds are a perfect example. For such tiny foods, they pack an extraordinary amount of nutritional firepower into a small package: fiber, unsaturated fats, plant protein, minerals and bioactive compounds that can help support healthy aging.
Aug 7, 2026 · Gut HealthWhat Are Postbiotics?
You’ve probably heard of prebiotics and probiotics. Meet another biotic that can influence your gut health.
Aug 5, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – Can Plants "Teach" Your Cells to Be More Resilient?
According to the theory of xenohormesis, when we eat these plants, those same compounds may serve as signals that activate our own cellular defense and repair pathways—essentially allowing us to benefit from the plant's response to stress.
Aug 3, 2026 · Healthy AgingMeet Your Exposome: The Hidden Force That’s Shaping How Fast You Age
So, how’s your exposome? You know, the totality of everything outside your body that can impact it, from infectious pathogens and industrial chemicals to diet, exercise, chronic stress, and even loneliness. Whether we think about it or not, together, these exposures leave a measurable biological footprint that can influence how we age and our risk for chronic disease. New research suggests that this collection of everyday exposures may have a greater impact on longevity than the genetic risks we inherit. The message is both sobering and empowering: while we can't change the genes we were born with, many of the most important influences on our health are within our control. Here's what the emerging science of the exposome means—and where it matters most in everyday life.
Jul 31, 2026 · Health & WellnessDoes the Scalp Have a Microbiome?
Yes — and it plays a surprising role.
Jul 29, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip: Cardiolipin—The Mitochondrial Fat Almost Nobody Talks About
Researchers have linked damaged cardiolipin to aging as well as cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic dysfunction. Learn about it here.
Jul 27, 2026 · NutritionMy Go-To Green List: Ten Veggies That Do the Heavy Lifting for Your Health
“Let food by thy medicine, and medicine by thy food.” However you phrase it, it’s an excellent reminder not to get so caught up in meal timing regimens or the ins and outs of particular diets that we forget the most important thing, the food itself. And no type of food does a better job of keeping us intact and thriving than vegetables. But I can’t think of a richer, or more health and longevity-supporting haul of veggies than those of the green persuasion.
Jul 24, 2026 · Health & WellnessMicrobes and Memory
Researchers have been exploring the relationship between the gut microbiome and the brain for decades. Two new studies seek to explain how that microbial mix may affect cognitive function.
Jul 22, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Do You Need Electrolytes?
Enjoying hot weather this summer? Then you might want to know about important nutrients called electrolytes. When you sweat, your need for electrolytes increases.
Jul 20, 2026 · Healthy AgingAging Isn’t Just Wear and Tear - It’s Dysregulation — and it’s Time You Tame It
There’s the sympathetic nervous system that puts the body in high alert mode—raises body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, respiration, the works—and primes us for action. And then the parasympathetic system cools everything down, letting the body reset and repair. Together they make up our “autonomic nervous system” that either controls or at least strongly influences the physiology that operates below the level of conscious awareness. If we’re young and healthy, the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems toggle back and forth almost effortlessly, responding to the day’s challenges and recharging at night. But as we get older, we tend to get stuck in high gear – the sympathetic system dominates – and we pay a price for that. The parts wear out; we generate more metabolic waste. We can’t sleep properly, compounding the damage. Net result: we age faster.