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Mar 14, 2025 · Movement8 Powerful Ways Exercise Benefits The Brain
The benefits of physical activity are more than muscle-deep. Moving your body builds and conditions your gray matter, making you smarter, happier, and more resilient.
Mar 12, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - The Benefits of Colostrum
Colostrum, often referred to as "liquid gold," is the first form of milk produced by mammals after giving birth. Rich in antibodies, growth factors, and essential nutrients, colostrum plays a crucial role in supporting immune function, gut health, and overall well-being. While it is most commonly associated with newborns, bovine colostrum supplements have gained popularity for their wide range of health benefits.
Mar 10, 2025 · Healthy AgingThe Multi-tasking Miracle Mineral for a Longer Life: Magnesium's Role in Longevity
Good health is like a good recipe – it’s the combination of ingredients that makes the dish. By now, I’m sure you know that the combination of essential ‘ingredients’ – as in, a whole foods diet, plenty of movement, restorative sleep, relaxation and stress reduction – is the right “recipe” for your body to function optimally for a long, long time. What else to add to the good health and longevity recipe? Well, it’s my business to have a number of ideas on that score, but one of the simplest is – just add magnesium to the mix.
Mar 7, 2025 · Healthy AgingHormone Health and Longevity: Making the Connection
Elizabeth Yurth, MD, explains some of the key hormones that affect our wellness, the role they play in our health, what happens if they’re not appropriately balanced, and how to be proactive about addressing hormonal changes.
Mar 5, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Grow Your Own Food
Whether you have land for a large garden, access to a community garden, a small raised bed, a city fire escape, or just a window sill, there is something magical about planting your own seeds and watching them grow. Gardening also gives us the opportunity to really understand seasonal food, eat a little healthier, and feel connected to our meals in a mindful way.
Mar 3, 2025 · Healthy AgingThe Lipman Longevity Pyramid: Your Blueprint for a Long and Healthier Life
Traveling the longevity path requires a proactive effort on your part –it’s not a one-and-done deal. It’s about creating a road map that combines health and longevity-promoting lifestyle habits with cutting-edge scientific innovations and treatment modalities to enhance quality of life and reduce the risks of disease and early mortality. So, how do we get there? In my practice, the answer is the Lipman Longevity Pyramid, my framework for cultivating your optimal health, resilience, and vitality for decades to come.
Feb 28, 2025 · Health & WellnessThe Silent Saboteurs: How Total Toxic Burden and Endocrine Disruptors Hijack Your Hormones
One of the most insidious contributors to the disruption of our well-being is the concept of total toxic burden, with a spotlight on the pesky players known as endocrine disruptors. Learn more here.
Feb 26, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Use These Exercises To Rev Up Your Digestion
Your digestive health plays a key role in your overall well-being, and certain movements can help stimulate digestion, reduce bloating, and promote regularity. Try incorporating these simple exercises into your daily routine to keep your gut happy and healthy.
Feb 24, 2025 · Health & WellnessAcetyl-L-carnitine Puts Better Brain Health, Mood and Energy on Your Agenda
As the chemical first cousin of L-carnitine, which you’ve probably heard of, acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC) has been steadily building up a track record of research that’s making the health and longevity world stand up and take notice. While both forms of carnitine are intimately bound up in the body’s production of energy inside the cell’s powerplants, the mitochondria, the acetyl version is better absorbed in supplement form and has been found to have more significant effects “above the neck,” on cognitive and mental health especially. So, if you’re interested in upgrading and possibly extending your healthspan and lifespan (carnitine levels decline with age!) it’s time to get to know ALC better.
Feb 21, 2025 · Nutrition12 Common Questions About Sugar and Your Health — Answered
Here's what you need to know about the sweet stuff’s effects on your health.
Feb 19, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Why Cacao?
Discover some of the benefits of cacao.
Feb 17, 2025 · Health & WellnessHow Chemicals are Making Us Fat and Sick – and 14 Tips to Combat Them
Chemically speaking, the world we’re living in is something of a minefield. Toxic man-made chemicals are everywhere, in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the indoor and outdoor environments we inhabit. They are so pervasive that it’s essential that you protect yourself from the onslaught, minimize your exposure and steer clear of as many of them as you possibly can. Why make the effort? Because the volume of toxic chemicals we’re dealing with daily are laying siege to our bodies, and particularly to our metabolic health, making millions of us fatter and sicker than any generation that’s gone before.
Feb 14, 2025 · SleepWhy Quality Sleep Matters — and What to Do When You’re Not Getting It
The healing power of sleep may elude us for any number of reasons — including insomnia. Learn why quality sleep is so essential and how to get more of it.
Feb 12, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Oxytocin, Love and Your Health
Oxytocin, the "love hormone," delivers a wide range of health benefits from potentially improving depression and anxiety, to enhancing parent-child bonding, and even contributing to facets of gut health.
Feb 10, 2025 · Healthy AgingWalking Your Way to Longevity
These days, many of us are seeking simple ways to cultivate better physical and mental health – and longevity. Where to start? Put on your walking shoes. Walking is one of the most easily accessed forms of exercise that has a profound impact for on slowing aging and contributing to longevity. As researchers continue to learn more on the science behind aging, walking consistently ranks high on the list of powerful tools to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being – all of which are all essential for extending life expectancy and enhancing quality of life for decades to come.
Feb 7, 2025 · RelaxationHow Can the Vagus Nerve Help Lower Inflammation?
Stimulating the vagus nerve leads to the release of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that affects inflammation. Learn more.
Feb 5, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - The Benefits of Acupuncture
Acupuncture, an ancient practice rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), has been used for over 2,000 years to restore balance and promote overall well-being. This holistic therapy involves the insertion of thin needles into specific points on the body to stimulate energy flow, or "Qi" (pronounced "chee"). While its origins are ancient, modern science has begun to validate many of acupuncture’s benefits, making it a popular choice for people seeking natural and complementary healthcare solutions.
Feb 3, 2025 · Healthy Aging7 High Tech – and Enjoyable – Longevity Tools to Try Today!
While some days you may stick to the longevity landing better than others, keep in mind that a vibrant health span is the product of a life-long journey. In my longevity-focused practice, it’s my job to guide patients towards minimizing their risk for life-altering or life-shortening conditions like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. That guidance integrates an analysis of an individual’s medical history, lifestyle advice and state-of-the-art diagnostic testing. It’s all in the service of coming up with a personalized longevity ‘road map.’ One big part of the process is taking advantage of the best health technology available.
Jan 31, 2025 · RelaxationThe Connection Between Heart-Rate Variability (HRV) and Vagal Tone
People with chronic stress tend to have low HRV. Learn why.
Jan 29, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - How To Support Your Vision
Can you support your vision with lifestyle changes? Protecting your vision is possible with healthy lifestyle choices. Here’s how!
Jan 27, 2025 · Healthy AgingMildly Tarnished Wisdom of the ‘Blue Zones’ and 5 Essential Longevity Lessons
Despite its shaky data, Blue Zones reporting on the so-called secrets of living long and well, still has value. It’s less about specific claims of exceptionally long life-and-healthspans and more about the broader, big-picture lifestyle habits it shined a klieg light on for the millions of people who otherwise might have remained in the dark.
Jan 24, 2025 · NutritionHow to Rescue Produce Before It Spoils
How to tell when your fruits and veggies have really gone bad — plus, tips to save them before they do.
Jan 22, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Exercise Motivation For Cold Weather
Here are some tips to stay fit despite the weather!
Jan 20, 2025 · Healthy AgingThe ‘Miracle’ Diabetes and Weight Loss Drugs — That May Also Keep You Younger Longer
The impact of so-called GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro has been, in a word, massive. They’ve been extraordinarily successful at pushing insulin production up – and driving too-high blood sugar levels down and supporting weight loss. But beyond the blood-sugar control and weight loss benefits, GLP-1s are also producing a startling number of additional healthspan-enhancing benefits, and showing themselves to be exceptionally useful tools in the war on aging. In fact, GLP-1s may quite possibly become the most powerful anti-aging, longevity-promoting drugs ever, with the power to change how we age, and how well we do it, for generations to come.