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Feb 13, 2026 · Relaxation23 Ways to Simplify Your Life
Try these practical suggestions for decomplicating your life.
Feb 11, 2026 · Health & WellnessHealth Coach Tip - How Love Improves Your Health
The love hormone, Oxytocin, 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 9, 2026 · Healthy AgingWhy I’m Fascinated with Rapamycin — but Not Taking It Yet
Over the past few years, rapamycin has garnered a tremendous amount of buzz, frequently showing up on podcasts, blog posts, scientific papers, and online forums. Some outlets treat it like the most promising anti-aging intervention mankind has ever seen while others view it’s ‘next big thing-ness’ as a dangerous overreach. I fall somewhere in the middle: fascinated by the science, cautious about the risks, and not yet persuaded that the current evidence is strong enough to justify all-purpose “off-label” use. All that said, rapamycin still has plenty of potential as a longevity therapy in the not-too-distant future.
Feb 6, 2026 · Health & Wellness20 Simple Things You Can Do Daily to Support Your Health
A roundup of healthy-living habits you can easily add to your daily routine.
Feb 4, 2026 · Health & WellnessHealth Coach Tip - Calming Inflammation From The Inside Out
In short: an inflamed gut often leads to inflamed skin. How to help?
Feb 2, 2026 · Healthy AgingAre You Aging Out of Sync? Circadian Rhythm Dysfunction May Be To Blame!
Aging is inevitable, but that doesn’t mean it’s an uncontrollable free fall. There are ways to slow the pace at which resilience fades and the body breaks down. One of the simplest, most direct, and most overlooked strategies is working with your internal clock — and preventing circadian rhythm dysfunction from quietly speeding the process along. Circadian rhythm dysfunction is a surprisingly potent accelerator of aging — and most of us don’t even realize it’s happening.
Jan 30, 2026 · RelaxationTry These 4 Practices to Create a More Flexible Mind
Hone your cognitive flexibility with these creative practices.
Jan 28, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – The Benefits Of Ergothioneine
This powerful yet often overlooked plant-derived antioxidant has been making waves in the health and longevity community.
Jan 26, 2026 · Healthy AgingYour Longevity Superpower: How Muscles Keep Your Heart, Brain and Body Younger Longer
For decades, having a good amount of muscle was considered optional — nice to have if you wanted to look toned or perform well in sports, but few thought of it as essential to health. That view has changed dramatically. Today, researchers increasingly describe skeletal muscle as a primary longevity organ, a biological system that actively determines how well we age rather than passively reflecting it. Turns out, muscle influences nearly every system that matters for a long, healthy life: metabolism, immune defense, cardiovascular function, brain health, resilience to illness, and physical independence. When muscle tissue is strong and active, aging slows. When it declines, the entire system becomes more fragile.
Jan 23, 2026 · Movement5 Ways to Sharpen Your Senses While You Exercise
Embrace your sensory experience — and boost your brain health — by tuning in while working out.
Jan 21, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - The Food Pyramid
Recently, the United States government unveiled a major overhaul of its national dietary guidelines, bringing back the food pyramid with a completely new design and message. This shift, labeled a historic reset of federal nutrition policy, moves away from nutrition models used for more than a decade and reflects a new approach to what Americans should eat.
Jan 19, 2026 · Healthy AgingSlow Your Aging Roll Overnight – With Longevity-Loving Sleep!
The bedside table light turns off, you slip into unconsciousness and the business of living is put on hold until you wake up in the morning. Except that’s not really how sleep works. While you’re conked out, the body is busily engaged in a slew of renovation and repair operations that human life depends on. And it’s the difference between good sleep – 7-9 hours a night – and insufficient poor-quality sleep that helps determine how well, nor not so well, we age. Sleeping well and enough helps tame the inflammation ages us and nearly every system in the body. So, if your body is operating in a high inflammation state, you’re aging faster, and in a low inflammation state, slower.
Jan 16, 2026 · MovementMake Your Fitness Routine Fascia Friendly With These 6 Tips
Fascia is key to not just your fitness activities but to nearly everything you do. Here's how to take care of it.
Jan 14, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - The Health Benefits Of Chia Seeds
The benefits of chia seeds + how to eat more of them.
Jan 12, 2026 · Healthy AgingLow-Dose Lithium: The Little Mineral with Big Potential for Longevity and a Healthier Brain
What’s emerging now is a portrait of lithium as a subtle supporter of brain health and longevity, especially when used in microdoses far below psychiatric levels.
Jan 9, 2026 · Healthy AgingNo Bones About It
Mounting evidence suggests that osteoporosis is more common — and more serious — in older men than previously thought. But a lack of consensus among public health experts has hampered access to necessary screenings.
Jan 7, 2026 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Get In More Steps
Here are some simple tips to take more steps in a day, no matter what your goal is.
Jan 5, 2026 · Healthy Aging4 Theories of Aging – and How to Start Making Choices to Help Slow the Pace
Aging is a privilege. Yes, some aspects don’t always feel that way — lines and wrinkles, muscles that aren’t as pumped as they once were, thinning hair — but these are simply gentle reminders that time is doing what time does to us all. Beneath the surface, something deeper is happening: all 37 trillion of your cells are aging right along with you. That can feel a little unnerving, but here’s the good news — once you understand why aging happens, you can start making choices that help slow the pace and support better healthspan and longevity. Aging doesn’t have to be a runaway train.
Jan 2, 2026 · Healthy AgingLongevity in the GLP-1 Era: GLP-1 and Aging
Because longevity isn’t about eating less—it’s about signaling better.
Dec 31, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – New Year, New Resolutions
Here’s what to look for in a sustainable resolution.
Dec 29, 2025 · Healthy AgingTop 16 Must-Read Longevity Articles for 2025 – And Why They Matter
If there’s one thing I’ve learned immersed in the worlds of longevity and integrative health, it’s that science never stands still (and thank heavens for that!). Just about every day, fascinating new ideas and insights emerge to dig into. Some confirm what we’ve long suspected, while others may challenge our assumptions, and still others may give rise to entirely new ways of thinking about how we age and how we thrive.
Dec 26, 2025 · Health & WellnessBalancing Act
Mounting evidence suggests that an unbalanced mix of microbes in our guts can damage our physical and mental health. New research argues that it can also affect how we age.
Dec 24, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Holiday Food Tips
Flexible holiday eating tips.
Dec 22, 2025 · Health & WellnessReaders’ Choice: 15 Favorite Lipman Posts of 2025
As a doctor, educator, and lifelong health and longevity advocate, my mission is to help patients and health-conscious readers understand not just the science behind longevity, but the simple, practical actions that can profoundly influence how long and how well one can live with vitality. As 2025 winds down, I want to revisit and share a few of my site’s top posts—the ones that struck a chord with readers, and, in their own different ways, helped shape the global conversation around healthspan and longevity.