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Oct 24, 2025 · Health & WellnessAll (Adult) Vaginas Need Estrogen
Why most adult vaginas need estrogen brought to you by Dr. Amy Killen.
Oct 22, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – Prep For A Healthier Halloween
October is the month of candy. Halloween brings endless bowls of M&Ms, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and Candy Corn — all filled with sugar, artificial flavors, food dyes, GMO cornstarch, and other scary ingredients! But with a little planning, you can enjoy the season without the sugar crash (or the junk). Here are some fun, healthier alternatives that are just as delicious — and way better for you.
Oct 20, 2025 · Healthy AgingMore than Just Jet-Lag Helper: How Mighty Melatonin May Guard Your Brain, Mitochondria, and Longevity
Chances are, you’ve probably taken melatonin from time to time when struggling with sleep or crisscrossing time zones. The idea is that as evening falls, your primary energy hormone cortisol drops and melatonin goes up, cueing the body for sleep, which is why some have dubbed melatonin “the hormone of darkness.” Well, guess what? Melatonin is stepping into the spotlight to help aging brains The latest research has revealed that it’s produced in the mitochondria, the cell powerplants, in a number of your organs, and that it’s involved a wide range of important physiological processes, some of which have nothing directly to do with sleep – and more to do with brain health over the long haul.
Oct 17, 2025 · MovementThe Benefits of Training With Your Heels Up
Lifting your heels while exercising can prevent injury and boost athleticism. Try it out by adding these moves into your strength routine.
Oct 15, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – What is Angiogenesis and How to Support It for Longevity
When we talk about healthy aging, one of the most fascinating—and often overlooked—processes to explore is angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. This natural ability of the body to create fresh vessels from existing ones is more than just a biological curiosity—it’s vital for healing wounds, regenerating tissues, and keeping circulation strong. In fact, angiogenesis plays a powerful role in how well we age, influencing everything from energy and recovery to long-term health and longevity.
Oct 13, 2025 · Movement8 Ways Training Your Muscles Benefits Your Brain’s Longevity
Did you know that new research shows that the health benefits of fit muscles reach all the way into the brain? When you challenge your muscles with exercise, you are directly pushing back against brain aging, by producing rejuvenating hormone-like chemicals and stimulating the brain’s own protective “growth factors.” Indirectly, you’re enhancing your metabolism and lowering inflammation in ways that benefit the brain as well as the rest of your body. Think of your muscles as the brain’s bodyguard, and I urge you to get into a strength training groove now so your future self can, as they live long and prosper.
Oct 10, 2025 · Health & WellnessHow Melatonin Reduces Inflammation
Melatonin does more than just regulate your sleep cycle — it also helps tamp down inflammation. Here's how.
Oct 8, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - What is an Antioxidant?
We hear the word "antioxidant" all the time – on food labels, supplement bottles, and wellness blogs. But what are antioxidants, and why do they matter?
Oct 6, 2025 · Healthy AgingGet the NAC: Anti-aging’s All-Purpose, Easy-to-Love Little Helper
It’s fairly common in medicine for a drug to be developed to treat one condition which then turns out to have broader application, however, pharma drugs, usually come with side-effects. But how about a supplement that has been used for decades to treat a number of conditions? And, one which subsequent research shows also pushes back against the basic processes that drive aging? And may also treat the diseases of aging that ultimately hobble or end most of our lives with negligible side-effects? That would be something, right? Well, if you’re not familiar, let me introduce you to N-Acetyl Cysteine or NAC.
Oct 3, 2025 · Health & WellnessHow AI Is Changing Health and Fitness
Health and fitness experts share their insights, concerns, and hopes for artificial intelligence.
Oct 1, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - The Benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is gaining attention in both medical and wellness circles for its remarkable ability to support healing, recovery, and longevity. But what exactly is HBOT, why is it beneficial – and who is it best for?
Sep 29, 2025 · Healthy AgingYour Resilience Prescription: 8 Smart Strategies for Creating Physical and Mental Longevity
Almost every day in the longevity world, a new discovery pops up and another exciting tool lands in our “longevity toolbox.” In just a few short years, advances have not only changed how we understand aging but have begun to reshape the process of aging itself. So, these days, aging feels less about fear and dread, and a lot more about “let’s do this vibrantly and well!” But amid all this progress, one of our most mission-critical “tools” isn’t a high-tech lab test or a breakthrough treatment. It’s resilience — the ability to bend without breaking, to take life’s hits and bounce back. Without it, even the most cutting-edge interventions can’t fully work their magic. So, cultivate it we must.
Sep 26, 2025 · Movement5 Great Reasons to Exercise Outdoors
Working out in any setting is good for you, but moving your body in nature can lower anxiety, improve concentration and creativity, and foster a deeper sense of connection and purpose.
Sep 24, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - The Benefits of Hot Springs
For centuries, cultures around the world, from Japan to Iceland, have turned to hot springs for their soothing and restorative effects. Modern science now confirms what ancient wisdom knew all along: hot springs are more than relaxation – they’re therapeutic.
Sep 22, 2025 · Healthy AgingDig Into Polyphenol’s, Nature’s Tastiest Anti-Aging Must-Have
In my longevity-focused practice, putting the brakes on aging so that people can stay healthy, strong, and vibrant for decades is my top priority. While I’ve got a deep bench of longevity strategies, one of my go-tos is also one of the best tasting -- polyphenols. They’re a large family of plant compounds found in colorful fruits and veggies, herbs, cocoa, tea, coffee, and extra-virgin olive oil, that give plants their flavor, color, and natural defenses – and in turn help protect you too. Done right, and enjoyed often, polyphenols are a mighty (and tasty) ally in your quest for a long, vibrant life.
Sep 19, 2025 · NutritionEnvironmental Working Group (EWG) Releases 2025 “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” Lists
Here are the most contaminated — and cleanest — fruits and veggies.
Sep 17, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - 5 Pilates Moves for Improved Posture
Here are five Pilates moves you can try to improve your posture.
Sep 15, 2025 · RelaxationChill Out with L-theanine: The Calming, Focus-Promoting Amino Acid
Making time for de-stressing time-outs is essential, and a non-negotiable healthy habit I encourage everyone to develop. But, sometimes, despite our best intentions, we can’t squeeze in that short meditation break. In order to take the edge off, many will reach for a powerful pharmaceutical like Xanax or Valium, but those meds come with a boat-load of possible scary side effects, with cognitive impairment, addiction and increased Alzheimer’s risk topping the list. So, what’s a safer way to calm your nerves and protect your health? Enter L-theanine. It’s my favorite all-natural, go-to “chill pill” you need to know about.
Sep 12, 2025 · Healthy AgingThe Science-Backed Longevity Secret: Nitric Oxide for Healthy Aging
Low Nitric Oxide may be accelerating your biological clock. Here's everything you need to know.
Sep 10, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - The Benefits of Pilates
Whether you’re an athlete, a desk worker, or simply looking to move with more ease, Pilates offers a wide range of benefits that support both physical and mental health.
Sep 8, 2025 · Healthy AgingSlow Aging With Your Built-in Anti-Ager, Autophagy
Although scientists have known about autophagy for decades, it's only in the last decade or so it’s found its way into the spotlight as one of the body’s most important tools for staying youthful and resilient. Once just a phrase buried in biology textbooks, autophagy is now at the front and center of longevity research, turning heads for its potential to slow aging, boost vitality, and reshape how we think about long-term health. One way to think of autophagy is as your body’s built-in cleanse-and-repair system, quietly working behind the scenes to help you feel sharper, stronger, and better equipped to handle whatever life throws your way.
Sep 5, 2025 · Health & WellnessWhat You Need to Know About the Male Pelvic Floor
Some of the most vexing health problems for men — including urological, reproductive, and orthopedic issues — can be traced to pelvic-floor dysfunction. Here’s how to keep this foundational set of muscles strong and healthy.
Sep 3, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Keep Your Health On Track
Troubleshooting is something we usually do at work for a computer problem or at home for the car… but the concept is easily applied to our personal health too. If your car starts making an unusual noise, you search for the source under the hood, looking for where it’s coming from and figuring out how to fix it.
Sep 1, 2025 · Healthy Aging6 Aging Myths to Stop Buying Into – So You Can Make Your Years Amazing!
Aging is a privilege. Every day we get to take a breath deserves our gratitude. Yes, the passing years may bring their share of physical quirks, but the doom-and-gloom narrative around aging? Overhyped, and in need of a serious rewrite. I’m not saying we’ll all be training to summit Everest deep into our 70s. But I am saying that aging doesn’t have to mean physical and mental collapse. Thanks to some recent waves of longevity research, sparked in part by Boomers and Gen Xers asking, “What if we don’t go gently into that good night?” we now know that many aging “facts” that generations have held dear are actually fiction.