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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 AgingResilience: The Longevity Superpower You Can Build at Any Age
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.
Aug 29, 2025 · SleepSleep Routines With Dr. Alexandra Davidson: Creating Rest Rituals That Actually Work
Discover the ultimate sleep routine from Eleven Eleven's own nurse practitioner Dr. Alexandra Davidson, in collaboration with Rani lounge.
Aug 27, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - All About Choline
Choline is an essential nutrient found in high amounts in eggs, red meat and liver. Many people do not meet the recommended intake. Choline helps with liver function, brain function (memory), heart health, detoxification and the nervous system, and more. It is also essential for cell membranes.
Aug 25, 2025 · Healthy AgingMore than Just Fun and Games: 5 Ways Social Connection Supports Longevity
When we think about living a long and healthy life, we tend to focus on the usual suspects: eating well, exercising, sleeping enough, managing stress. All, very important stuff. But one powerful pillar often gets overlooked—human connection. It turns out that meaningful relationships are just as essential as veggies and regular movement. That’s why I encourage my patients to rekindle connections, nurture the good ones they already have, and stay open to new ones. Sure, it’s easier to hibernate—but, if you want to live longer and healthier, it’s time to shake things up socially.
Aug 22, 2025 · Health & WellnessThe Many Benefits of Spontaneity — and How to Cultivate More of It
It’s easy to sabotage our efforts by trying too hard, especially when we really want something. The Chinese concept of wu-wei suggests the alternative approach of being in the moment.
Aug 20, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Are You Getting Your 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.
Aug 18, 2025 · Healthy AgingGlutathione and Longevity: The Antioxidant That Supports Strength and Health
Often called the body’s “master antioxidant,” glutathione takes care of a lot of body business: protecting your cells, supporting detoxification, keeping your immune system humming, and just possibly helping to slow the hands of time (yes, please!). What’s more, your body makes it all by itself. But — and it’s a big but — under certain fairly common circumstances, production can start to sputter. Classic health-eroders like aging, stress, poor diet, and toxic exposure, either on their own or in combo, can all chip away at your natural supply, setting the stage for fatigue and disease far too early in life. Your mission? To keep your tank topped up.
Aug 15, 2025 · MovementHow Exercise Can Help Heal Trauma
Discover how trauma-therapy exercise can support healing and improve mental well-being.
Aug 13, 2025 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Mindfulness Exercise For Walkers
Whether you decide to set aside time to go for a walk, or you are going to be walking to run errands – you can bring mindfulness into it. Mindfulness improves stress levels, brain health, heart health, pain, sleep, GI issues and more. Here is a walking mindfulness activity that you can do if you have a 5 minute or a 45 minute walk ahead:
Aug 11, 2025 · Healthy Aging6 Ways Metabolism Can Keep You Younger Longer – or If Done Wrong, Can Age You Faster
We are all aging, but we all seem to do it at different rates. For instance, one friend might pass for a decade younger and another, well, let’s just say, may present somewhat older than their chronological age. So, what’s going on? Sure, genetics plays a role but to a large degree, as the research of the past decade has made plain, the aging process is driven by metabolism. When our metabolism is working the way nature intended it to, we’re on track to live hale and hearty lives into our 80s and maybe beyond. When it’s not, metabolism becomes the driver –often the main one – behind the classic “diseases of aging” – that can rob you of countless good years as you age.