How to Keep Your Bones Healthy
Your structural frame, the thing that defines your body shape, consists of bones. That makes them important to how you move. Are your bones as dense as they could be? Are you doing anything...
Aging Intelligently: Thoughts for the curious
How Old Are You, Really?
We tend to think of getting old as linear age. It comes at the end of our lives. We’re getting older every day, and eventually we get old. Then, I suppose, we die. In...
How Can Dancing Reduce Alzheimer’s?
Dance is a gift that goes beyond barre work, leotards, and a sense of rhythm. It is one of the most freeing forms of expression and emotion. In addition, people who move more, dancing...
Two Ideas to Increase Your Balance
I used to have good balance, when I was young. Now my balance is awful, and one side is worse than the other. Must be me, aging. Is that you, rationalizing? It’s a common...
Hippopotamus, Hippocampus
Lizards grow new tails when theirs is lost due to pretators. Sea cucumbers, when cut into pieces, will grow into separate, new sea cucumbers. Sharks can grow new teeth. But we, as humans, cannot...
How Water Creates Health
Most people think that they drink enough water, but when measured, they find that they drink significantly less than they think. We have the same misconception about thirst. We think we need water only...
Stop Apologizing; I’m Not Listening
Every year my dad piled all of us into a station wagon and drove from California to Florida to visit his and my mother’s family. My sisters and myself thought it was a lark:...
Dings or Drama?
The more you think about something, the stronger that vision becomes. Consider your next vacation, the excitement of a new baby, or the fear of scary rides at an amusement park. Now consider pain. It...
How To Increase Good Posture
People judge us, based on how we initially present ourselves. If might not be fair, but there it is. Someone at the opera, wearing a buff-dude (without being a buff-dude) under-shirt, flip flops, and...
How Gratitude Affects Aging
When I arrived at the bakery yesterday morning, I was informed that they had not made any 8” pumpkin pies for the holidays. Instead, for the same price, I would receive a 10” pie. I...