⭑ Looking outside yourself helps you live longer ✔ Science found it so⭑ Good carbs are your friend in middle age ✔ Especially for women⭑ Sore knees should not stop you exercising ✔ Do this⭑ The exercise, done well, will ease your lower pain ✔ Check the fine points All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. We intuitively know that having some sense of purpose keeps people going for longer, or at the least they enjoy a longer healthspan. A study of 13,000...
7 days ago • 7 min read
⭑ Zombie cell killers ✔ Capers, onions, oranges, chocolate and blueberries⭑ Only deep sleep clears out cellular garbage ✔ Try for more of it⭑ Poor sight is linked with higher risk of dementia ✔ Do this⭑ Deep squats safely, seniors benefit most ✔ How to do them and why All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. Reading about shingles sends a shiver up my spine, so I had a shingles vaccination yesterday. Now I have some muscle aches and headache but nothing...
14 days ago • 6 min read
⭑ Healthspan is king - but it is falling ✔ Compared to longevity⭑ Do this simple treadmill exercise to improve your balance ✔ Less falls⭑ Turns out that resistance training helps your brain resist decline ✔ Do this⭑ Stretch your hip flexors and reduce your knee pain ✔ Everything's connected All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. Australia's federal election is now over, votes counted, and the incumbent government retained power despite being out of...
21 days ago • 6 min read
⭑ Exercising keeps you more alert ✔ Compared to those that don't exercise⭑ Spreading your protein over the day boost your gut health ✔ New research⭑ Exercise plus wheatgerm or mushrooms combats muscle loss ✔ Do both⭑ Nordic pole walking is a big calorie burner ✔ Here's how to get started All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. It's the Federal election weekend in Australia. To my surprise both dominant parties have been in a race to the middle...
28 days ago • 8 min read
⭑ Heard you need to ‘take it easy’ after 50? ✔ Let's challenge this myth All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active and that you had a great Easter break. Today's newsletter is another one-subject myth-buster. How often have you seen "over-50s" fitness plans promoted as if you need something different to before 50? It assumes that over-50s require a completely different, often less intense, “age-specific” exercise plan due solely to their age. This...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
⭑ Time under eccentric tension ✔ Your secret to stronger muscles⭑ Blueberries boost gut health, and more ✔ Eat with yoghurt for 2X⭑ Bad vision busts your brain! ✔ Why it accelerates dementia⭑ Breath deep - it calms SEALS and it can calm you ✔ Here's how All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. It still seems like summer down here in Melbourne and yet we're into Autumn. It's not hot but it's warm and dry. One of many topsy-turvy things happening in the...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
⭑ Retraining your body to burn fat helps you live longer ✔ Try this⭑ Omega 3 slows aging, says large validated study ✔ Worth a try with real food⭑ The brain cleanup crew - ketones! ✔ Here's how it’s not too hard⭑ Brief bursts of exercise yield disproportionate gains - WHO research All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. I found one myth-debunking piece of research this week, which always grabs my attention, and then lo and behold another popped up....
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
⭑ Too big to ignore ✔ 30 year study of 100,000+ people⭑ How to make your diet changes stick ✔ What I've learnt⭑ Why now? ✔ Now is always the best time to start to improve your longevity⭑ 6-month plan - one step at a time All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. Today's newsletter is a one-topic format, because the results of a 30-year study of diet and healthspan can’t be ignored. Let's face it, most of us don’t change except in response to a threat,...
2 months ago • 4 min read
⭑ These 3 seeds carry some big metabolic benefits ✔ Add them daily⭑ Put your snacking on the backburner by eating 2 foods ✔ Stay feeling full⭑ Sore shin muscles can be relieved and avoided with this warm-up ✔⭑ Weak calves are the source of many aches and pains - strength them All strength to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hello, I trust you are well and active. Marketing guru Gary Vaynerchuk's advice to people wanting to blog or write a book is "document your life or work, give people a...
2 months ago • 8 min read