You’ve probably seen organic skincare products. There are cleansers, moisturizers and all kinds of creams and lotions made without pesticides or strange chemicals, and with any animal products coming from animals that lived relatively happy and natural lives. You may choose organic because you want to be more careful about what goes into your body, […]
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We eat chiefly to stay alive. We prefer to have good-tasting food, but the first concern is our immediate survival. Food serves lots of other purposes, however, including being important to not just how long we live but whether we enjoy a good quality of life. Aging comes with lots of side effects, both physical
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You’re probably sick of hearing me say it, but exercise (along with diet) is one of the two most fundamental things you need to stay healthy. Whatever other radical steps you might try to take or shortcuts you try to find, eventually it always comes back to those two things. It might be frustrating, but
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You may have heard that people in Japan have the best life expectancies in the world. Not only do they live longer than everyone else, but they tend to stay in good health, even in old age. This means that even their centenarians have pretty impressive mobility and flexibility. If you want to emulate them,
You may be on good terms with your neighbors, or you may try avoiding them. I know from experience that living next door to someone doesn’t mean you like them. The people around you, however, can be important to your overall health. When people who live in the same area start experiencing the same health
Why? That’s the question I often ask myself in the middle of a particularly hard workout. Why am I doing this? When your body feels like nothing but sweat and pain, it can be hard to remember that there’s a point to it all. One of the biggest challenges when it comes to exercise isn’t
What do you think of when you think about mobility? Do you think of physical performance and whether your limbs and joints move as they should? Do you think about how you get to place to place? Or do you think about less tangible concepts, like social mobility? Life is defined by how we move,
Hormones take the blame for a lot of things, from mood swings to unfair athletic competitions. However, we all have hormones and we wouldn’t be able to function without them. If you want to be at your best each day, you need to have some idea of how they work and which ones are most
