Danny Lennon's latest podcast looks at healthy aging with Professor Charlyn Black.
There is little that is new here in terms of WHAT we should be addressing - diet, exercise, sleep, stress, loss of hearing etc... But there are some excellent new insights into more recent research such as that upto 45% of dementia cases are linked to modifiable lifestyle factors.
Who would have thought an "Aldi-brand Faberge egg" would articulate so much sense? There is a reason why you both should and shouldn't start with episode two, you maniac.
Very funny and rather insightful.
The New York Times warns that nearly half of older adults are at risk of becoming frail. Frailty is evaluated on five key traits: weakness, slowness, exhaustion, physical inactivity and unintentional weight loss.
The creeping sedentarism of modern life is a growing menace which will assuredly get worse. Sure I love Netflix box sets like the next person, and everything from a dish washer, TV remote, and a microwave has a place in my house.
But home-working two floors above the kitchen ensures several hundred feet of climbing happen each day. Food shopping is done occasionally on foot. I will sit on the ground to watch TV and occasionally get up non-handed from a cross-legged position. I tend to be barefoot or just in socks around the house.
It is unnoticeably weird. It is vitally important. Bake it in to your daily life.
Lock in for something wonderful!
In BBC World Service's six-part series The Compass, Vybarr Cregan-Reid looks at the disconnect between our bodies and our lived environment.
The paleo concept continues to inspire. I've dipped a barefoot toe back into the scene and some incredibly eloquent proponents have come to the fore. Vybarr Cregan-Reid is one such person.
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