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As regular readers know, Federal Holidays mean a day off from our weekly health and fitness emails. HAPPY LABOR DAY! Last Wednesday at 7 a.m. the MRI technologist efficiently, patiently and professionally inserted my right shoulder under the camera so an exact diagnostic image could be obtained of torn biceps tendon and rotator cuff. I […]

Last March a close friend suffered a stroke which left her physically incapacitated and cognitively impaired. She died last week. Today I am word-for-word sharing a Harvard Health Publishing, August 18, 2022, article, by Robert H Shmerling, MD, Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing, entitled How good is your cardiometabolic health — and what is

A definition for our Dodging A Bullet title is…”manage to avoid a difficult or unwelcome situation.“ Today we talk about not being able to dodge wear-and-tear bullets or joint injury that can afflict both active and sedentary individuals. (Interesting that I chose this topic before additional shredding last week of an already-damaged biceps tendon and

Today’s post will be fast. I’m on the chemistry (not my background!) research hunt for sirtuins, myokines and other molecular items which regulate obesity and contribute to longevity. A partial definition of sirtuins from the Biogerontology article, Sirtuins, a promising target in slowing down the ageing process. “….it was documented that proper lifestyle including physical

The word “Hormesis” first came to my attention while reading the book Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying) by Bill Gifford. Fast forward a few years and an in-depth discussion of Hormesis with similar concept of Eustress showed up in the book Deep Fitness: The Mindful, Science-Based Strength-Training Method to Transform Your Well-Being

Welcome to August! In earth’s Northern Hemisphere, August generally can mean hot, hot Summer days.Sometimes heat separates us due to frayed and fried temperaments. However, a Healthy, Happy Life dictates that we use August for forging bonds, as we see in our sketch below. While driving to teach my Essentrics® Aging Backwards class last Friday,

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.* Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How many ways can we say Diet and Exercise framework life’s well-being? Juxtapositioning the English language sublime words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43* with the cartoon nutrition image shown above may seem counterintuitive. Yet appreciating and participating in

Life is a Journey, not a Destination – wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his book Self-Reliance. Not to argue with a literary genius such as Emerson…but for our day-to-day Health and Fitness Purpose….Destination Out-Performs Journey. Even though wandering can be fun as in the children’s game shown above, it is Destination that gives a Metabolic

According to Alicia Machado, former Miss Universe…Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime. As years pass, we know that for a few of us the mind, the brain, could slip. One of Life’s great gifts, though, is that we can create new brain cells. How? Through our good friend – EXERCISE!

Happy 4th of July, All. In celebrating our personal freedoms, I’d like to re-send FREE Physical Mobility Streaming classes which most of you should have received yesterday. This link was sent to instructors by Miranda Esmonde-White and the Essentrics® team who produce the Classical Stretch® programs which have been featured since the late 1990s on