Healthy Aging
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PUMPING IRONY: Great Expectations
It can often seem naïve — or even foolish — to harbor high hopes for life in our later years, but recent research suggests doing so may help to ensure a healthier and happier future.
Does Nitric Oxide Help With Healthy Aging?
Learn more about nitric oxide and how it can help prevent age-related declines.
Hormone Health and Longevity: Making the Connection
Learn how hormones change as we age, as well as how to safely optimize them to benefit health, as well as improve longevity.
PUMPING IRONY: Formulas for Frailty
New research suggests that my general aversion to socializing may contribute to a frail future — despite my well-intentioned commitment to strength training.
3 Reasons to Try Pilates for Healthy Aging
How this exercise modality can help you move better for longer.
GLP-1s, Weight Loss, and Health: A Panel Discussion With Life Time’s MIORA Leaders
Learn how GLP-1s can safely and strategically be used to support your health and weight-loss goals while also promoting overall wellness.
7 Ways to Keep Your Hands Looking Youthful
Skincare experts on why the skin on our hands ages more quickly — and seven tips to help improve their appearance.
8 Powerful Ways Exercise Benefits the Brain
The benefits of physical activity are more than muscle-deep. Moving your body builds and conditions your gray matter, making you smarter, happier, and more resilient.
A Story of Lifelong Curiosity: Learn, Dream, and Imagine
Learning is not something to be limited to our school-age years — if we can be curious and find new ways to learn, dream, imagine, and try throughout our lives, then we stand to be happier and more fulfilled in the long run.
4 Expert Tips for Healthy Aging
The body does change over time. These suggestions from integrative physician Frank Lipman, MD, can help you adjust your behaviors with the goal of maintaining your best possible health.
How to Become a Pro-Ager
How we talk and think about growing old can significantly affect our ability to maintain our health as we age. Here’s why.
Listen Up: Why Taking Care of Your Hearing Health Matters
One in four people are projected to have some degree of hearing loss by 2025, according to the World Health Organization — and hearing loss is connected to several deeper health impacts, including cognitive decline and cardiovascular function.
A Clearer View of Health: A Guide to Understanding Comprehensive Bloodwork
Learn about some additional blood markers you can have tested beyond the traditional panels and why they matter for painting a more complete picture of your current state of your health.
Do We Really Slow Down As We Age?
Studies of elite masters endurance athletes indicate it may not be age that slows us down but rather a drop in physical activity.
How to Balance Your Hormones as You Age
Supplementing with exogenous hormones — think testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone — for age-related concerns has become commonplace. Here’s what to know about hormone therapies and their broader effects on health.
PUMPING IRONY: Boomers on a Binge
Alcohol-related deaths have been rising at an alarming rate among American seniors, who may be unaware of the risks. And while some countries are taking steps to curb consumption, U.S. regulators seem perfectly comfortable with the status quo.
7 Supplements for Healthy Aging
A Life Time dietitian shares the top supplements recommended for older adults.
Why Is Colon Cancer on the Rise Among Younger Adults?
Cases of colorectal cancer are declining among those over 50, but the disease is becoming more prevalent among younger Americans. Prominent functional-medicine physician Gregory Plotnikoff discusses the trend — and offers preventive measures we can all take.
Just Keep Moving: 5 Tips for Easing Back Into Fitness After Surgery
An ARORA-certified Dynamic Personal Trainer offers recommendations for safely returning to exercise.
3 Common Myths About Nutrition for Older Adults
A Life Time registered dietitian busts a few misconceptions about healthy nutrition as you age.
PUMPING IRONY: There’s an App for That — or Is There?
Fitness trackers have long been promoted as effective tools for monitoring key health metrics, but seniors have mostly ignored them. Recent research explains why