aging Archives - Experience Life

- Fitness Tips -

The Real-Fitness Manifesto

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Our best fitness tips to help you move well, recover fully, and achieve your fittest life.

- Nutrition -

The Care and Feeding of Your Mitochondria

By Pamela Weintraub

They’re essential to energy, focus, vitality, and metabolism. And yet most of us have no idea how our mitochondria work. Here’s how to tune up your body’s quadrillions of “energy factories” and avoid mitochondrial dysfunction.

- Aging -

Healthy Heart = Healthy Brain for Seniors?

By Craig Cox

Tending to your cardiovascular health may ward off dementia in seniors, a recent study says.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: Home Free

By Craig Cox

The nursing-home industry is suffering through an unprecedented decline as elderly Americans are increasingly opting for home- and community-based options.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: Requiem for a Handyman

By Craig Cox

Age and (relative) affluence have cut into my DIY opportunities, a development that has bruised my ego but may keep me out of the hospital.

- Aging -

Polypharmacy: The Other Drug Crisis

By Kaelyn Riley

Why elderly Americans are on multiple prescription drugs.

- Aging -

PUMPING IRONY: Lift and Learn

By Craig Cox

I may have to adjust my opinion of bodybuilders after new research suggests resistance training strengthens the aging brain.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: Stop and Smell the Broccoli

By Craig Cox

New research suggests that a reduced-calorie diet can extend your lifespan — but only if you take a whiff of what’s on your plate.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: Gut Instincts

By Craig Cox

New research suggests we can live longer by altering conditions in our microbiome, but who wants to spend a few extra years fixating on their bowels?

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: Just Call Me Gramps

By Craig Cox

What does it mean to be a grandparent today? I’m about to find out.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: The Wine of Youth

By Craig Cox

For more than a decade, we’ve been led to believe that the fruit of the vine may extend our life span. New research suggests it may be a bit more complicated than that.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: The Heart of the Matter

By Craig Cox

A new study suggests the simple, heart-healthy lifestyle of an indigenous Bolivian people offers a prescription for a longer life. It doesn’t work like that.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

By Craig Cox

The story of a brilliant nonagenarian reminds us that creativity is less about inspiration than perspiration.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: A Toothless Solution

By Craig Cox

Because Medicare doesn’t cover dental work, millions of geezers are avoiding the dentist’s chair. The result is a major oral-health crisis, which dentists are doing little to solve.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: All or Nothing

By Craig Cox

Once I overcome the inertia that’s been keeping me out of the gym, I’m really going to go all out. Really.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: The Secret of “Super-Agers”

By Craig Cox

The aging brain thrives on a healthy diet and vigorous exercise, but the real key to long-term mental acuity may simply depend on a roll of the genetic dice.

- Aging -

Fearless Aging

By Jon Spayde

Stereotypes about getting older can make a natural process stressful. Here’s how to stop those negative messages from clouding the years ahead.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: A Stroke of Luck

By Craig Cox

It seems I was born into a mini-generation of boomers that is less susceptible to brain attacks than younger folks, a fact that I find more ironic than reassuring.