The Age-Well Project - Change the way you age

IS IT ACTUALLY POSSIBLE TO REVERSE AGEING?

We’re back! We love the summer but are keen to get cracking with autumn projects – researching a new book on post-menopausal health for me, a book on the less-known benefits of walking for Annabel. But just because we haven’t been posting, it doesn’t mean we haven’t been keeping up with our usual trawl of...

WHY THE TIMING OF OUR EATING AND MOVING MATTERS

No sooner have we mastered exercise and eating – by which I mean we’re eating the rainbow, walking daily and lifting a few weights – than those pesky scientists discover it’s timing that matters. OK I exaggerate. But recent studies suggest that when we move is almost as important as how we move, with new...

ALZHEIMERS: THE LATEST RESEARCH YOU NEED TO KNOW

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that the starting point for my own Age-Well Project was my mother’s diagnosis with dementia 18 years ago. At that point, there was no effective medication or treatment, I simply had to watch her decline for the next 12 years, while trying to provide...

HOW TO LIVE TO (NEARLY) 99 IN FULL HEALTH…

We’ve written before about the remarkable power of art to fuel our brains. Not only does it nourish our imagination, but looking at art has been found to activate critical parts of our brain, helping fend off cognitive decline and dementia. Actually making art brings additional benefits, reducing stress (and the inflammation kindled by stress)...

TAKE YOUR EYES FOR A WALK

How are your eyes? Your night vision? Your short-range sight? Eye experts now predict that by 2050, half of the world’s population will suffer from myopia. Sixteen months of living, working and learning on screens has exacerbated our deteriorating eyesight. One poll found that 38% of Britons believed their eye sight had worsened as a...