The Age-Well Project

The secrets of Swedish longevity – and how we’re all ageing now

Annabel and I went to Stockholm last weekend. What a beautiful city! It was a long-planned trip to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the book group we belong to. 20 years is a lot of books – and a lot of talking! Six of us met up in Stockholm (one of our number is Swedish)....

EAT WILD, TAKE A MULTIVITAMIN…

Have you been following the Wildbiome Project? It’s an extraordinary Citizen Science experiment revealing what happens to the body when we forego all ‘bought’ food and eat only wild food, as our ancestors once did. As someone fascinated by how the body responds (to everything, from sleeplessness to movement to landscape and, yes, to food…...

HOW TO IMPROVE MEMORY, REDUCE INFLAMMATION, CUT CANCER RISK, AND WHY TRACKING COULD HARM YOUR HEALTH

Come Walk With Me First things first, the 2025 London Festival of Walking is hosting a free conference (2 May) on strolling, featuring the neuroscientist, Professor Shane O’Mara, and yours truly (that’s me, Annabel). If you’re interested in the biology, neuroscience, politics or simply the joys, of walking, you can claim a place by registering...

IS IT POSSIBLE TO REVERSE GREY HAIR?

I’ve written before about my early greying – and I do mean early, I found my first grey hair at 16. More recently I’ve come to terms with my ‘silver sparkles’, after years of dyeing them away. Technically, there’s no such thing as ‘grey’ hair. What we see as grey is a mixture of translucent,...

THE POWER OF WOODLANDS, WALKING SLOWLY AND YOGURT

In the last couple of weeks I’ve done dozens of interviews on the subject of walking and landscape (I’ve got lots of guided walks and talks coming up for anyone interested in the transformative power of place – scroll to the end for more details). And the one question I often get asked is ‘How...