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WHY YOUR SENSE OF SMELL MATTERS

How’s your sense of smell? In the recent – and ongoing – COVID crisis, our ability to smell (or not) has become one of the key indicators of whether we might have the virus. Indeed, the latest studies suggest that smell tests would be more effective than temperature tests in gaging who has and who...

HOME HEALTH TESTS, OMEGA-3s AND AN AGEING WELL WEBINAR

Blood all over the kitchen, multiple stab wounds and a lot of swearing – no, not a crime scene but husband and I trying to take an at-home health check recently. Here at The Age-Well Project we’re always interested in monitoring our wellbeing, and I’d been keen to try a DIY test for a while....

HOW TO BUILD MUSCLE ON THE SLY – AND WHY

18 months ago I was boarding a train to Scotland, when something life-changing happened. It was one of those small quiet moments of epiphany, an everyday moment but one that left me dazed and shaken. The train was very full (remember those days?) and the only place for my small-ish suitcase was in the overhead...

HOW TO EXERCISE, NORWEGIAN STYLE

A few of you have kindly asked after the health of our superagers – the five remarkable nonagenarians we featured in our first book, The Age-Well Project. I’ve managed to catch up with most of them and I’m delighted to report that all are still alive and well, albeit nearly three years older than they...

Answering your most frequently-asked questions – and a giveaway

A huge thank you to everyone who came to my ‘Feel Great: Age Well’ webinar last month. It felt very special to launch The Age-Well Plan with our warm and wonderful community here. And if it wasn’t the In Real Life event I’d hoped for at the beginning of the year, it was lovely to...