The Age-Well Project

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...

Are we living longer and better, or not?

How long we live, and how well we age, are determined by an array of factors, we know. There are the ones we have some control over, like lifestyle (which is why Annabel and I started this blog, almost 11 years ago!). And the ones we can’t control: genetics, health care provision, socio economic status,...

THE MYSTERIOUS BENEFITS OF LANDSCAPE AND A WEEKEND OFFER

Greetings from the snow and the mountains! I’m still yomping up and down peaks and valleys, through ice and snow, thanks to my crampons/spikes/yaktrax/cleats. These wonderful things should be given out to anyone worried about walking (or slipping) on ice. Hip fractures kill a shocking 20-60% of older adults within a year. Resistance training can...

MODERATION, MODERATION, MODERATION

I’m high in the Alps this month on an artists’ residency. While the other artists are busily in their studios painting, drawing and stitching, I’m doing most of my work on foot, clambering up and down mountains as I pull together thoughts for a future book. I was feeling very virtuous about all this exercise...