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About The Age-Well Project


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This site is for anyone who wants to make the second half of their life as healthy, happy and disease-free as possible.

We’ve watched family members succumb to heart disease, cancer, dementia and diabetes and want to do everything we can to reduce our risk of suffering the same fate. For the last five years, we’ve immersed ourselves in the latest medical studies, radically overhauled our lives, and documented our findings here on this blog.

The Age-Well Project documents everything we’ve discovered along the way, and how we’ve applied it to busy lives which include full-time careers, raising six children and caring for several elderly parents. So please join us as we try to age well: we can all change the way we age. This is where you find out how.

ABOUT ME – ANNABEL

I’m a writer and author (under the name Annabel Abbs) withannabel four children (aged 13-21).  My passion for food and nutritional knowledge go back almost three decades. By the time I reached the age of 25, I’d been diagnosed with an incurable inflammatory disease, watched my grandfather die of cancer just weeks after retiring, seen my grandmother succumb to dementia and rheumatoid arthritis so crippling she could no longer move her legs or her hands – and I’d been a finalist in the Elle Magazine Cook of the Year competition.  My novels (The Joyce Girl and Frieda: The Original Lady Chatterley) have won awards, been a Times Book of the Year, and sold in over 20 countries. I’ve written for many publications and am currently writing a book about walking.

 

ABOUT ME – SUSAN

I’m a health coach, author and TV producer. My elderly mum suffered severe dementia for over 12 years until her death late in 2015. Caring for her, while raising a family and having a career, was very hard. Writing The Age-Well Project inspired me to qualify as a coach so I can help post-menopausal women age well. I’ve recently completed a further qualification with Dr Dale Bredesen’s team. Dr Bredesen is a leading authority on Alzheimer’s Disease, and author of The End of Alzheimer’s Programme.

This means I can help you build a life that reduces your dementia risk. So you can live in confidence that you’re doing the best for your brain and Alzheimer’s prevention. If you’d like to know more, email me at hello@susansaundershealth.com with the word ‘interested’ in the subject line and I’ll send you a pdf outlining how my one-to-one coaching programme works.

Want my delicious three-day age-well menu plan and recipes? Sign up at susansaundershealth.com

 

ABOUT AGEING WELL

We’re fed up with all the talk about anti-ageing! You can’t fight ageing … it happens to everything and everyone, always has and always will.  Instead, we think ageing should be accepted and enjoyed.  But to really enjoy our old age, we need to be as healthy as possible.  Healthy ageing is about taking control of your life, preparing your mind and body for what should be the best years of your life.  We don’t want to be younger!  Not for all the goji berries in China would we turn the clock back to our angst-ridden teens, our penniless and hung-over twenties, our exhausted child-bearing thirties, our stressed-out sandwich women forties.  We love being in our fifties and we have every intention of loving our sixties, seventies and beyond!

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Welcome to The Age-Well Project

Welcome to The Age-Well Project!
Here you’ll find easy changes for a longer, happier life. We’ve immersed ourselves in the science of longevity and distilled the research to make it work in our everyday lives. You can change the way you age: here’s how.

Favourite Posts

WHY I’VE THROWN OUT ALL MY BEAUTY PRODUCTS (nearly…)

Why Alzheimer’s Is A Women’s Issue

HOW HAVING A DOG CHANGED MY LIFE

GREEN SPACE IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH

SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, SADNESS AND BRAIN-BOOSTING BISCUITS

WHY ‘INFLAMM-AGEING’ COULD START IN THE GUT AND HARISSA-ROASTED VEGETABLE SALAD

POLYAMINES – THE NEW SECRET WEAPON FOR AGEING WELL & MOROCCAN SPINACH AND CHICKPEAS.

THINNING AGEING HAIR – WARM CHICKEN LIVER SALAD

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We all want plenty of ‘energy’ but what does t We all want plenty of ‘energy’ but what does that mean?

We’ve got the low down over the blog - what is energy and how we get more?!? 

We’re covering:

🥗The nutrition we need to fuel our mitochondria (the ‘batteries’ of our cells)

⚡️The ‘good stress’ (hormesis) that creates more energy 

🧘‍♀️The importance of breath work 

😴Why we need to rest 

and 

👩‍🍳A whole load of great recipes 

It’s all on the blog - link in bio 

#agewell #ageingwell #agingwell #longevity #womenover50 #postmenopause #fitover50 #over50 #over50blogger #energy #mitochondria #hormesis #breathwork #wimhof #hypoxictraining #hypoxia #pranayama #wakefulrest #rest #womenwhowalk #selfcare #healthyrecipes
We spend a lot of time suggesting that you get up We spend a lot of time suggesting that you get up and move 🏃‍♀️🚶‍♀️💃 But we were fascinated by recent research into the power of ‘wakeful rest’, particularly if we rock while we do it. 

It seems Granny and her rocking chair were right all along - rockers sleep better. Hammocks are great too, as Annabel is demonstrating here!

And students who take some time to rest after learning something new consolidate their new knowledge better than people who go to sleep, or just get on with their lives. And it seems ten minutes of down-time is enough to deeply embed new memories.

So now we’re rocking and resting! There’s more on the blog - link in bio

#agewell #ageingwell #agingwell #healthblog #longevity #longevityblog #healthyageing #healthyaging #fitover50 #postmenopause #healthyeating #rest #hammock #rockingchair #powernap #memories #dementia #alzheimers
We are delighted to announce that Annabel now has We are delighted to announce that Annabel now has a regular column in @psychologiesmagazine with her first column in the July issue (out now) on the joys of following a river. Grab a copy and find out why following a river was the walk of choice for our female ancestors … 

#agewell #walk #walking
A bottle of beer a day can improve our microbiome A bottle of beer a day can improve our microbiome according to new research published by the @amerchemsociety.  Four weeks of a daily lager (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) improved intestinal health without impacting weight, the researchers speculate that the additional bacteria produced by fermentation might positively interact with the polyphenols contained in lager to enrich the gut. Good news for beer drinkers!  We’re fans of alcohol free beers, particularly on hot days… like this dainty bottle from @brewdogofficial 

#agewell
Isn’t she ageing well?! Yes, yes, we know our Qu Isn’t she ageing well?! Yes, yes, we know our Queen has incredible advantages when it comes to longevity: palaces, retinues of staff, the country’s best doctors…. but there are longevity lessons we can all learn from Her Majesty as we head into the Platinum Jubilee bank holiday weekend 🇬🇧👑🇬🇧

So a trumpet voluntary, please, for our right royal Age-Well celebration….

It’s all on the blog - link in bio 

#agewell #ageingwell #agingwell #healthblog #longevity #longevityblog #jubilee #platinumjubilee #nonagenarian #healthyageing #healthyaging #fitover50 #postmenopause #senseofpurpose #healthyeating #dopaminedressing #queenelizabeth 

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