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WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT SELENIUM?

April 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

The talk in geroscience circles over the last fortnight has been all about selenium: can selenium supplements give us the longer healthier life we want?  The excitement was sparked by an experiment that found mice given selenium supplements had an improved health span (a longer disease-free period at the end of their lives). How does… 

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OUR 12 COMMANDMENTS FOR AGEING WELL, PRINCE PHILIP AND MORE

April 11, 2021 2 Comments

The team at Noon – a new online platform for women in midlife and beyond – recently asked us for our manifesto on ageing well and our top 10 tips. We couldn’t keep it to 10, but did manage to whittle the list down to 12. If you’ve recently signed up after reading about us on… 

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MYSTERIOUS REASONS FOR WORKING OUR MUSCLES

April 2, 2021 2 Comments

A doctor friend recently messaged me to check I was still doing the odd plank or lifting the occasional weight.  I confessed that I’d missed a few days in the aftermath of my father’s death. But explained that I’d also felt a strange compulsion to do bicep curls as I grieved. Lifting weights, I added,… 

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HOME-COOKING, EGGY MUFFINS AND EASTER RECIPES!

March 26, 2021 4 Comments

Spring is springing and Sunday brings one of my favourite days of the year – right up there with my birthday  – Daylight Saving. I love the clocks going forward, bringing lighter evenings and the promise of warmer days ahead. The move into spring, and the approach of the Easter break, is particularly pertinent this… 

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BOOST THE COVID JAB (HOPEFULLY!) AND A FREE MASTERCLASS

March 18, 2021 4 Comments

“Have you been called yet?” That’s the question echoing among friends and family at the moment. Here in the UK, we eagerly await our first or second Covid vaccine, and with it – we hope – the start of a return to a life more like the one we remember, pre-pandemic. Debate still ranges about… 

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COULD WINTER SEA SWIMMING LIFT YOUR MOOD?

March 7, 2021 Leave a Comment

Last week Teenage Daughter asked me to go for a sea swim with her.  It was February. It was cold. I had just rolled out of my deliciously warm bed. But having spent the last year saying ‘No’ to all her requests (Can I see a friend? No. Can I go out? No. Can I… 

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THE BODY ON GRIEF

February 18, 2021 65 Comments

The pandemic has been a testing time for all of us. But for me and my family, our darkest ‘hour’ came in December. We lost two of the most important men in our lives: my almost-step-father died after a long illness in a distant nursing home, unable to see family or friends; a week after… 

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WHAT ALL NEUROSCIENTISTS EAT TO PROTECT THEIR BRAINS AND AN EAT WELL TO AGE WELL COURSE

February 10, 2021 Leave a Comment

Why do neuroscientists all eat berries? Whenever we listen to talks about lifestyle by brain experts, or interview them ourselves for our books, they reveal that they eat berries – with blueberries often top of the list. We know that the dark purple colour of blueberries (and blackcurrants, blackberries etc) comes from flavonoids, the deep… 

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WHAT IF THERE WAS ONE VITAMIN THAT SLOWS AGEING? AND A LONGEVITY-BOOSTING RECIPE

January 29, 2021 Leave a Comment

Wouldn’t it be lovely if there was just one thing we could do, one food to eat or one supplement to take which would slow down ageing? It would make everything so simple. But ageing is such a complex process that one quick fix is as likely as flying pigs. There has, however, been a… 

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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR BODY AS YOU AGE, AND A BRAIN HEALTH MASTERCLASS

January 16, 2021 9 Comments

Hi there, how are you feeling? I was so hoping that 2021 would be a fresh start for us all, but here we are (in the UK at least) back in lockdown and facing a rather grim first few months of the year. So I’ve been looking at fresh starts in other ways – not… 

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Fascinating and entertaining evening @how.to.acade Fascinating and entertaining evening @how.to.academy listening to author of Life Lessons From a Brain Surgeon  @drjandial discuss ‘how to rewire your brain’. The Age-Well take away? 1️⃣ skip breakfast three times a week 2️⃣ meditate and breathe deeply 3️⃣ eat lots of omega-3 fats from oily fish and plants 4️⃣ exercise a bit more 5️⃣ challenge your brain three times a week. I’ll do a detailed blog post on this soon!
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