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To menopause and beyond! Bodies, brains (and beetroot hummus)

May 25, 2021 2 Comments

In the last couple of weeks, our social media feeds – and real-life conversations – have exploded with discussion about the menopause in the wake of Davina McCall’s documentary on Channel 4, Sex, Myths and the Menopause. If you missed it, there’s a link here. The programme is a brilliantly-made polemic about how healthcare providers,… 

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MEMORY, MOVEMENT, MUSHROOMS AND MORE

May 14, 2021 8 Comments

If your house is anything like mine, it’s full of revising students. And if they’re constantly on their screens, you might want to tell them about a new study from the University of Tokyo which found greater memory and recall when we write on paper rather than tapping onto a laptop. The researchers think that… 

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WHY YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BED, AND WHY YOU SHOULD

April 30, 2021 3 Comments

What was your bedtime routine last night? A well-planned wind-down and lights out on schedule? Or a drawn-out process of reading just one more chapter/email/text message followed by putting a wash on, talking to the dog and prepping breakfast? All of which I did last night after the time I’d planned to go to bed…. 

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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 6 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 5 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 5 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 4 Comments

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 67 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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There’s a piece in @telegraph online today about There’s a piece in @telegraph online today about Susan’s coaching programme Better Brain Framework. Journalist @msmirandamcminn watched her mother battle dementia for 10 years. Determined to reduce her own dementia risk, Miranda worked with Susan for three months. 

She said, ‘I am convinced that we could all benefit from following this programme…. [it] has given me better clarity than I had at the age of 30”

The article is behind a paywall but we’ll put a link in stories, in case you’re a subscriber or fancy a free trial 

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How many steps are you walking in summer? When it’s warm, it’s tempting to find a shady spot and do very little, we know 

However, can we politely suggest you continue to get your daily steps in? We’ve been enjoying evening ambles and dawn saunters.  Get to the sea, a forest or mountains/hills if you can.

What about that magic 10,000 steps number? After all, recent studies suggest that somewhere around 7,000-8,000 daily steps is perfect for older people, with benefits tailing off after that.
Moreover, everyone now knows that the 10,000 step ‘rule’ was devised by a Japanese marketing company who liked the neatness of the  (untested) 10,000 number.

But it seems that 10,000 steps a day banishes inflamm-aging…. want to know more? It’s all on the blog - link on bio and in stories 

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Lymphatics and longevity - what you need to know Lymphatics and longevity - what you need to know 

The lymphatics are the body’s drainage system: keeping fluids in balance, flushing away toxins, supporting the immune system and removing cellular waste – the build-up of which causes oxidation (rusting!) in the body. If the lymphatic system isn’t operating optimally, we’re more likely to experience chronic inflammation. So many of the conditions linked to ageing – from arthritis to heart disease, dementia to insulin resistance – are rooted in this inflammation.

So, look after your lymphatic system and it will help look after your longevity 

More on the blog agewellproject.com and linked in stories 

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Annabel’s article on the strange and remarkable Annabel’s article on the strange and remarkable effects of place/location on our mental and physical health in August @goodhousekeepinguk with thanks to @definitelymaber 

Read more in Annabel’s latest book The Walking Cure from @bloomsburypublishing 

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We went to Stockholm! And, of course, it didn’t We went to Stockholm! And, of course, it didn’t escape our notice that the Swedes have a fantastically age-well lifestyle and a greater life expectancy than us here in the UK (although only by a year). 

The Nordic diet of foods traditionally eaten in Scandinavia plays a role in this: whole grains, fish and game. I brought some smoked reindeer meat home with me, not sure I would recommend. Vegetables, berries, ferments, oily fish and sea food are all longevity superfoods - we ate some incredible lumpfish roe and oysters while we were there. And Annabel had one of her favourites, nettle soup, not once but twice.

Coffee intake, clean air and the concept of ‘lagom’ - balance - all play a role too. Find the lowdown on the blog agewellproject.com and linked in stories 

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