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WHY A 12 MINUTE WALK IS ALL IT TAKES (AND A SPECIAL OFFER)

December 5, 2020 2 Comments

This week a recent report on exercise caught my eye.  As the days shorten and darken, as the weather closes in, those long walks we all took in the magnificently sunny lockdown #1 don’t seem quite so appealing. For those of us in the UK, lockdown #2 has been subject to repeated deluges of rain,… 

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WHY YOUR SENSE OF SMELL MATTERS

November 12, 2020 8 Comments

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… 

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

November 3, 2020 14 Comments

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…. 

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HOW TO BUILD MUSCLE ON THE SLY – AND WHY

October 27, 2020 25 Comments

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… 

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HOW TO EXERCISE, NORWEGIAN STYLE

October 13, 2020 9 Comments

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… 

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Answering your most frequently-asked questions – and a giveaway

October 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

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… 

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WHY I’M EATING MORE MEAT AND MY NEW FAVOURITE SALAD

August 28, 2020 2 Comments

I know it’s controversial, and I know I’ve written a lot about eating more vegetables – and my own almost entirely plant-based diet – but recently I’ve started eating more meat. After years of reading and research, I’ve come to the conclusion that a little good quality meat isn’t the dietary bogeyman which will decimate… 

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FOUR TIPS FOR AGEING EYES, BAKED MACKEREL AND YOUR INVITATION

August 22, 2020 15 Comments

An optician once told me that our eyes are only designed to last about 40 years – the maximum lifespan of our ancestral forebears – and after that they’re on borrowed time. So if we hope to live well into our eighties, nineties (and beyond?!) we need to focus (as it were) on looking after… 

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AGEING WELL ON YOUR SUMMER STAYCATION, RASPBERRY CAKE – AND INVITATIONS!

August 15, 2020 7 Comments

This is the summer of the staycation – while some are bravely jetting off, I’m not one of them. There are so many wonderful things to do on our doorsteps here in the UK, many of which are corona compliant and can help us age well too. In my day-to-day life I juggle TV producing,… 

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HOW TO BEAT STRESS, ENHANCE NEUROPLASTICITY AND A FABULOUS TREAT FOR YOU

August 7, 2020 9 Comments

These long months of uncertainty have left me feeling stressed and often unrested, even after a decent night’s sleep. How’s our current state of semi-normality impacting you? Reconnecting with life as much as we can, while knowing that it’s not the same, creates a constant, low thrum of stress. Everybody is facing uncertainty and challenge… 

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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.

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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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