It’s May – my favourite month for walking in Great Britain, and (apparently) National Walking Month when school children everywhere are encouraged to walk to school. The bluebell woods are in bloom, wild roses are flowering, birdsong is at its most vocal, the swallows and nightingales have returned. Which is to say, our parks and…
WHAT WE’VE LEARNT IN THE LAST 10 YEARS: BRAIN HEALTH EDITION
Annabel and I went out for a slap-out lunch last week to celebrate both 10 years since our blog was born, and five years (to the day!) since The Age-Well Project book was published. Both significant milestones for us. We ate lots of sea food, vegetables and chicken livers, reminisced about the early days and…
WHAT WE’VE LEARNT IN A DECADE (PART 2)
It’s ten years this weekend since Susan and I set up our Age-Well Project – read to the end for our birthday giveaway! Has it worked and have we aged well? We like to think so (ahem). One thing is for sure: we know a hell of a lot more than we did a decade…
10 years of The Age-Well Project! What we’ve learnt (part 1)
It’s hard to believe, but this month The Age-Well Project celebrates its 10th birthday! What started as a small-scale blog to help Annabel and I track our own health has spawned a decade of writing, a worldwide community of many thousands (thank you!), multiple books and new careers. Annabel and I became friends when two…
SUPPLEMENTS FOR MOOD, OILS FOR SLEEP, AND THE POWER OF YOGA NIDRA
I subscribe to a brilliant website called Examine.com where a team of researchers comb through hundreds of scientific studies and reports to find which food supplements really work. So when a friend recently asked for suggestions to lift her low mood, I turned to this trusty website. As we’ve written here before, headlines, TikTok and…
Fantastic fascia and how to help it age well
A question for you: are you keeping your fascia flexible and doing all you can to help it age well? If you’re thinking ‘Susan, what IS fascia?’ don’t worry. That’s exactly where I was a few months ago. But I’ve been busy learning more about this fascinating connective tissue – pronounced ‘fasha’ – that supports…
ON BEING OUTDOORS, DREAMING AND KEEPING REGULAR HOURS
Last night I came across a few lines from Thomas Jefferson (US president, diplomat, architect, lawyer, philosopher – why don’t they make them like that now??) written over 200 years ago and was struck by how they chimed with a few medical studies I’d just read: ‘Walking is the best possible exercise,’ he wrote, ‘A…
Get spicy to age well!
There’s something immensely satisfying about cleaning out a spice drawer, isn’t there? It’s purposeful, practical and is a reminder that these pungent substances can transport us to exotic locations with just a whiff. I gave mine an early spring clean this week and it conjured thoughts of delicious recipes and faraway places. (But why is…
Let’s rest to age well
I often say that rest is the forgotten piece of the longevity puzzle. It benefits us physically, mentally and cognitively. But compared to many of the Age-Well protocols we write about here, there’s very little research on it. Possibly because it’s so difficult to quantify. How do you put ‘taking time to look out of…
DISCOVERING THE POWER OF YOUR NIGHT SELF
My last few weeks have been spent in a deluge of podcasts, radio appearances and interviews, following the UK launch of Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self, my new book (and – excuse the brag – The Times Book of the Week!!). Interestingly, almost every interviewer has approached the subject through their own…
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