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THE ENDURING MAGIC OF MOVEMENT AND A GIVEAWAY

November 26, 2021 Leave a Comment

I hardly need to remind any of our readers that movement is the single most important thing you can do for your future health, surpassing every supplement, every sleep aid and almost every dietary intervention. As the days shorten and darken, exercise is sometimes the first thing to go. And yet barely a week goes… 

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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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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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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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AIR PURIFIERS AND THE PERFECT SAUCE TO PEP UP STEAMED GREENS

June 21, 2019 4 Comments

We’ve been promising to write about air purifiers for a few months.  Thank you to the readers who reminded us to get on with it! As it happens, our timing is good: experts have just called for air purifiers to be installed into the schools most affected by air pollution. And because green veggies have… 

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CAN YOU EAT TO BEAT POLLUTION?

March 15, 2019 4 Comments

Worried about pollution? We are too. This week, researchers announced that air pollution is now killing more people than smoking. The new study focuses on ozone and PM2.5 (they’re the tiny particles of Particulate Matter invisible to the naked eye but able to penetrate our lungs and – possibly – cross into our blood). The… 

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GREEN SPACE IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH

July 27, 2018 10 Comments

Do you have time in the countryside planned this summer?   I hope so. If not, find a bit of green space nearby (city parks are great) and aim for some Green Time every day. We’ve been singing the praises of trees and the great outdoors for some time now, but in the last few weeks… 

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WHY WE NEED TO SPICE UP OUR LIVES and SPICED PARSNIP SOUP

January 12, 2018 6 Comments

I was flicking through The Times earlier this week, when I spotted – buried away on page 14 – a short piece about pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer: Pfizer gives up on dementia research. Pfizer has said it will no longer be researching treatments for Alzheimer’s. The company has also stopped investing in a cure for Parkinson’s…. 

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HOW TO AVOID BOWEL CANCER & BEST EVER SQUASH SOUP

December 1, 2017 16 Comments

In my distant youth, I was a vegan.  Not for health reasons but for animal welfare reasons. Those were the days when there was no such thing as organic or free range.  The Body Shop (a British cruelty-free cosmetics chain) had recently opened in my home city of Brighton and the cruelties of factory farming… 

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We’ve been playing with Pinterest! We’ve upl We’ve been playing with Pinterest! 

We’ve uploaded 10 of our Age-Well recipes to Pinterest, just to test the water. We’ve got so many gorgeous recipes on the blog, and sometimes they’re hard to search. Hopefully being on Pinterest will make them a bit easier to find. 

Are you a…. pinner? Pinster? What’s the correct term? We don’t know! Anyway, if you are, could you let us know if we’ve done it right? Then we can start adding more recipes. 

Link in our bio to our Pinterest page

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We’ve been thinking about this a lot recently: i We’ve been thinking about this a lot recently: if grieving is an inherent part of ageing, how do we do it well? 

As we get older, we must inevitably live with an accumulation of loss, because we’ve had longer to love. Love has a huge impact on our brains: they are literally rewired by our relationships. When someone dies, our brains struggle.  We cannot understand where they are, or why they have gone. We try to locate them in time and in space. 

How we cope with our emotionally overloaded brains in times of grief, and how it shapes us, is the subject of our latest blog post - link in bio. 

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Annabel is in Tel Aviv this week, finding her way Annabel is in Tel Aviv this week, finding her way around using a proper paper map - which is a fantastic brain work out. Research published a few days ago from McMasters University 🇨🇦 linked orienteering (a team sport which combines map reading with running) to reduced dementia risk. Who’s tried it? We’re keen to give it a go! @britishorienteering #agewell #ageingwell #agingwell #aginggracefully #mapreading #orienteering #dementia #dementiaawareness #reducedementiarisk #alzheimers #alzheimersrisk #dementiaprevention #womenover50 #womenagainstalzheimers #agewellblog #longevityblog #healthblog #over50bloggers
Strength training is one of our non-negotiable Age Strength training is one of our non-negotiable Age Well strategies, so we’re always looking for ways to make the best of our work outs! 

5 top tips here - and more on the blog, link in bio. 

What are you top tips for strength training? Let us know

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In recent years we've both, like so many of our ge In recent years we've both, like so many of our generation, faced the consequences of caring for elderly relatives. But we talk so little about caring, and the unexpected burdens and stresses that can bring. 

Caring is an experience that's so difficult to prepare for, but it can help to share experiences. This is what we've done in our latest blog post. Do have a read and let us know your stories too - the link’s in our bio (and the post will also explain why Susan went on a ‘pilgrimage’ to Kentish Town!) 

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