Category: fitness

‘You Are Your Own Architect’: Fitness Guru Denise Austin’s Best Advice

Denise Austin, author and fitness expert with four decades of experience, proudly calls herself a cheerleader for people, of all ages and fitness levels, to have fun working out and getting fit. She’s known across the country for her deeply genuine, upbeat attitude toward exercise and fitness, and her healthy outlook on life. She now…


Fasting for Autoimmune Diseases

The strongest evidence of the benefits of fasting surrounds the treatment of an autoimmune joint disease known as rheumatoid arthritis, as I detailed in my last video. There was a German study suggesting benefits for osteoarthritis as well, with reported improvements in pain and joint function. But we’d really need randomized controlled studies to know…


Music Proven to Soothe the Soul: Research Study Proposes Music Could Prevent 800,000 Avoidable Deaths

University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers have found that music could prevent an estimated 800,000 avoidable deaths annually, after unearthing clear evidence that musical engagement improves overall wellbeing and health, decreasing anxiety and improving mood. Matt McCrary, Adjunct Lecturer at UNSW’s Prince of Wales Clinical School and co-author of the study publishing music’s effect…


Frail, But Living at Home: Program Helps Elderly Stay Strong

While building healthy habits at an earlier age can have some long-term benefits, adding physical activity can help at all ages, new research suggests. A new study found that physically frail elderly people with low muscle mass (sarcopenia) were able to reduce their level of “mobility disability” by 22% over three years, using a program…


Are You Getting Enough Of This Vital Mineral ?

Magnesium glycinate has been increasing in popularity for several years –  with good reasons. However, since 2020, I’ve seen this impressive mineral hit superstar status in my practice. Why? Probably because it effectively addresses many of the health concerns that have increased over the last few years, particularly sleep disturbances.  As a vital mineral, Magnesium…


How to Become Stronger: Weight Training for Middle-Aged and Older People

Just exercising will not make you stronger. If it did, marathon runners would have the largest and strongest muscles. If you want to make your muscles stronger, you have to exercise them against resistance strong enough to damage the muscle fibers and when they heal, they will be stronger.  A review of 22 studies on how…


New Friends: How a 67-year-old Struck Up Lasting New Friendships During her First Triathlon

Jeanne Mitchell, mother and grandmother, had just moved away from the friends she knew. She retired and moved upstate with her husband to a quiet area on the New Jersey coast in 2013. “It’s a beautiful neck of the woods,” she admits, but “it’s not an area where you get to know your neighbors super…


Clinical Nutritionist

“The healthy life is not the perfect life,” Jessica Sepel wants you to know. “The healthy life is truly one that has balance at the core of everything.” The 33-year-old Australian beauty is a clinical nutritionist, an author, and the founder of a worldwide nutrition empire. Now a rising star in international business, Sepel lived…


Clinical Nutritionist and Former Fad Dieter Finds Beauty and Happiness Through Being Kind to Herself

“The healthy life is not the perfect life,” Jessica Sepel wants you to know. “The healthy life is truly one that has balance at the core of everything.” The 33-year-old Australian beauty is a clinical nutritionist, an author, and the founder of a worldwide nutrition empire. Now a rising star in international business, Sepel lived…


Sarcopenia of Aging: Loss of Muscle Size and Strength

Aging causes you to lose strength, no matter how much you exercise. Muscles are made up of hundreds of thousands of individual fibers, like a rope is made up of many strands. Each muscle fiber is innervated by a single motor nerve. With aging you lose motor nerves, and with each loss of a nerve,…