What You Need to Know About Peyronie’s Disease? Lately there’s been a lot of attention about Peyronie’s disease. Essentially, it’s a disease that causes your penis to bend during erections. We don’t know why this disease is getting traction lately. Maybe because more men are willing to talk about it? Or maybe because there is less stigma out there? We …
You may have started a new diet and exercise program and feel like you’re making progress, but nothing has changed when you step on the scale. Numbers on a scale can be frustrating, but it doesn’t mean your efforts aren’t working. The scale and body mass index (BMI) are basic tools for measuring your body composition, but they don’t provide …
Does the thought of working out immediately spur ideas of stiffness and pain? It shouldn’t! Maybe it’s been a while since you’ve laced up the Nikes, or perhaps you exercise a few days per week. Either way, what you do before and after your workout is the key to a pain-free life. As you age, your warm-up and cool-down routines …
Remember the days you could stay out late, eat anything, have an extra couple of beers, recover quickly, and for the most part, do whatever you wanted without much difficulty? Unfortunately, after 50, memories are the only way to experience that life without feeling awful. It likely happened on a random morning when you woke up and felt age …
You’ve heard the saying, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Is that true? You can acquire new skills by doing one thing, and that’s leveraging your curiosity. The problem is that your innate curiosity waned as you’ve gotten older and wiser. You think you know the answers to almost every question, and cynicism has replaced inquisitiveness. It’s probably …
Imagine your friends and relatives gathered around your lifeless body as it lies in a casket. Considering our own death is difficult regardless of your philosophical or theological views. What do you want the story of your life to reveal about who you were? Who will say what? What will they recall? “A thousand times we die in one life. …
We grow up thinking the world works in certain ways but what we’ve been led to believe are mostly lies. So many of the ideas we’ve come to rely upon are simply not true. The unfortunate part of the story is that it takes a lot of life experience to figure it out. Probably our biggest misconception is that of …
Do you feel like you’re getting older at an increasingly rapid pace? While it’s impossible to halt the aging process, there are things we can do to slow it down. What’s the most critical factor in your health and well-being? The typical issues that come to mind are heart health, body weight, blood sugar, blood pressure, and mental fitness. It’s …
Unless you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you’ll get less sleep for the next several months. The amount of light and darkness affects the timing and regulation of our sleep patterns. With increased daylight hours, our brains delay the production of the sleep hormone melatonin. Most of us stay up later but still wake up at the same time each …
Okay, maybe you’re not quite turning fifty, or perhaps you already unwrapped some of Mother Nature’s gifts of aging. Either way, she’s coming for you! Our youth is a time of strength and invincibility. Our bodies are lean, flexible, and resilient. We can stay out late, eat fast food, have an extra couple of beers, recover quickly, and for the …
