I recently had an appointment with my personal physician and after reviewing my exam and lab results, his advice to me was brief and simple: "Keep doing what you're doing!" I've got to admit, I'm proud to say that I'm in my 60s, take no medications (only natural hormones), easily maintain my weight, have boatloads of energy, and can still run, strength train and do full-contact martial arts sparring...and I have no intention of...

Years ago, I spoke at an anti-aging health conference and hosted a booth in the exhibitors’ hall. As attendees stopped by to ask questions, one thing became clear very quickly: many people were searching for their fountain of youth through surgical procedures. While there’s nothing wrong with wanting to look your best, when cosmetic procedures begin to limit natural facial movement—or drastically alter appearance—it’s often a sign that things have gone a step too far....

  If you’re a woman, especially over age 40, and you’ve been to a doctor anytime in the recent past, you’ve undoubtedly been urged to increase your calcium (with supplements and/or dairy products) for bone health and osteoporosis prevention. Now of course, there’s nothing wrong with recommending calcium! Your bones do need it, after all. But what IS wrong is the fact that many women are led to believe that calcium is ALL that matters...

  October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and everywhere you go, you see pink ribbons symbolizing monies donated for breast cancer research. Let’s look at this “research,” shall we? BILLIONS of research dollars have been raised over the last several decades to “find the cure,” yet cancer is still our number 2 killer. So, what have all these billions of dollars bought us? Lots of pretty pink ribbons? And the maddening thing here is...

  Here’s an eye-opening statistic--currently, nearly eight out of 10 Americans are overweight or obese. And those numbers are not going down. Of course, the begging question here is: What in the world is going on? Why is it our “new normal” to be overweight? Well, there are a lot of factors behind the scenes, including processed/fast foods, lack of exercise, exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, chronic stress and the resulting elevated cortisol levels, and our...