As little as 50 stairs a day improves cardiovascular health (and thus brain health). Don’t sell your stairs. Even if they feel hard. Even if your knees hurt. If you do, soon you’ll find stairs out in the world almost impossible and you’ll also miss out on an everyday way to improve health.
The OG snake oil was…snake oil. Now it’s available just about everywhere and comes in endless forms. It seems like everything is snake oil. But the fundamentals of a healthy and happy life haven’t changed.
Does obesity lead to inner truth or the inside of a hospital? It makes everything in life worse, yet misguided people are asking us to accept it. We cannot. New research shows that obesity promotes Alzheimer’s.
A few short bouts of vigorous activity can lower all-cause mortality. However, whenever, how long you get active needs to be celebrated, regardless of duration.
Strength training boosts a key longevity hormone more than aerobic exercise does – so we love ‘em both. No need to have a favorite.
There are no superfoods. But there are SuperVillian Foods. We created them in a lab. “Superfoods” are just the normal, healthy foods we have consumed for all of human history. They have no superpowers and have difficulty balancing out the damage from SuperVillian Foods.
Never “just” walk again. Walking is good. Make it better for brain health. Here are some ideas for how to make walking more fun and enjoyable.
Alzheimer’s doesn’t come out of nowhere – it comes out of everywhere. I had to go on hiatus from this blog to work on a big brain fitness and Alzheimer’s project that is coming soon.
Tired of [ACTION REQUIRED] e-mails? Me too, until I learned to do something physical every time I get one of these.
Sit still or take a pill? You bet I will. The reality of brain games cannot live up to the unrealistic expectations we put on them, but “moving brain games” can fulfill the promise of brain health.
