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Maintaining Bone Health
In trying to live every day we’re alive, I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the ability to move, but it’s not just about muscle. Those muscles connect to bones for the most part, and the bones must be healthy as well. One of the basic tenets of healthy bones is Wolfe’s law, which […]
Improve Your Posture
Today is the final post about the physical factors of living and not just being alive, and it’s about your posture, the way you carry yourself. Posture reflects the interplay of your skeletal, muscular, and nervous system: the way you stand, the way you move, and the way you sit. Those all rely on the […]
Core Flexibility and Lower Back Pain
On any given day, lower back pain afflicts 25% of the population; 80% of all adults will experience it as some point in their life, and it’s still a major cause of lost work days and workman compensation claims. Face it, as long as we walk upright, we’re going to have lower back pain of […]
How Flexible Are You?
Living every day you’re alive requires flexibility. Range of motion in your joints is important to your ability to move, but it can be difficult. As the years add up, touching your toes with your knees locked, whether sitting on the floor or standing, lifting your arms over your head, or even lifting your arms […]
Preventing Muscle Loss
This final installment on muscle focuses on keeping the muscle mass you’ve got. That’s one of the keys to living every day you’re alive: the ability to move at every age. There are three things that are important to hanging onto muscle. Use it or lose it. Actually, you’re going to lose it not matter […]
Skeletal Muscle: Strength
This week, we’re turning our attention to skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle allows us to move and to lift ourselves and other objects. The two primary features are strength and stamina. Let’s begin with strength. A simple definition of strength is the most weight you could lift once. That could be as little as a couple […]
Exercise Your Heart, Part 2
Did you ever have to hurry to catch a connecting flight? Walk fast or maybe even jog? Were you able to do it? How about carrying a child who weighs 45 pounds for a quarter mile because she’s hurt her foot? Could you do it? That’s where your heart reserve comes in: facing challenges that […]
Exercise Your Heart, Part 1
In my opinion, the single most important thing you can do to be able to live life at your best is to exercise your heart. Every day. You don’t have to run marathons; you don’t ever need to run at all. You just need to train your heart every day. I’ve broken it down into […]
How to Live Every Day
“What’s the point of being alive if you can’t really live?” That’s what a colleague and I arrived at when discussing the purpose of a program we’re working on, but it speaks to each and every one of us. To be living every day we’re alive. I suspect one of the reasons we limit our […]
AI and Healthcare
What if, at some point in the future, your next physical is done via a holographic physician? The hologram will be chosen specifically for you, based on age, gender, and other characteristics collected from your posts on social media, websites you’ve visited, music you’ve listened to, shows you’ve watched on television or whatever replaces that […]
