Dementia & Brain health
Social connectedness is one of the most powerful protective factors for brain health. It is worth noting that social connectedness is a subjective experience.
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Challenge Yourself
Challenge yourself to build your strength as you age to prevent aging diseases and live a longer, healthier life. It starts with choices — made daily, lived fully.
What We Cover
Your Path to Longevity
Evidence-based lifestyle strategies to prevent aging-related diseases and keep your body and mind thriving.
Socialising
Research consistently shows that people with strong social ties live longer, recover faster from illness, and maintain sharper cognitive function well into old age. Connection is medicine.
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Diet & Gut Health
A person's diet has a direct and measurable impact on gut health — and gut health has a direct and measurable impact on everything else.
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Preventing the Aging Diseases
Create your tribe and protect your brain
Social connectedness is one of the most powerful protective factors for brain health. It is worth noting that social connectedness is a subjective experience.
Some with few friends or family members can be perfectly content, while others with a broader support system can still feel lonely. It is our perception that makes the difference.
Preventing the Aging DiseasesThe importance of meditation
The medical benefits of daily meditation are well documented and include sleep improvement, blood pressure reduction, pain relief, stress and anxiety reduction, and a decrease in depressive symptoms.
Daily meditation reverses the cytokine pattern seen in stress-induced depression. Cytokines are small proteins involved in inflammatory and other types of cell signalling.
The Importance of
SLEEP
Optimizing sleep and getting quality 8 hours a night. Too little sleep affects overall health and can lead to multiple health issues that all impact your health.
Bodily Toxins
Preventing Aging
In todays world we are exposed to toxins daily and it important to understand that these chemicals have an additive effect on our bodies and brains.
We each have a limit as to what our body can accommodate. When this is exceeded, we can develop toxin related illnesses.
