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3 days ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Laine Bergeson Becco |Jessie Sholl
Among the more common recommendations public health experts hand down to seniors is the importance of maintaining social connections. They cite volumes of research showing how disengaging from society as we grow older can contribute to any number of chronic illnesses and various levels of cognitive distress.
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1 week ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Jon Spayde
My Lovely Wife is five years younger than me, but I’ve come to believe that her brain may be even younger. It’s not just that she’s smarter than I am; I’ve known that forever (though it took me a while to admit it). But she also tends to absorb and retain information more reliably as she grows older than my own aging gray matter can manage.
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2 weeks ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Lauren Bedosky
For the better part of 30 years, I belonged to a ragtag collection of basketball junkies who gathered once a week for a couple of hours to demonstrate to each other why we were never skillful enough to earn a place on our high school squads. I maintained some level of (relative) proficiency into my late 50s and sank my last midrange jumper more than a decade ago at the age of 62.
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3 weeks ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Jon Spayde |Frank Lipman
Having reached a stage of life in which my narrowing social circle has become inundated with retirees, I find my septuagenarian self regularly defending my decision to remain gainfully employed.
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3 weeks ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Sheila Eldred |David Schimke |Craig Cox
Perfection is the enemy of the good, especially when you’re trying to cut down on ultraprocessed foods (UPFs), says Nichola Ludlam-Raine, RD, author of How Not to Eat Ultra-Processed: Your 4-Week Plan for Life-Changing Healthier Eating Habits. UPFs account for almost three-quarters of America’s food supply, meaning the hunt for minimally processed foods can be tricky, especially in social situations. Ludlam-Raine encourages people to be gentle with themselves rather than strive for perfection.
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3 weeks ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Henry Emmons |Craig Cox |Alexandra Smith
It turns out seasonal affective disorder is not just a winter affliction. Try these strategies to lessen spring anxiety. Late-life depression descends on an estimated 20 percent of older U.S. adults, according to recent research. That may explain my recently sagging spirits — or not. Ketamine may help treat both acute and chronic depression, as well as other mental health disorders like addiction and PTSD. Learn how it works. Learn more about the effect that sugar and inflammation have on your mood.
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4 weeks ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Michael Dregni
How scientists have been manipulating the human brain in recent years is as fascinating as it is frightening. The folks at Neuralink, for instance, believe they will someday be able to connect our gray matter with our smartphones so we can call someone simply by thinking about it. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, meanwhile, have used a brain-computer interface to allow a man rendered speechless by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to make himself heard.
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1 month ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Laine Bergeson |Henry Emmons |Aimee Prasek
I’m never quite prepared for our annual government-sanctioned exercise in sleep deprivation. March reliably delivers Daylight Saving Time, and yet it never fails to catch me unaware and drag me from my comfortable sleep schedule into some yawning chasm of circadian confusion. Last week’s changing of the clocks proved to be no exception. I retired on Saturday night around 10, as I normally do, and woke as usual around 7 — except it was 8.
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1 month ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Alexandra Smith |Michael Dregni
Like a certain portion of the American public, I’ve been feeling a little low lately while struggling to find some equilibrium amid what seems like a daily dose of political and cultural chaos. There’s no escaping the zeitgeist, however, so I was oddly pleased the other day to learn that the real source of my sagging spirits may have less to do with current events than with my advanced age.
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1 month ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Michael Dregni
It’s perfectly reasonable for an older person to briefly wonder whether they’re sliding inexorably toward dementia when they forget where they left their car keys or find themselves frantically searching the archives of their gray matter for the name of a once-familiar relative. (Been there, done that.) But, until recently, seriously investigating those suspicions involved some serious clinical procedures — MRIs, PET scans, spinal taps.
