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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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4 weeks ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Henry Emmons |Maggie Fazeli Fard |Jill Metzler Patton |Frank Lipman
During winter, our bodies want to hibernate. We sleep more, eat more comfort foods, and spend more time indoors. Come spring, when nature awakens, so do we. We might need less sleep and feel energized to give the house a good cleaning. Yet for some of us, the pendulum swings too far: Spring energy turns into agitation, moodiness, irritability, and insomnia. We might think of having seasonal affective disorder (SAD) solely as being tired, sluggish, and depressed during the winter.
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1 month ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Lauren Bedosky |Frank Lipman |Jon Spayde |Andrew Heffernan
Muscular strength is often prized for athletics and aesthetics, but the benefits go even deeper. Skeletal muscle — the muscle that attaches to bones and produces voluntary body movements — is essential for overall health, longevity, and quality of life. Here’s how. Our bodies are intricate machines, and skeletal muscle is the functional engine that makes our every movement possible.
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1 month ago | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jill Metzler Patton |Jessie Sholl |Frank Lipman |Gina Wagner
It’s 10 p.m. and you’re on the prowl for potato chips. A deadline looms and all you can think about is chocolate. You’ve sworn off pastries and now you dream exclusively of croissants. If food cravings have taken hold, chances are you’re in conflict with yourself over them. “We use the word ‘craving’ to describe an intense level of desire, which we usually think of as negative,” says Mark Schatzker, writer in residence at the Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center at McGill University.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Michael Dregni |Frank Lipman
Some years ago, in an uncharacteristic attempt at self-improvement, My Lovely Wife and I enrolled in a couple of beginning French classes through a local community education program. We had both achieved some minimal familiarity with Spanish during our long-ago high school days, but we figured so little of that language remained in our cluttered brains that there might be sufficient room in there for fragments of another tongue.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Mo Perry |Mark Hyman |Frank Lipman
Most people coping with metabolic obesity are familiar with its health risks: high blood pressure, dysregulated blood sugar, metabolically active abdominal fat, and elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Yet, despite efforts to eat healthier and exercise more, many find themselves stuck in a cycle. Old habits are hard to break, new ones aren’t moving the dial, and change feels out of reach.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Samantha McKinney |Frank Lipman
As with so many of life’s pleasures, moderation is your best bet. It’s impractical to quit sugar cold turkey, says Emmons. “Unlike other addictions, you can’t avoid food. It’s better to find ways to moderate how much [sugar] you eat and soften the blow with other foods that slow digestion.”Multiple studies suggest the body is better able to maintain insulin balance when encountering all three macronutrients together.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Laine Bergeson |Kristin Ohlson |Frank Lipman |Laine Bergeson Becco
There’s a reason you feel so refreshed when you get a good night’s sleep — and so groggy when you don’t. When you’re exhausted and it feels like the gears of your brain are clogged, it’s because, in a sense, they are. During the day, waste products accumulate in the brain. These are natural byproducts of our waking brainpower. When we’re asleep at night, the brain’s glymphatic system gets to work flushing away the day’s waste products.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Frank Lipman |Jon Spayde |Mo Perry
I’m not the most sociable guy you’ll ever meet. My favorite weekend activity, in fact, is canceling plans My Lovely Wife and I had made for the weekend. She’s in charge of finding events to attend; I’m in charge of not mentioning them until we both tacitly agree that we’re not attending. There was an art opening a couple of weekends ago, for instance, featuring the work of a local artist we know. She put it on her calendar, I put it on mine, nobody talked about it, and we ended up happily homebound.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Frank Lipman |Molly Kopischke
Season 9, Episode 7 | October 10, 2024Curious how GLP-1s can safely and strategically be used to support your health and weight-loss goals while also promoting overall wellness? In this conversation, Life Time’s MIORA experts dive into the science behind these medications, including what they are, how they work, and how to use them effectively in the context of a well-rounded wellness plan to maximize positive results.
