Lydia Graham

Featured in: Favicon

medium.com Favicon

hautelivingsf.com

Articles

In 2025, Build and Protect Your Muscles

2 months ago | hautelivingsf.com | Lydia Graham

While you may not be a bodybuilder or serious athlete, your muscles are important for a long and healthy life. How you take care of them may determine your eventual fate as you age. Besides avoiding an older adulthood of frailty, muscles do more than we might think. They enhance metabolism, improve insulin sensitivity, and protect against type 2 diabetes. Strong muscles are fueled by consuming quality dietary protein along with strength (resistance) training and adequate calorie consumption.
Embrace Your Inner Santa Claus This Season

Nov 10, 2024 | hautelivingsf.com | Lydia Graham |Haute Ambassador

As we embark on this particular holiday season, I wanted to write on a lighter note to offer a bit of cheer and inspiration. No one can dispute that the world is in an unsettled state. Even the most optimistic among us struggle to stay that way. With wars, a divided country, a barrage of negative news cycles, and calendars filled with the usual holiday busyness and seasonal commercial overload, how can we retain the optimism essential for our own well-being?
Can the Creative Arts Make Us Healthier?

Sep 15, 2024 | hautelivingsf.com | Lydia Graham |Haute Ambassador

The Bay Area has long been a cultural hub for world-class arts along with attracting its respective creators, affording locals many opportunities for artistic immersion and enjoyment. But besides just sheer pleasure, for those of us on a wellness path, can the arts also actually improve our well-being?
Maddy Dychtwald's Playbook for Ageless Aging

Jul 20, 2024 | hautelivingsf.com | Lydia Graham |Haute Ambassador

Maddy Dychtwald knows a thing or two about aging. First off, as a vibrant, active, and fit 73-year-old, she is doing it pretty well, continuously experimenting personally with how to increase her own health span, brain span and lifespan. Secondly, as a celebrated futurist (Forbes top 50 female futurists globally) and co-founder of Age Wave, the nation’s foremost thought leader on issues relating to an aging population, she has championed issues around aging for almost 40 years.
Are Your Fashion Choices Making You Sick?

Apr 1, 2024 | hautelivingsf.com | Lydia Graham

Toxic chemicals and materials in clothing can take a toll on your health. A recent Wall Street Journal article questioning whether clothes were better 50 years ago inspired me to reflect on fashion, which I have always loved.
Matthew Perry Never Had a Chance

Mar 1, 2024 | virtualguru1.medium.com | Lydia Graham

Don’t Be Alarmed by the Title, Let Me ExplainFirst, let me say this: I loved the show Friends regardless of the adversity about the lack of diversity. The cast had and still have an amazing synergy and friendship to this day according to a reunion show that they did with James Cordon in 2021. I respected that about them, and I loved Matthew Perry as Chandler and thought he was a brilliant actor.
Judith Campisi Cracks the Code on Aging

Jul 10, 2023 | hautelivingsf.com | Lydia Graham

Discovering the mechanisms of senescenceWhile cracking the code on why we age is an ambitious and encompassing endeavor, cracking the glass ceiling of science, especially for a woman, is probably just as elusive. Although the field is changing, science for decades was the purview of men and research was largely conducted using male subjects, animals, and cell cultures. But no longer.
So Close, So Far Away

May 10, 2023 | hautelivingsf.com | Lydia Graham |Haute Hotels

Taking time-out at the Cavallo Point Healing Arts Center & Spa Remember when you were a kid (or you have kids) and were told (or you tell them) “take a time-out?” Well, sometimes we must tap into our inner parent to get permission as an adult to take a time-out and temporarily step off life’s merry-go-round. When asked what my favorite places are for restoration and rejuvenation, the Healing Arts Center & Spa at Cavallo Point in Sausalito immediately comes to mind.