Pilar Gerasimo

Co-Host at The Living Experiment Podcast

Author, The Healthy Deviant. Co-host, The Living Experiment. Founder, Healthy Deviant U. Are you a Healthy Deviant? Find out: https://t.co/AdkT8aO3ok

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Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Becomes an Obsession

1 month ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Pilar Gerasimo |Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl |Pamela Weintraub |Sonya Taylor

A few years ago, I gave a presentation to an audience of physicians and hospital administrators based on my book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World. During my talk, I noted how deviating from the typical American diet — or just not eating what everybody else is eating — can lead to social awkwardness and stigmatization. A doctor approached me afterward to seek my advice.
PUMPING IRONY: True or False?

2 months ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Craig Cox |Pilar Gerasimo |Jon Spayde

By some estimates, the social media multiverse has now enveloped with its eclectic mix of cute cat videos, envy-inducing vacation photos, blistering vitriol, and a seemingly endless torrent of misinformation. And while social scientists seem to mostly worry about its toxic effects on the mental health of young people, I’ve recently been struck by research focusing more closely on older adults and their ability to parse the tsunami of suspect info inundating their laptops and phones each day.
4 Tips for Finding Mindfulness During Mindless Moments

Jan 14, 2025 | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Kara Douglass Thom |Christine Schrum |Pilar Gerasimo |Mo Perry

There’s plenty of ancient wisdom imploring humans to stay present. Even modern-day research supports mindfulness as a legitimate health tool, pointing to its benefits for both mental and physical well-being, in part because developing healthy habits means learning to be mindful of our choices and aware of what feels good in our bodies.
A Somatic Workout to Support Your Well-Being

Sep 25, 2024 | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Maggie Fazeli Fard |Pilar Gerasimo |Pamela Weintraub |At-Home Workouts

Explore the Somatic MovesFitness efforts often revolve around extrinsic data points. We dutifully log sets, reps, and weights. Track miles, meters, and time under tension. Strive for perfect form, optimal alignment, and efficiency of movement. But a growing number of fitness professionals and exercisers are embracing a healing mind–body approach known as somatics, which shifts the focus from the outside in.
How to Do Downward Dog

Aug 21, 2024 | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Maggie Fazeli Fard |Pilar Gerasimo |Kelle Walsh

Adho Mukha Svanasana — known as downward-facing dog or, simply, down dog in the West — is a foundational asana, or yoga pose. Hands and feet on the mat, with hips high in the air, the inverted V shape is a highly recognizable posture. You’re likely to encounter it during yoga classes, where it is sometimes used as a transitional pose and resting posture, as well as during nonyogic training.
How to Declutter Your Medicine Cabinet

Apr 18, 2024 | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jill Metzler Patton |Carole Hyder |Pilar Gerasimo |Wanda Urbanska

Items in a medicine cabinet (or bathroom drawer or shelf) have a way of proliferating. “We think, well, this is a medicine-y, first aid-y, bathroom-y kind of thing, so I guess I’ll just throw it in the medicine cabinet because I don’t know where else to put it,” says certified organizer and life coach Sara Skillen. Next thing we know, the space is stuffed — and good luck finding the tweezers.
The Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

Mar 21, 2024 | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jon Spayde |Heidi Wachter |Jessie Sholl |Pilar Gerasimo

When Marie Kondo published The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, many Americans embraced her simple decluttering principle: If something doesn’t “spark joy,” out it goes. A few years later, Margareta Magnusson published a similar guide with a mildly macabre title: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. We won’t be around forever, Magnusson reminded us, and we owe it to the people who survive us to deal with our stuff so they don’t have to after we’re gone.
ONE HEALTHY HABIT: Wake Up at the Same Time Everyday

Feb 21, 2024 | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Pamela Weintraub |Jon Spayde |Pilar Gerasimo |Dallas Hartwig

A consistent sleep schedule benefits your circadian rhythms. Too little or poor-quality sleep can lead to circadian disruption, and that’s linked to mood disorders as well as acute and chronic health concerns. Researchers have connected chronic disrupted sleep with weight gain and an increased risk for chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s. Maintaining consistent sleep and wake times is ideal.
The Promise of Permeability

Sep 21, 2023 | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Henry Emmons |Aimee Prasek |Pilar Gerasimo |Jill Metzler Patton

By Henry Emmons, MD and Aimee Prasek, PhD | Experience Life You don’t often hear people described as permeable, but we are. Just like the rest of the natural world, we breathe, we eat, we suffer injuries and illness, and we heal. In nature, you don’t see healthy organisms wall themselves off from their surroundings — at least not for long. It’s the constant give and take that makes life possible. Our emotional lives are similar.
4 Ways Exercise Makes Sex Better

Sep 21, 2023 | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Andrew Heffernan |Marcelle Pick |Pilar Gerasimo

Among the myriad benefits of regular physical activity is one you don’t hear much about. Sure, exercise can make your muscles stronger, bones more resilient, digestion more regular, sleep more restful, and mood brighter, but it can also enhance your sex life. First, we know sex is complex. A fulfilling sexual experience requires a multifaceted blend of psychology, physiology, and that elusive ingredient, chemistry — the complete package of which cannot be delivered by exercise.