Your Guide to Living Healthier & Happier for Longer
These are the Essential Boomer podcasts focused on topics related to extending our healthspan.
In episode 61, I have a fascinating conversation with Victoria Hahn, MS, RDN, about prolonged fasting with the Fasting Mimicking Diet ®
Victoria is the Nutrition Science Liaison for L-Nutra, the leaders in the field of nutrition related to longevity and health-span.
L-Nutra develops Nutri-technologies that mimic the effects of fasting, to enhance the body’s
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Hello and welcome to health bites!
HEALTH BITES is a
short podcast meant to provide you with some basic understanding of the
often-times complex concepts that are central to the many biological processes
responsible for extending our health span.
Today, I want to share with you the awe and mystery of autophagy.
Autophagy plays a leading role in many
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What if I told you that there has been a scientific breakthrough for a new medication that has been proven to protect you from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, colds and the flu?
And… that this medication has a powerful healing effect on every system and cell in your body…
And this amazing medication can also
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Today on Health Bites, I’m going to be talking about your body’s cells and why you don’t want them to become zombies AND, how to get rid of them if they do.
I know that sounds strange but it really can happen. This is a really interesting and important concept that directly affects your health
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In episode 57, I'll share a lifestyle hack that can provide very quick benefits to your present health, as well as add many healthy years to your life.
This important lifestyle hack is the drastic reduction of refined sugar from your life.
Most people are aware that too much sugar can cause health issues like
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Today, I’ll be sharing with you the awe and wonder of hormesis and why it is so important to maintaining our health, particularly when we enter the age when things can start to go south, in our fifties and beyond.
Technically, the term hormesis is used by toxicologists to describe the way our bodies can react
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55: How the Sauna Habit Can Make You Younger, Healthier & Happier
The simple life hack that can change your life!
In episode 55 I talk about a simple life change that is relatively new to me, but I’ve felt its positive effects in just the few short months since I incorporated it into my weekly routine.
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This is a special relaunch of The Essential Boomer podcast so I want to share with you a great topic that can be of immense benefit to you, and everybody else who listens. Therefore, I have chosen to share with you the awe and wonder of….
Sulforaphane...
Okay, now don’t get all bleary-eyed on me
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One of the subjects that I have recently been fascinated by, to the point of obsession, is the concept of health extension, or how to increase our health span. Health span is the time in our lives where we are functional and relatively free of the many serious chronic diseases that are usually
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In episode 54, I’m very honored to have Joe D. Goldstrich MD, FACC, as a repeat guest on the Medical Pot Guide.
Dr. Joe, as he likes to be called, is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology and clinical lipidology, and Vice President for Scientific Affairs with Natural State Healthcare, an Arkansas corporation awaiting
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Episode 51 marks the one-year anniversary of the essential boomer podcast and in honor of the of this I’m bringing back the guest who started it all for me back in episode one, Paul Zavagno.
Paul is an educator, a retired school principal, a great humanitarian and a certified facilitator of the work of Byron
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In episode #50, I’m very pleased to present part II of my conversation with Mel Friedman, Doctor of Osteopathy. In this episode Mel, as he likes to be called, shares his spiritual beliefs and how he applies these beliefs to his recipe for a healthy lifestyle.
If you haven’t heard Part I of this interview
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In episode 49, You will hear Part I of this 2 Part series in which I have a fascinating in-depth conversation with Mel Friedman D.O. In it, Mel, as he likes to be called, gives us an intimate look into his heart, mind and the path he took from being a disillusioned family practice doctor to becoming a
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In episode 48, I have Chris Roddell as my guest on the essential boomer. Chris is the author of Use All the Crayons! The Colorful Guide to Simple Human Happiness, the only self-improvement book graced with a cover endorsement by the legendary golfer & pitchman Arnold Palmer.
Chris is a fellow boomer who will do just about
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In episode 47 of The Essential Boomer, Jim Jensen talks about how to avoid being a victim of telephone scams.
While on vacation in Hawaii I hear the phone ringing in the condominium that we were renting. Naturally I pick up the phone.
“Hello (In thick Indian accent), I am calling from Microsoft Tech support and I’m calling about
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In episode 45 I have a fascinating conversation with Cory Kidd PhD, who shares his story of creating Mabu, the amazing robotic health care companion who is making friends everywhere.
Cory is the founder and CEO of Catalia Health, a healthcare technology company focused on delivering effective behavioral change. Cory is a serial entrepreneur who has been working
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In episode 45, I have a conversation with registered dietitian, Anne Kolker, who has worked with Kaiser Permanente since 2008. Anne is one very busy lady. She facilitates healthy weight and behavioral change classes, works one on one with teens, children and families with nutritional counseling, presents nutrition seminars to a variety of companies, teaches online classes
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In episode 44, I have a conversation with Dating Coach, Tedx speaker AND the host of Last First Date radio, Sandy Weiner. You may remember her from episode 24 when she shared with us boomers the low-down on how to find love after 50… or maybe you’ll remember that steamy episode 35 where she told us
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This week I’m going to share one of my favorite exercise. The High-low-chops. This is a killer full-body exercise which targets the core and oblique muscles. I will be using the JC Predator bands to demonstrate the exercise.
Place the anchor point of the band about a foot or so above head level. Hold both handles
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In this video, I’ll show you how to easily give yourself a killer haircut in 5 minutes. You can save yourself hundreds of dollars a year. Check it out!
If I wait for more than 2 weeks to cut my hair I start to look like Ed Grimley, Martin Short's character on Saturday Night Live.
Here is
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My absolute favorite piece of exercise equipment is The JC Predator Band…I love it because:
• It’s very portable, very light and slips easily into a suitcase making it very easy to turn your hotel room into your own private gym. It easily slips into a door jam, loop over a piece of equipment in the gym
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I LOVE this workout! It only takes 10 minutes and it's very effective. Heck, you even get to walk half of it. This workout isn't just an excellent workout for your cardio-vascular system. It also is great a developing balance and agility. Just start off slow until you get the footwork down a bit and
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