If you’ve reached the age where “sleeping wrong” feels like a contact sport, you aren’t alone. We’ve all been there: you wake up, reach for your morning coffee, and suddenly your shoulder emits a sound like a dry twig snapping in a forest. Naturally, your first instinct is to assume [...]
By the time we hit 50, we’ve mostly accepted that things are going to start “settling.” The house is settled, our careers are settled, and unfortunately, our waistlines have settled into a permanent alliance with gravity. We’ve traded late-night parties for early-morning birdwatching and realized that “sleeping wrong” is now [...]
If you’ve spent any time online lately, you’ve likely been told that your “nervous system is dysregulated.” According to the internet, if you can’t find your car keys, it’s dysregulation. If you’re annoyed that the grocery store rearranged the aisles again, it’s dysregulation. If you’re still trying to figure out [...]
As we cross the threshold of 50, our calendars suddenly fill up with some rather “glamorous” new appointments. Between the standard oil changes for our knees and the inevitable debate over which fiber supplement tastes the least like damp cardboard, there is the undisputed king of milestone birthdays: the screening [...]
If you’ve recently reached the age where your back makes more noise than your microwave or you’ve started celebrating the fact that you went to the grocery store and actually remembered the one thing you went there for, the idea of living to 100 might sound like a mixed blessing. [...]
Let’s be honest: by the time we hit 50, we’ve all spent a fair amount of time squinting at the fine print—whether it’s on a bottle of ibuprofen or a 401(k) statement. But there’s another “fine print” we’ve been carrying around since birth: our DNA. For decades, genetic testing was [...]
