Health and Wellness

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Snooze It or Lose It: How Bad Sleep Is Forcing Early Retirements

Health and Wellness

• 3 MIN. READ

If you have reached or passed the age of 60, chances are your relationship with your alarm clock has evolved from mutual respect to a somewhat tense, daily negotiation. While most of us spend our later career years obsessing over 401(k) balances and pension estimates, researchers have uncovered another crucial [...]

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The Biology of Connection: How Purpose and Community Extend Life Expectancy After 60

Health and Wellness

• 5 MIN. READ

Once you cross the threshold of 60, society subtly starts suggesting that your main daily objectives should involve managing your medication schedules, monitoring the local weather forecast with intense scrutiny, and explaining to younger relatives how phones used to be attached to walls. However, modern medical science paints a drastically [...]

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Biohacking vs. Medical Reality: Is Health Tracking Doing More Harm Than Good?

Health and Wellness

• 4 MIN. READ

If you have spent any time online lately, you might suspect that unless you are tracking your sleep stages in milliseconds, wearing a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) while eating a low-carb radish, and scheduling routine whole-body MRIs, you are somehow slacking off on staying alive. Silicon Valley’s latest fascination—converting human [...]

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Before You Buy That Online Peptide: What Every Adult Over 60 Needs to Know About DIY Injections

Health and Wellness

• 4 MIN. READ

If you have spent any time scrolling through health forums recently, you may have noticed promises of eternal youth delivered not in a magical fountain, but in a tiny glass vial ordered from a website that also happens to sell wholesale laboratory gear. The allure of turning back the clock [...]

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Early Dinners Are Trending—And Doctors Big-Time Approve

Health and Wellness

• 4 MIN. READ

If you have paid any attention to social media lately, you might have noticed younger generations boasting about their latest “trend”: dining at 5:00 p.m. While TikTok creators are currently celebrating the “early bird dinner” like they just discovered sliced bread, those of us over 60 know the truth—we weren’t [...]

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The Non-Death Loss: Why Stopping Your Favorite Sport Feels Like Grief

Health and Wellness

• 4 MIN. READ

If you have spent decades lacing up running shoes at 6:00 AM, reaching your 60s can feel a bit like your knees have hired a joint union representative to hand you a formal cease-and-desist letter. You tell yourself it is just a temporary twinge, right up until your orthopedic specialist [...]

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