1: Do people who have a positive attitude about aging live longer?

More than seven years longer, according to researchers at Yale University.

They followed middle-aged adults for twenty years.  “Those who had a positive view of aging in midlife lived an average of 7.6 years longer than those who had a negative view,” writes Kelly McGonigal in her terrific book The Upside of Stress.

“To put that number … continue reading

1: In 1998, thirty thousand adults in the United States were asked a series of questions about stress.

How much stress had they experienced in the past year?  Do you believe stress is harmful to your health?

“Eight years later, the researchers scoured public records to find out who among the thirty thousand participants had died,” Kelly McGonigal writes in her terrific book The Upside of Stress.

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This week, we’ve focused on the accelerating breakthroughs transforming health and medicine.

“Within the next 10 years the world will rocket into new norms of aging, new population increases, new life spans, and new ways of living,”  Dr. Michael Roizen, Peter Linneman and Albert Ratner write in The Great Age Reboot.

Dr. Mike is the Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic.

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1: The Cleveland Clinic is a globally renowned academic medical center headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. It self-insures over 100,000 team members and their dependents,

In 2008, under the leadership of Chief Wellness Officer Dr. Mike Roizen, the clinic began working to help team members get healthier while reducing both personal and organizational medical costs. Mike, Peter Linneman, and Albert Ratner describe this journey in their book The Great … continue reading

1: “We’ll tell you a familiar story,” Michael Roizen, the Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic, and his co-authors Peter Linneman and Albert Ratner write in The Great Age Reboot: Cracking the Longevity Code for a Younger Tomorrow.

Picture someone receiving a tough medical diagnosis. Their loved ones gather to support them, feeling helpless as they try to help.

“But then something happens. The person … continue reading

“100 years ago, most people couldn’t imagine a world with antibiotics or immunizations. Let alone MRI-guided robotic surgery performed on a patient in Cleveland, Tennessee, by a surgeon in Cleveland, Ohio,” Michael Roizen, the Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic, and his co-authors Peter Linneman and Albert Ratner write in The Great Age Reboot: Cracking the Longevity Code for a Younger Tomorrow.

“But these breakthroughs … continue reading

1: When it comes to nutrition, we get it wrong.

“Fad diets with extreme principles pushed by savvy marketers have dominated the cultural understanding of nutrition over the years,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth.

“But contrary to what these expert marketers might tell us,” he notes, “proper nutrition is quite simple.”

Nothing extreme or complicated is required here.

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1: Moving our bodies isn’t just smart—it’s essential for health and longevity.

“When it comes to movement, the research is clear,” Sahil Bloom writes in his inspiring book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.

“In a 2012 paper published in the Journal of Aging Research, researchers found that all-cause mortality was reduced by a striking 30 to 35 percent in the physically … continue reading

1: The global wellness economy is $4.4 trillion.

Wowza.

“With each new fitness gadget promising perfect abs and each new miracle health food promising youthful vigor, we are forced into a silent battle against the overwhelmingly strong and savvy energy of the world’s best marketers,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth.

“Their jobs depend on convincing us that we need all of it to … continue reading

1: In her book Imaginable, New York Times bestselling author Jane McGonigal takes her readers through what she calls “futures thinking” that “inspires us to take actions today that set us up for future happiness and success.”

The guided exercise has us imagine our future self in great detail.

Imagine that it is our 80th birthday… 

“What are we wearing? Where are we? What’s around us? Who is around … continue reading