Health

As someone who has spent decades looking at, studying, lighting and retouching faces, I am perhaps attuned to the shape, texture, and color of skin in a special way. I also don’t like the burden of extra routines in my day, so I have a rather simple approach to...

By Kimberly FowlerWhen it comes to recovery you’ll often hear about infrared saunas. Unlike a traditional sauna, infrared saunas don’t heat the air around you. Instead, they use infrared lamps (that use electromagnetic radiation) to warm your body directly. You will also see it referred to as far infrared...

Jet lag annihilates me. It is like my version of a really bad hangover. I can’t think, I can’t remember, I get lost frequently, massively grumpy — not an ideal situation. Maybe it gets worse with age, but even 20 years ago it would cripple me. We have spoken...

You’ve got the knowledge and experience that can only come with age —at AGEIST we know these are powerful keys to building, and expanding, your best life in any direction you want. Since no one has yet cracked the code to growing younger, our efforts and energy is better spent making the...

Sleep is one of those things that people know they need to attend to but often don't. If you feel like being scared straight on the topic, I recommend reading "Why We Sleep." The short version is that even a modest disruption in sleep activity has a significant effect on...

Time to Start Thinking About Bone Health As we head into middle age and beyond, we start to be confronted by health issues that we probably didn’t think much about when we were younger. One of these issues/conditions is the thinning of our bones, which for some people, can become...

We get things wrong sometimes. Not often, but when we do, we have highly informed readers who set us straight.We had previously stated in our "3 Things We Like" that UV goes through car windshields and this causes the skin on one’s hands to be at risk of sun...

We are big sun-protection nerds here, and we know that sun protection is confusing at best. It's not as simple as smearing on some Coppertone and hoping for the best anymore. A lot of alleged sun-protection products are far from effective and in some cases are doing much more...

It's a lovely summer day and you are outside enjoying the sun and the air brushing against your skin. The feel of the bike below you is as familiar as walking in trainers. It should be — you’ve been riding a bicycle since you were a little kid. But...

How does fat fit into a healthy diet? Over the years fat has received a lot of bad press and has been linked to obesity and heart disease. Although this is true, there’s a bit more to the story than just saying all fat is bad. What surprises a lot...