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Staying Well Past Forty in Febrero

February 3rd, 2026
Thrive and Strive into your 90s • Issue 2026-01

Feb 7, 2026

Do you recall that the name of our shortest month of each year comes from Ancient Rome’s celebration of purification and atonement, called Februalia? Who is ready for atonement and purification – before and after:
1. Super Bowl LX this Sunday
2. Girl Scout cookie consumption
3. Valentine’s Day bubbly and irresistible chocolate?
Credit: Nano Banana

Your Heart!

Ah, it is that time to help my Live Well San Diego volunteers screen our community members for Blood Pressure and to coach about ways to Love Their Hearts.

Cupid Chocolate

Hmmm, Did Hallmark Cards and Willy Wonka invent this great American Holiday?

I’ll begin by sharing that I get behind Valentine’s Day far better than I support Punxsutawney Phil’s shadowy prognostics yesterday. 🙂

Duh –

Next, what’s not to LOVE about a day with its roots in a mix of: ancient Roman, pagan, and Christian traditions? Now, that is diversity! Fertility and pairing certainly come in varied sizes, shapes and colors – don’t they?

I’m told that “VD” dually originated from the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia in mid-February, and the martyrdom of Saint Valentine on February 14th in the year 270 AD.

I reckon that a buying trip to SEE’s Candies is a better way to celebrate with Cupid, then it is to be clubbed, beaten and beheaded as Saint Valentine was….

What’s not to love about a snuggly day with moderate consumption of healthy dark chocolate, and a little break from a eating-to-live lifestyle? I argue that I won’t become a glutton as long as I quickly reboard the wellness train.

Supplement of da Month

You know my experiential bent for sharing – right? It is in my nature to transform scientific knowledge to practicality to help you on your journey..

Within that context, let’s examine Fenugreek and learn from my year-long trial, plus leverage centuries of Ayurvedic and Chinese healing.

Fenugreek herbs sniff-test like maple syrup and offer no-kidding benefits for your metabolic health. Here are the three biggest reasons why it’s worth remembering as a natural supplement:

🌱 1. It’s Buffers your blood sugar: Fenugreek seeds are high in soluble fiber. This helps slow carbohydrate absorption and may improve how your body handles insulin.

🤱 2. It’s a New Mom Favorite: It is widely used traditionally to help boost milk supply during breastfeeding.

🔥 3. Drumroll – Fenugreek Just Might Boost Libido: Some smaller credible studies suggest fenugreek may support healthy testosterone levels and libido in men.

Fun Fact: If you amp up your ingestion of Fenugreek, you might smell faintly of maple syrup, says this Vermonter. And, guys might get a little bump for their sexercise too.

Do chat with your MD or Care Team before starting a new supplement or ergogenic, particularly if you are managing blood sugar issues.

Jejune

Today, this word jejune suggests that something or someone is uninteresting or dry. Closer to its Latin origin, jejunus meant Fasting – which is the reason for my paragraph of sharing.

As your personal KaBoomer Lab Rat and Field Mouse, I have tried time-restricted eating (TRE) for 18-24 hour periods once a week in this New Year.
- My principal reason is to learn and share.
- Yet, I also believe a little hunger is very good for our bodily systems to counteract cellular senescence (I do drink water and coffee, so it is not a total FASTING period – a la Ramadan).
- Take a moment to read why Autophagy is important for healthy aging in my personaltrainertoday blog, or in the valid research from “Doctor Google”.
- My quicklook?
  - Yes, I jigger my daily energy equation by missing two meals.
  - Yes, my HR, HRV and resilience are favorably changed.
  - Yes, the lining of my gut has a healing, rather than working window.
  - Yes, my “Dolphin Brain” is more engaged, and I do better on NY Times puzzles under the influence of TRE.
  - No, I do not perform heavy resistance training or HIIT when fasted, as there is a likelihood of going catatonic.
Unless your medical care team says, NO, I suggest that you give it a whirl as did I. Using the active process of autophagy (called exercise to sweat), and the passive lifestyle process of time restricted eating – you just might defer or avoid a Nursing Home. More about that is available in the podcast that Pamela Wilson and I had in CoVid days (2021)

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Liver Time

January 6th, 2026
In our age of “Mad Men” marketing, you may recall the phrase, “It’s Miller Time.”

I didn’t mean this (Reggie) Miller:

This Miller isn’t my focus either:

Credit: Tenor

Well, to usher in our new calendar year, I’m penning useful information about Liver Time... Our Liver Time… Here we go…

On occasion, or regularly, do you fell that a good night’s sleep is unobtainium?

Sure, many factors contribute to your and my sleep quality or inequality. Stress, alcohol consumption, and late meals are three top takeaways from mimicking Morpheus in your slumber.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) identifies the liver and its impact on our ability to achieve deep, restorative sleep. You know, sleep deprivation can be tantamount to being drunk. And Cortisol levels can rise with sleep problems. And your endocrine system’s capacity to produce happy hormones is impaired. And…..,.

If you awake between 1 and 3 AM in your biorhythm, your liver might be hollering for a liver lifeline.

Role Playing

In TCM, the liver’s role is vital for smooth flows of Qi (life energy that we pronounce “chee”) and for healthy blood flow throughout your or my body. The largest gland in our body can role play your emotions, like anger, frustration, and irritability.

When the liver function is balanced, Qi and blood can flow freely, emotions are regulated, and your quality sleep is long and restorative.

However, a “stagnant” or “overheated” liver can disrupt this delicate balance for too many Americans – like me.

This specific time window is known as the “Liver Time” in the TCM organ clock.

Credit: WordPress AI image.

During these nocturnal organ hours, a healthy and balanced liver is cleansing blood, processing emotions, and preparing the body for a new day dawning. If the liver is overburdened or out of balance, its energetic activity during this time can awaken you, leaving you feeling restless and unable to fall back asleep.

But Wait, There is More!

Beyond the 1-3 AM wake-ups, an imbalanced liver can manifest issues via :
- Emotional Irritability: Frequent anger, frustration, resentment, or temper.
- Digestive Issues: Bloating, indigestion, bitter tastes, irregular bowel movements.
- Physical Discomfort: Headaches , muscle tension, eye strain, dark circles under the eyes.
- Energy Levels: Fatigue, lack of mojo, feeling sluggish.
Approach Liver Health and Better Sleep

“Detoxing” is how we support our liver’s natural functions with lifestyle adjustments. Here are my suggestions for you to nurture that unsung and oft-overworked organ. Yes! You can improve sleep, especially during those crucial 1-3 AM hours:

1. Eat to Live with a Liver-Friendly Diet:
- Go Green: Enjoy dark leafy greens. Yup! Chlorophyll helps your liver cleanse the blood.
- Better Bitters: And not just in adult cocktails 🙂 Boost your bile output with dandelion greens, radicchio, endive, and artichokes.
- Sour Power: Citrus fruits.Sip warm lemon water in the morning to stimulate liver function.
- Cruciferous Vegetables: Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage support liver enzyme processes.
- Limit Processed and Ultra-processed “Foods” (UPFs): Please shun refined sugars, unhealthy fats, and processed foods that burden American livers.
- Hydrate: Drink plenty of filtered water throughout each day to help flush toxins from your metabolism.
2. Manage Stress and Emotions:
- Mindfulness & Meditation: Calm your mind and reduce emotional swings.
- Breathe Deeply: Release tension and chill.
- Journaling: Express your emotions on paper to promote them rather than suppress your liver Qi.
- Nature Connection: Invest time in our great outdoors to ground and to reduce stressors of the rat races you find yourself in…
3. Move:
- Walk: Strolls after meals aid digestion and help move Qi.
- (As I wrote last month in my recent Know your Nuts and Bolts post, that post-meal stroll can help with manly bladder control too.)
- Yoga & Tai Chi: Mindfully move your body to improve circulation and help release emotional blockages that occur near your solar plexus chakra (Manipura). Don’t neglect “belly” or diaphragm breathing, please.
- Stretching: Stretch muscle and fascia fibers to open your flanks or body sides with frontal and transverse (twisting) plane movements for better Qi along your liver meridians. Moves that I practice are:
  - ankle (tic toc) rotations from a lying or seated position,
  - side stretches,
  - torso twists, and
  - wide-legged “stances or “sumo steps.”
4. Herbal X Factors :

A qualified TCM practitioner can personalize recommendations for herbal formulas. Herbs traditionally used to support liver health include:
- Dandelion Root: Known for its cleansing properties.
- Milk Thistle: Supports liver cell regeneration.
- Schisandra Berry: An adaptogen that protects the liver and supports overall well-being.
- Chrysanthemum Flowers: Used to clear “liver heat” and calm the eyes.
5. Is your Sleep Routine…Routine?:
- Wind-Downs: Create your relaxing evening routine that signals to your body it’s time to sleep. This could include a warm bath, reading, or gentle stretching.
- Limit your late Screen Time: Avoid electronic devices for at least an hour before your beddy-bye, as their blue lights can disrupt your natural melatonin production.
- Optimal Sleep Environment: Ensure your bedroom is dark, quiet, and cool. Skip the PJs, open that window a crack, and massage your vagus nerve system before turning out the lights.
Dream On America

Please think about your liver health through ancient TCM lenses. You just might improve your vital sleep, particularly for any 1-3 AM wake-ups.

Eat liver-friendly foods, manage your stressors, move often and mindfully, and consider herbal support, as I am now trying with milk thistle.

Show your liver some love and pave the dreamy way for more peaceful, restorative nights. Self-scanning your body’s imbalanced signals is important for you to thrive and strive.

Would Poor Richard mislead us? One Almanack aphorism concerned temperance. Most of us know that part of the liver’s imbalance at nighttime could be alcohol-related…

“Franklin believed the liver’s greatest enemy was the “Punchbowl.” He often warned that what we drink today, we pay for tomorrow—both in money and in health.

“He that spills the Rum, loses that only; He that drinks it, often loses both that and himself.”

Get unstuck to thrive and strive. Morpheus would want it that way 🙂

Stay well past forty! Thanks for reviewing this Liver listing.

Please join our big KAHUNA movement to banish cardiovascular disease in America!

DF
December ’25 Deals

December 10th, 2025
Welcome to our December edition, fellow Healthitude enthusiasts!

Thank you for investing a bit of your personal capital to sustain your long-term physical portfolio with a lifeline from my operating system!

When you reach the bottom of this article, you will find attractive Deals that become a Win-win for the big KAHUNA and for you.

Resolve?

We are halfway through this 2025-2026 Holiday season.

How are you doing, physically and mentally, at this Halftime show?
- Those two to 5 pounds of added white fat for many Americans are harder to shed as we age. ‘Tis far better to avoid the storage of white fat – unless you plan to be a member of the next Donner Party…
Naughty and Nice

Here’s hope that those North Pole elves have you covered.

Please be uber-nice to those strangers, acquaintances, and compadres with whom you chinwag through and beyond this most wonderful time of the Year.

Well, whether the Holidays (Hannukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Festivus…) are truly wonderful depends on matters within and beyond our control. So, let’s commit to working on those factors that we can control – like mental anguish, loneliness, and poor lifestyle choices. Surely I know that you get plenty of coaching from Madison Avenue and digital sources about Holiday Happiness.
- I pile on with my counsel that motion and sweat can tackle the causes of Holiday unhappiness. And, it does not take hours to move your muscles and joints or generate happy hormones. Here is one of my “atomic” Holiday habits:
a. before a party or social event – I do 25 bodyweight squats, 25 pushups, and 25 Dead Bug moves.
- Granted, these are all in our sagittal (front to back) planes of motion. Yet I said “atomic”, didn’t I? If you go for the gusto before the fruitcake, eggnog, glögg, or lutefish helpings, add sets of side-to-side and twisting motions. Trust me that these little efforts count toward your enduring physical portfolio.
Recall that a prime reason for failing resolutions is that folks choose goals that are too ambitious and actions are too irregular. Yes, we can fix that!

Hoosier Daddy

Curt “I win, Google it” Cignetti is my unquestioned Coach of the Year. Talk about turnarounds! About-facing from the role of biggest loser in NCAA football history to this year’s undefeated Big Dog is remarkable.

Coach Cignetti is a mastermind of process. His key point for us aging athletes is that it is far more important to adapt and to work smarter than it is to work harder. I commend to you today’s Wall Street Journal article that highlighted Coach C’s adaptive, work-smarter system. Yes, it is important to do the work in that safe zone of your Dose-Response curve. When there, remember to adapt and make your movements count rather than count your movements. Go IU!

Stocking Stuff

This month, as we reflect on the past year and look forward to new beginnings, we’re focusing on the foundational element of Strength and a critical health topic: Hypertension.

Let’s dive in and keep our Healthspan UNAbated!

1. Medical Section: Avoid High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Hypertension (High Blood Pressure, or HBP) is often called the “silent killer” because it frequently has no outward developmental symptoms. However, it significantly increases your risk for both a heart attack and a stroke. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is your best defense!
- Dietary Changes: Follow the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, focusing on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and lean proteins, and limiting saturated and total fats.
- Sodium Reduction: Aim for less than 1 teaspoon of sodium per day, especially if you have HBP. – which too many countrymen do! Read nutrition labels carefully, as processed and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are a major source. Fact: We Americans average 2 teaspoons of sodium a day. Even if you sweat a lot from healthy exercise, it is prudent to consume and absorb “right” levels of sodium from natural foods.
- Exercise: Get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity (like brisk walking) or 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week. Note that these are our Government’s “blanket” guidelines for Joe and Jill Six Pack. Many of you readers safely exceed these weekly guideline totals.
- Limit Alcohol: For those who drink, it is prudent to limit intake to two drinks per day for men and one for women – or less. The jury is still out as to whether abstinence is a healthitude booster. For now, practically follow the adage that moderation is key!
- Know Your Numbers: Regular blood pressure checks are essential. A normal blood pressure reading is generally considered below 120/80 mmHg when you are at rest.
2. 7-S Segment: Focus on STRENGTH

Strength is more than just lifting weights; it’s the foundational enabler for two other S’s in our framework – Stability and Stamina as we age. Building and maintaining muscle mass offers tangible benefits well past forty:
- Boosted Metabolism: Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat, even at rest.
- Better Bone Health: Resistance exercises put needed stress on your bone matrices, stimulates bone density, and reduces risk of osteopenia/osteoporosis.
- Improved Balance and Coordination: Stronger muscles support joint mobility, helping to prevent falls. Or, if a fall occurs, those sarcomeres serve as capable shock absorbers. Remember that rehearsed exercises for our neuromuscular systems and proprioception (as your sixth sense) are your flexible insurance riders.
- Functional Fitness: Makes everyday activities—like carrying groceries or standing up from a chair—safer and easier.
Action Step: Incorporate 2 full-body strength training sessions per week if you are a Kaboomer. If you are a GenX, then 3 is your “go to” number of sessions per seek. Use resistance bands, free weights, or even your own body weight (squats, push-ups).

Repeat after me as your guide, resisted motion is fine medicine!

3. Myth Buster: The “Younger You” Myth

Myth: The key to longevity is trying to look, act, and exercise exactly as you did when you were 20-something.

Fact: Attempting to replicate your youthful self can lead to injury and burnout. The key to successful longevity is rational Adaptation and Consistency. Your body is constantly changing, but it remains incredibly adaptable. Take another look at Coach Cignetti’s winning recipe in this article to reinforce this point.
- Focus on Healthspan, not just Lifespan: Prioritize exercises and habits that maintain your quality of life and ability to function independently, rather than chasing a personal best from decades ago.
- Embrace Progressive Overload: Keep challenging your body safely (e.g., gradually increasing weight or distance), but always listen to what your body needs, including adequate recovery.
4. X Factors from KABOOMER, Strong to Save, and soon Burden? or Banish

X Factor aren’t secret pills, or fountains of youth. Rather, these “‘lil bit extras” can help us on our continuing adventures, with long-term returns in our physical portfolios.

Today’s subjective X Factor is Adopting a Growth Mindset and Purpose. With purposeful and immersive efforts- rather than brain-dead ones – (such as volunteering, mentoring, or mastering a new skill), your brain stays engaged, your stress levels decrease, and your motivation to maintain physical health soars. Purpose fuels Healthitude.

5. Dave’s Latest Checkout: Fitness Watches

This month, I’m highlighting the Apple Fitness Watch (or similar smartwatches/fitness trackers). These devices are powerful computational and tracking assets to monitor and motivate your Healthitude journey:
- Activity Rings/Goals: Provides a visual, satisfying way to track daily movement, exercise, stress levels and resilience and step counts.
- Heart Rate Monitoring: This watch function is crucial for tracking heart health, especially for those managing or preventing conditions like HBP (Hypertension) and even A-fibrillation. Remember that any device can offer false positives and miss actual occurrences.
  - Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Heart Age estimation are also vital measures for trending!
- Sleep Tracking: Offers insight into the quality and duration of your restorative sleep. Yes, light sleep counts. Yet, Deep Sleep and Rapid Eye Movement (REM) segments are invaluable.
- Fall Detection: A powerful safety feature that can automatically call emergency services if a serious fall is detected.
Tip: Use accessory data that the watch provides as insight, not as a stick to beat yourself with. Progress and favorable trends are our game for life!

6.  Healthitude Humor

Why did the 40-year-old weightlifter break up with the 20-something  cardio enthusiast?

He said their relationship didn’t have enough resistance!

7.  December’s Fitness Haiku

Cold wind blows outside,

Strong muscles defy the frost,

Warm purpose remains!

8.  Join Us in the Big KAHUNA Movement!

The KAHUNA Movement is about collective commitment to Keeping America’s Healthspan UNAbated.

We reject the notion that accelerated or “normal” decline is inevitable. We are committed to strength, stability, and purpose! Yes, we can change the nation’s trajectory of glothic behaviors, and prevent preventable dis-eases. Yes! We can chase yesterdays of 7-12 vital years. Trust me.

What is a personal KAHUNA Commitment?
- Know Your Numbers (Blood pressure, cholesterol, weight).
- Actively Engage in Strength Training and Stamina efforts.
- Hydrate properly.
- Under-eat (situationally leverage Intermittent fasting and/or calorie moderation).
- Nurture Restorative Sleep.
- Adopt a Life of Purpose.
Are you ready to become part of a Big KAHUNA? Share this newsletter with friends who are also dedicated to thriving well past forty. Let’s inspire the nation!

Here is the Deal (cited in your welcome above)

By joining the big KAHUNA movement and our mailing list by MLK’s Holiday (Monday, January 19th 2026) –
1. you will receive from Well Past Forty LLC a digital copy of either Kaboomer or Strong to Save as your Healthitude operating system and guide,
2. You will be eligible for a Buy one Get one (BOGO) Deal when our new FutureFit online training package is released in 2026,
3. You will be eligible for a Half-price offer for my new Book, Burden? or Banish! to be released in 2026.
Stay #strongtosave. Stay #wellpastforty.

Back with you next month for 2026’s first newsletter,

Dave Frost
Our Calendar ages are so 6 7 !

October 21st, 2025
Six Seven is a gone-viral “brainrot” that surprisingly fits our topic for this column.

I am not talking about trivial Internet activities or sayings of teens that made the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

Rather, I focus on the variable separation of our calendar years from vital fitness years. Yup, calendar years have “some” actuarial reasons for being – like mandatory retirement ages, or Social Security/ Medicare start times. And, sure, it is pleasing to celebrate many candles on birthday treats as we age. However, calendar ages become 6 7 if we focus on vital healthspan and healthitude years. After all, what good are birthday candles if we cannot blow ’em out like this, a discouraged and winded elder?

I hone in on three vital estimators that you should put in your healthitude toolkit.
1. The first is Dr. Thomas Perl’s Living to 100 calculator. This free and anonymous questionnaire pegs the factors that determine your and my lifespan prospects. Think of seat belts, no smoking, and dental flossing as life extenders! You know that I say there is more to vital lives than “just longevity” – right?
2. The second estimator focuses on America’s top killer – heart disease prospects. The American Heart Association’s PREVENT calculator is an evolving “yardstick” that now includes vitals for older folks like me. Yes, the PREVENT acronym is relevant: Predicting Risk of cardiovascular disease EVENTs … This tool is for “clinicians to help people understand their risk for developing heart disease, stroke, or heart failure. It is designed to estimate risk based on health factors that assess cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health.”

I particularly like the inclusion of metabolic health in this PREVENT estimator as it is intertwined with cardiovascular health in systematic ways!

If your medical team doesn’t use the PREVENT tool to help you evaluate your CVH strengths and weaknesses – it should!

3. The third tool that I cite is the very credible and valuable estimator developed by a Norwegian research organization for VO2 maximum. Our capacity for ingesting Oxygen to produce motion and work is vital. Period.

I challenge anyone who is interested in healthspan and healthitude to get familiar with and to improve VO2 maximum. Yes, you can!

Why?

My personal example today:

The average VO2 max for a 73-year old male is 35 ml/kg/min.

I am blessed, and work hard to have a VO2 max of ~ 48 ml/kg/min. That is the cardiovascular capacity of a 42-year-old male.

I’ll take that as a reward for my hard work, and acknowledge a little blessing of nature.

How much sweat is recommended for you and me to improve our fitness age and change the trajectory of physical decline? IT DEPENDS. I have written about the evolving awareness of DOSE-RESPONSE curves for each athlete.

Credit

Too much of a good thing is not always wonderful. The issues center on acute inflammation and recovery phases.

Trust sports cardiologists if you don’t believe me!

Until next time,

DF

ps – Stay Well Past Forty!
Ba Dee Ya

September 11th, 2025
Yup – “golden dreams were shiny days.”

Who doesn’t love September and its gradual transitions? Apples are ripening, days are getting a wee bit cooler, and Indian Summer awaits us in the Northern Hemisphere. For me, logging miles for a long Charity Bicycle Ride and training for the Head of the Charles Regatta (again) are highlights.

This weblog will soon shift to happiness with lyrics written by

Earth, Wind and Fire’s Maurice White – SEPTEMBER (1978).

Never Again

First, with Old Glory flying in front of my house today on September 11th, here’s to Welles Crowther, the “Let’s Roll” heros of Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, PA, and the thousands of others whose lives tragically ended 24 years ago on 9/11/2001.

National Grandparent’s Day [NGD]

Mary and I earned modest accolades from our grandkids on that first Sunday-after-Labor-Day holiday.
- Did you recall that the Forget Me Not is the official NGD flower?
Here’s to you – Paddos, Nanas, Omas, Opas, and Abuelos/Abuelas as role models, counselors, and patient listeners. As my forebear, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote, the Felicities of Age can be super.

Learning what macronutrients can help an older metabolism like mine is one of those felicities…

Six Special Food Items

There is little doubt in my former military mind that “right” foods are MEDICINE. Very good medicine…

Dr William Li holds a complementary view on lifestyle diets – Mediterranean and MIND Diets as natural metabolic boosters. He champions a technical term that attracts me as I strive to down-age – Angiogenesis…
- Angiogenesis – or the formation of new blood capacity that is diet-related.
Take these half dozen natural medicines to heart, mind, and body, please:

1 Tart Cherries

2 Lentils

3 Avocados

4 Beets / Beetjuice

5 Sardines/ Wild Salmon

6 Pumpkin Seeds.

Shop, then enjoy these items to improve your clean, anti-inflammatory diet plus rev up that metabolism of yours.

Lifestyle Diet principles for our modern maturity

Important things can be both simple and hard. Here are today’s takeaways for lifestyle nutrition:
- Balanced meals with protein, fiber, and healthy fats.
  - Enjoy foods with good Omega-3/ Omega-6 ratios
- Stay hydrated by drinking water throughout the day.
- Limit processed foods and watch consumption of excess sugar – particularly in processed and ultra-processed foods!.
- Monitor portion sizes of macronutrients to maintain a healthy weight.
  - This gets challenging as calendar years extend.
- Include calcium and vitamin D to support your bone health.
  - Prevalence of falls is a major concern of aging. Yet fractures or injuries after falls are an even bigger concern.
Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMF) – Friend or Foe?

I don’t lose sleep over non-ionizing radiation sources that surround us in our lives. Such radiation is not thought to have the capacity to directly alter our DNA…Yet, I am concerned, nevertheless.

Why?

Low level energies emanating from mobile phones, 5G transmitters, microwave appliances, RF routers and hotspots, and power lines is pollution, plain and simple.

Who likes pollution?

Hopefully we will learn better ways to shield our brains and bodies for safety. For now, experts discuss EMF pollution within these contexts:
1. Oxidative stress
2. Nerve system problems for some folks and
3. Cancer.
You may know me as a technology advocate for things that serve society. Yey, electric and magnetic fields have a dark side of some magnitude. Be careful out there in this seventh month of the old Gregorian calendar.

Stay well past forty,

DF
MORE in a dog’s world

April 29th, 2025

I just learned that the title of a 1962 travel movie by two Italians, “Mondo Cane”, means “a dog’s world” in the King’s English. I have a tad of difficulty linking man’s best friend with globetrotting.

So it goes.

My newfound awareness stemmed from a Doctor Google search about “MORE.” Why was I looking for more? Well, most of us do.

Yet my trigger for that little bit extra was a local priest’s homily about “MORE” as a Easter transformation. I am not going all the way with transformation in a Christian sense, I promise. Yet, transforming is a fine verb for the lesser yet vital goal of self care and improvement. So, I’m not penning a metamorphosis from chrysalis to butterfly. Rather, I am musing about the maturation of that butterfly. So, now you have the start of a page 2 story for my little journey from a ’62 flick to church and now to us on April 29th, 2025. More from page 2: Sir Thomas More, that great thinker and author of Utopia [published in 1516 A.D.] sets my stage with his thought for individuals and their society:

“Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich.”

Sounds like Sir Thomas read and followed the rational thoughts and deeds of stoics. You see, stoics indifferently viewed ownership and wealth as means, not ends. “Stoics believed that true wealth resided within, in qualities like virtue, self-mastery, and contentment. They foresaw wealth’s potential to distract from the pursuit of inner well-being.

Everyone is Rich

Hmmm. This purported richness from antiquity beckons a 20th century metaphor of Earl Nightingale that we are in the midst of “acres of diamonds” – IF we look carefully. Inner wealth and soft skills of virtue, mastery, contentment and purpose sound valuable – don’t they?

Question: Do we need lots and lots of things to work on our self improvement and self care? The one-word answer is “no.”

Got a towel, a PBA-free water bottle, and a good mental outlook?

Then, my friend, you are good to go and to look carefully.

Surely… fitness appliances, workout accessories and products that are likely made in China :), and of course supplements or ergogenic things may selectively help you. Yet, those items are beyond “self” – right?

What time and effort are needed to find a wall, a small floor space, or free-standing space to move your joints for isotonic deeds? Just a little!

What more do you need to contract your muscles in isometric ways? Not much!

It is springtime in our hemisphere, so mindfully breathe in the renewed sensory wealth around us. Then, make the time to sweat a little in the spirit of Healthitude.

Remember that acronym of mine – Healthitude – and its components?

Here is a strong to save refresher:

H Hearty

E Endocrines

A Attitude (remember your Mind and Body are aligned)

L Lungs (Oxygen is life and breath)

T Transform

H Healthspan

I Invest

T Train

U Upbeat / Utopian riches

D Desire

E EXERCISE

I look forward to a chat with you about this combo approach for healthspan and attitude. Look around you, as there often is MORE – – – even in a competitive “dog’s world.”

Stay well past forty,

DF