✔ Here’s what you should do instead My weekly three best insights from me, Medium and the web to help you live longer better. From me … 1. Stretching before exercise is a mistake, here’s why and what to do Most gym classes I have experienced or observed start with stretching. Research has established that compared to warming up with mobility movements, stretching leads to more injuries. Look at it…

How to look stronger, prouder and use less effort — Running slumped is something that I see often. The people running slumped look tired. Here’s the irony, when you slump it will make you more tired. Here are three tips to get you looking stronger, prouder, and be able to sustain your running with less effort. I’ve been running daily…

Plus, you’re more predictable than you’d like to believe — My weekly three best insights from me, Medium and the web to help you live longer better. Shopping TV offers a course of eye exercises with a promise that you can throw away your glasses. Should you buy it ?— item #3. In some human fields of activity, such as…

And even better if at stage 5 of ripeness … — Who would have thought that bananas promote our gut health, helping grow beneficial bacteria that ultimately strengthens our bones, and delays neural degeneration in our brain? It all starts with inulin, which is in bananas and which begins to be digested only when it reaches our gut. Resistant starches — prebiotics pass to our gut Inulin is a…

Plus, getting to know your stage-5 banana will help your health — My weekly three best insights from me, Medium and the web to help you live longer better. Should you stretch before running? Seventy-seven percent of runners answer incorrectly— item #3. We’re learning more about the importance of gut health every day. Bananas feed our gut. …

Free radicals age you prematurely — It’s said that our skin is a window into our inner health. ​That may not be true for marathon runners, whose skin belies their inner fitness. For others, naturally healthy-looking skin says something about how we take generally care of our health. For skin, damage prevention is the number one…

Plus, more headaches? Neck muscle strength will reduce them … — My weekly three best insights from me, Medium and the web to help you live longer better. Working from home has led to more headaches— strengthening your neck helps reduce them, here’s how — item #3. Are you a logical person? How’s it serving you, or are you serving it…

And improve your balance and posture — I found myself sweating, even though I was only walking up a gently sloping path. The effort surprised me because I run 5km daily and sprint up steeper slopes without too much effort. That day convinced me that walking backwards had a lot to offer. Doing it was challenging the…

Protects your brain and reduces your wrinkles — We know about the immune-support properties of vitamin D, currently the subject of many studies examining its ability to help our immune system resist Covid19. We know about the antioxidant effects of vitamin C, and vitamin E, both of which limit the impact of free radicals and reduce chronic inflammation. …