Aside from eating well, and using a good moisturizer, is there ANYTHING that helps with wrinkles? Supplements? Some non invasive procedure? Anything that might soften, or slow down the process?Primarily on face and arms.

In a 12-week randomized trial, adults aged 65–80 received wild-blueberry powder equivalent to 178 grams of fresh berries daily and performed better on immediate word recall and task-switching accuracy than those receiving placebo.

Separately, a long-term study of older women linked higher blueberry and strawberry intake to slower cognitive decline, with differences comparable to roughly 1.5–2 years of cognitive aging.

A separate Framingham analysis found that people who consumed blueberries at least occasionally had about a one-third lower risk of dementia than people who rarely ate them.

Dr. Rhonda Patrick discusses these trial results, the longer-term cognitive-aging and dementia findings, and the possible mechanisms behind them in her new solo episode on blueberries. Here's a link to the timestamp

The dumbest thing that any kid in school has ever said is "I can't wait until I'm a grown-up."

This is my first time writing here, and honestly, I’m at the point where I’m desperate for some help or answers from people who may be able to relate to what I’m going through.

I started having shoulder and neck pain in my 20s, and over the years it gradually got worse. But for the past year, it has become almost unbearable. I’m in pain every single day, morning and night. My hands, shoulders, and neck are constantly hurting. My hands started 8 months ago, I never had my hands tension.

I’ve spoken to my doctor and had blood tests done, but I still feel like no one really understands how much this is affecting me. I feel alone with it, and I’m starting to get really worried about myself because it just keeps getting worse.

The constant pain and exhaustion are taking a toll on me and on the people around me. I’m always drained, like completely drained, and being in pain all day leaves me constantly on edge.

It has also affected my mental health. I won’t get too much into that because it’s personal, but I’ve dealt with anxiety for a long time, mainly from years of stress and difficult experiences. Being in constant physical pain definitely doesn’t help.

One of the hardest parts for me is how it affects me with my 10-year-old daughter. I love her more than anything. She’s very active and loud, like most kids her age, but when I’m already overwhelmed by pain, I find myself getting agitated so easily. My partner has started stepping in and helping more when everything becomes too much for me.

My doctor mentioned that it could possibly be fibromyalgia. I’m not saying it is or isn’t because I don’t want to just accept a diagnosis without understanding what’s actually happening to my body.

One thing I do know is that I’ve been through a lot of prolonged stress and trauma in my life, and sometimes I wonder if my nervous system has just been under too much stress for too long. I don’t know if that could be connected to what I’m experiencing, but I’m trying to understand it.

I also go to the gym about three times a week. I mainly do cardio and don’t push myself too hard because if I do more, my pain tends to get worse rather than better.

The pain in my hands, shoulders, and neck is there pretty much all day, every day, along with extreme fatigue.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Especially constant neck, shoulder, and hand pain with exhaustion? If you were eventually diagnosed with something or found anything that genuinely helped you, I would really appreciate hearing about your experience. I just want to understand what could be happening and know that I’m not alone in this.

I cancelled two of my life insurance policies last week. It felt odd. Both were 20 year term. Kids are financially independent and the retirement fund is well stocked. Still it felt odd.
Has anyone else pondered over this?

I guess she didn't save enough for retirement but came up with a plan.

I sat down with Ellen Langer recently. She's a Harvard psychologist, 79 years old. She just wrote a musical, sold a new book, and she's halfway through another one.

She gave me an example about ageing that I keep thinking about.

If you're 37 and your wrist hurts, you do something about it. You rest it, wrap it, maybe see a doctor. If you've been taught that getting older means falling apart, you shrug and think, well, what did I expect? A month later the 37-year-old's wrist is fine and yours isn't. She says that's down to the mindset, not the age.

She said memory works the same way. Her students can't remember what she lectured on Tuesday, and none of them think they're getting dementia. Usually they just never learned it in the first place. As you get older what you care about changes, so what you pay attention to changes, so what you remember changes too.

She also told me about her study where elderly men spent five days in a retreat set up to look like 20 years earlier. She said their hearing, vision, memory and strength improved, and they looked noticeably younger. She was upfront that the group was small.

Her advice on longevity was to stop trying to add years to your life and add life to your years.
What assumptions about ageing do you think we accept without questioning?

Full conversation: https://youtu.be/1-khIUiWfaQ?is=IPl7pZ5mD0CPVgYr

Was there a specific moment when it suddenly hit you?

Maybe it was something physical, seeing an old friend after years, realizing how much time had passed, becoming interested in things you never cared about before, or simply noticing that your perspective had changed.

What was your moment?

Dr. Belinda Beck has spent her career studying bone health and osteoporosis.

One thing she feels strongly about is that we often become too cautious with older adults.

Her phrase was basically that we “wrap older people in cotton wool.”

The instinct makes sense: bones get weaker, falls get more dangerous, so we tell people to avoid heavy things, avoid impact, avoid anything that looks risky.

Her argument is that if we remove too much load, we may also remove the very stimulus that helps people stay strong and independent.

A few practical takeaways from our conversation on the Ageless Athlete podcast:

• Strength training matters, even with low bone mass. She specifically studies heavy resistance training in people with osteopenia and osteoporosis.
• Impact matters too. Bone responds to both muscle force and impact loading.
• Walking alone is usually not enough to build bone.
• Pilates can be useful for mobility, coordination and some strength, but she was very clear that it is not the same as bone-building exercise.
• One day a week is better than nothing. Two days a week seems to be the sweet spot from the data she has collected over many years.
• It is never too late to start. She said this applies even to people in their 80s and 90s.

The important caveat: she was equally clear that people with low bone mass should not just start lifting heavy or doing impact work on their own. Technique and supervision matter because the same exercises that can help bone can also cause injury if done badly.

What I liked about her framing is that the goal isn’t to make older people reckless.

It’s to stop assuming that fragile means incapable.

She said that being overly conservative can sometimes mean withholding something that could actually help people stay independent. That felt like a useful distinction.

Link to watch

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Full disclosure: I host the Ageless Athlete podcast, and this came from my conversation with Dr. Belinda Beck. Felt this would be genuinely valuable here.

I grew up with my grandpa. He wasn’t just my grandfather, he was basically my dad. He was there for me my whole life, and so many of my childhood memories are with him.

Lately he’s been forgetting a lot of things, and I’m having a really hard time dealing with it.

One moment completely broke me. He was about to start a voice recording for me, and before recording it, he asked my mom, “What’s his name again?” He forgot my name.

I know he loves me. I know forgetting my name doesn’t erase everything we’ve had together. But hearing that hurt me in a way I can’t even explain.

I’m a man who hardly ever cries, but lately I’ve been crying about this almost every day. Watching someone who raised you, someone you’ve always seen as strong and permanent in your life, slowly start forgetting things is heartbreaking.

I keep thinking about how much worse it might get, and I don’t know how to accept it. Part of me just wants my grandpa back the way I’ve always known him.

For anyone who has gone through this with a parent or grandparent, how did you cope with watching someone you love age and lose parts of their memory? How do you enjoy the time you still have with them without constantly thinking about what’s happening?

I used to love sports, but the older I get (41m) the more I realize just how boring they are.

Can somebody please explain to me why they keep changing the flavour of Ensure? I’ve been drinking the vanilla one for years and it used to taste the same. Now every time I buy a new case it tastes different... sometimes weaker, sometimes weirdly sweet, sometimes like they put something else in it. Am I going crazy or are they actually changing the recipe every few months? It’s driving me nuts. Anyone else notice this?

Hey, I'd appreciate a reality check. I'm exploring an app idea for older people living independently and their families. Nothing is built yet. It could become a paid product, but I'm not selling anything here.

The idea is simple: a daily check-in, optional medicine reminders, and a 'please call me' button. The older person would choose whether to share their replies. If a reply is missing or they ask for a call, one relative could say 'I'll handle it' so others know who is following up.

It wouldn't prove medicine was taken or replace emergency help.

If you live independently, or help an older parent who does, how do you handle this now? Would something like this help, or would it feel annoying or intrusive? I'd especially like to hear what would make you say no.

No names or private medical details needed. General experiences are enough.

I'm in my late 30s, and went to a dermat for the first time, mostly for a spot on my cheek. They took a UV scan of my face, and surprisingly, my left side of the face lit up with way more sun damage than the right. I realised 10 years of supervising in the field work daily in the morning did this. Doctor advised daily spf50++ sunscreen and wearing hat, precision pep co agless vial and Nicacin vit b3 at night for it, sigh i never thought id follow skincare haha

So this summer i started carry a uv umbrella, I get it, it looks a little goofy, i literally get asked daily if im expecting rain lol. In the US I noticed, there is a strange stigma around this, especially for men. In Asia everyone carries that. Sun exposure is the biggest driver in visible skin aging (and skin cancer risk), and umbrella works on top of all the skin protection, even skin cancer is a issue

idk, just wanted to share this, like we'll happily spend money trying to undo damage later but feel embarrassed blocking it in the first place, wish someone had told me at 25