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It’s normal for your memory to decline as you age. This is due, in part, to the shrinking of your hippocampus, the structure in your brain responsible for converting short-term memories into long-term memories. But can you grow your hippocampus? Yes. Focusing on ways to grow the size of [...]
While we don’t know why we age, we know what ages us. The hardening of our arteries is one of the biggest culprits. Oxygen-rich blood from the heart travels through blood vessels called arteries and is delivered throughout the tissues of the body. As the arteries age, this delivery [...]
With all the confusion about what to eat, and with how often nutrition experts seem to change their minds, I thought it was time to go back to basic culinary medicine and see if I could find groups of recipes and actual foods for specific chronic conditions. In other [...]
One of the most productive and fun seminars I’ve given took place just two weeks ago, here in Santa Barbara, in a nearby rented living room: house call! A group of guys from the Midwest, all members of an executive professional organization, called me a few weeks ahead of [...]
TEDx talks are a privilege to give, and some are life-changing: Al Gore on climate change, Tony Robbins on transformation, Jamie Oliver on childhood obesity. In this first TEDx American Riviera in Santa Barbara, I describe healthy eating that is transformational, based on new research in aging, [...]