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Recent studies show that our decision-making skills improve as we age, and that our happiness levels peak at age 82. Dr Daniel Levitin draws on cutting-edge research from neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate the cognitive benefits of getting older. He challenges the beliefs that surround the ageing process, including our assumptions around memory loss and our focus on lifespan instead of 'healthspan'.

Your body is built to move and if you're not giving it what it needs you're not counteracting the effects of the technology-dependence and sedentary living that come with our modern way of life. After decades spent working with pro-athletes and Olympians, mobility pioneers Kelly and Juliet Starrett began thinking about the physical wellbeing of the rest of us. The answers lie in a simple formula for basic mobility maintenance: 10 tests + 10 physical practices = 10 ways to make your body work better.

Designed specifically for women, this individualized six-week intermittent fasting program is the sustainable solution to help you feel and look your absolute best. Based on the scientifically proven 16:8 fasting model, what makes this program unique is that it is geared toward your hormonal needs at every stage in life - whether you are cycling or in perimenopause, menopause, or beyond. With meal plans and 50 recipes, along with advice for supercharging your fast, this plan will transform your life, slow down the aging process, and help you reclaim your health and well-being.

Discover the ultimate secrets to lifelong wellness and graceful aging, even if you're starting later in life... Have you ever felt overwhelmed by health information? Seeking concrete steps to improve your wellness and longevity but don't know where to start? Feeling like age or physical limitations are holding you back from a fulfilling life? You're not alone – and the solution is here. Inspired by a personal health crisis that put his wife in the ICU, the author embarked on a transformative wellness journey.

Are you tiptoeing around the unpredictable world of dementia care, battling exhaustion, and wondering if you'll ever regain control of your life again? But imagine if there was a helping hand guiding you, soothing your overwhelming emotions, and providing real-life solutions to your caregiving dilemmas. Your #1 ally in breaking free from the caregiving chaos is closer than you think.

Reassuring, honest, funny, and most of all empowering, Great Sex Starts at 50 is the must-have sex and relationships book for men and women hitting half a century with little sign of slowing down. There's no denying that something happens to us sexually at 50. From menopause to the mixed blessing of Viagra to other challenges that go beyond the physical: How do you ignite desire after decades with the same person?

In Grief Day by Day, Jan Warner draws on her own extensive experience and the experiences of the 2 million followers on her Grief Speaks Out Facebook page to offer hope in its most practical form. This audiobook does not look to offer a solution to grief. Rather, it provides supportive, useful guidance to help you create a life in which peace, and even gratitude, can coexist with your grief. There is no “right way” to grieve, and there is no right way to use this book.

Ageless Aging presents a pioneering new way for women to age—an ascent that includes feeling youthful and vital while gaining wisdom, resilience, and experience. It provides a holistic plan that helps women take advantage of the scientific, medical, psychological, and spiritual tools available to them as they grow older.

In What Does It Feel Like to Die?, Jennie Dear combines the latest research and medical findings with her own experiences as a hospice volunteer and caregiver to answer the questions we all want to know. As a long-time hospice volunteer, Jennie Dear has helped countless patients, families, and caregivers cope with the many challenges of the dying process. Inspired by her own personal journey with her mother's long-term illness, Dear demystifies the experience of dying for everyone whose lives it touches.

Are you suffering with the symptoms of menopause and/or perimenopause? Are you looking for some relief from pain, memory loss, brain fogging, hot flashes, and physical changes? This audiobook will offer you respite and relief from the long-term difficulties menopause causes, to give you hope for the future management of symptoms and help you love yourself and the woman you are becoming.

This book explains the new discovery that lack of water in the body - chronic dehydration - is the root cause of many painful degenerative diseases: asthma, allergies, hypertension, excess body weight, and some emotional problems, including depression. The book explores the damaging effects of dehydration in the fourth dimension of time.

For too long, women have been approaching menopause with a sense of dread and finality. Often, they don't want to talk about it until they're undeniably experiencing it—and even then might suffer symptoms in silence, either embarrassed to speak openly, or dejectedly resigned to thinking that years of discomfort and mood swings are just unavoidable. An M.D. with an appealing east-meets-west approach to women's health, Dr. Tasneem (known as Dr. Taz) has spent her career battling these outdated stereotypes and mindsets.

Are you having trouble getting rid of belly fat? Struggling to lose weight, build muscle, and achieve your health goals? Many men in their 40s and beyond face the same challenges. Worse, your testosterone levels naturally decrease every year, leading to weight gain, decreased energy, and a loss of muscle mass. Learn a simple-to-follow nutrition plan that naturally increases testosterone and revs up your fat-burning metabolism. It’s simple, tasty, and insanely effective!

Here is a great gift of wisdom and humour for anyone coping with actual aches and pains. Based on the author's own experience as a hip-replacement patient, she provides funny insider advice about coping with the ordeals of surgery, a hospital stay, and at-home convalescence.

Scientists have only recently unlocked the wondrous potential of vagus nerve stimulation in addressing a truckload of the most debilitating health issues that face man. And as the research still rages on, we are left with a disparate body of researches, each one hailing the powers of the vagus nerve on their own. This audiobook ties together all the research, distilling them so you can get all the information you need.

This inspirational and lively book tells you how to create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. It shows the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself - and that includes your mind as well as your body. With mind and body exercises to keep your energy spiraling up and prompts to help you identify what you really want and care about, Body Kindness helps you let go of things you can't control and embrace the things you can by finding the workable daily steps that fit you best.

Is it just me? We gnaw on that, don't we? Is it just me? Well, look around. Look at the rage, the resolution, the 'hear me roar', the panic, the power, the chin hairs, the shame, the empathy, the conversation, the sheer potential. Welcome to Midulthood. A place where we recognise that we are all more alike than we are unalike. Of course it's not just you. If we're not in it together, we're not in it at all....

"5 Pathways to Vagus Nerve Mastery for Women Over 40" is a groundbreaking guide that unlocks the secret to harnessing your body's Vagus Nerve for better health. This book demystifies how movement therapies, vocal exercises, breathwork, touch therapy, and nutritional insights can collectively optimize vagus nerve function and address menopausal symptoms.

Kim Campbell was a fresh-faced 22-year-old dancer at Radio City Music Hall when a friend introduced her to Glen Campbell, the chart-topping, Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated entertainer. The two performers from small Southern towns quickly fell in love, a bond that produced a 34-year marriage and three children. In Gentle on My Mind, Kim tells the complete, no-holds-barred story of their relationship, recounting the highest of highs - award shows, acclaimed performances, the birth of their children, encounters with Mick Fleetwood, Waylon Jennings, and others.

Trying to live a completely stress-free life is a zero-sum game. The true goal of your relationship with stress is to figure out how to manage it effectively, how to use it to build and support a meaningful, resilient life. In these 18 enriching and inspiring lectures, discover how to manage and minimize the stress in your life. You'll explore the nuances of stress in ways you never really considered. Rooted in scientific findings from experiments, research papers, and case studies, these lectures offer you nothing less than a bold new way of facing (and appreciating) daily life.