How to measure your physical progress in the 80s

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If you can’t measure, you can’t manage People still argue, who said it If you have a goal, and commit a significant portion of your energy and time to getting healthy, you have to see the results of your efforts. You have to be able to measure them. And the yardsticks and the methods of […]

How to keep staying vertical in your 80s

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In mens sana corpore sano W zdrowym ciele zdrowy duch A healthy mind in a healthy body The Romans knew. Peter Attia calls it the Centenarian Decathlon. I call it long-term planning and persistence. You have to know where to go and how to get there. That’s what I want to do in my ninth […]

Emotional Goals to Be Fit at 80

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Here are my emotional goals: *By that age, I have to know my strengths and my weaknesses. *I have to be able to listen when the others want just that. *I have to be able to take, not to shift the blame. *I need to be strong in my difficult moments, and to console others […]

The goals for fitness at 80

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When I was 40, my financial advisor designed our investment and estate plan until the age of 90. It’s ridiculous, I thought. At that time, I worried about the next 10 years. But now I know how thoughtful he was. When we are younger, we don’t think of our health fifty years ahead. But we […]

How to Be Fit at 80

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When I think of a fit person at 80, I don’t see a muscular old man with a perfect white beard, showing his biceps and six-pack, boasting 5 percent body fat. No, these people are often gym rats, using all the pharmacological help to achieve the look, still for many the object of envy. To […]

Is it Good to Live to a 100? Life Span vs Health Span

Methuselah lived to be 969. After the first 100, I imagine, his life had to be miserable. All his peers were gone, and the poor fellow couldn’t find a person to sit in the town’s square and have a cup of coffee with. Regardless of, at the certain point of life, we all either think, […]

Peter Attia’s ‘Outlive’, a User’s Manual to Life

We all want to live forever. But we also know that our lives in the third trimester won’t be as joyful and carefree like in our first. And not that healthy like in our second. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Peter Attia’s monumental book explains how to have a long and satisfying […]

Twenty Things to Do in Your Thirties to Be a Happy Father for the Rest of Your Life.

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” Anonymous “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys’.” Harmon Killebrew […]

Retirement Is a Perfect Time for More Education

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication Leonardo da Vinci Friday morning vascular department conferences are special for me.  For several reasons. Firstly, it’s the time.  The conference starts at 7am.  I usually get up at 5am, get ready, read emails and news.  Car drive is lonely and quiet. No comparison to LA traffic.  I make a […]