After trying one diet after another and not making any progress, it can be easy to feel like you’re a failure. Even worse, it’s not uncommon to get the feeling of being broken. After all, your friend lost 20lbs doing keto or your cousin got a 6-pack doing P90x or your neighbor built buns of

For all of my life, I’ve been known as the person with “Superman” vision. When I was growing up in Louisiana, my best friend would test me to see how far I could see and always be amazed when I read a sign that was seemingly unreadable to him (of course, sometimes I just made

Tony Robbins once said, ““One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.” Part of the reason we struggle to maintain focus over a long period of time

A couple thousand years ago, the Roman orrator and Stoic Philosopher, Cicero, spoke a phrase that has been handed down to us over the years. The phrase has changed its structure from time to time, but the meaning is the same. In Latin, Cicero is quoted as saying “Ut imago est animi voltus sic indices oculi”

If you’ve been following along over the previous few weeks, you’ve had quite a ride through understanding aging as a disease. We started our conversation 2 weeks ago by talking about the importance of cellular function and, more specifically, how mitochondrial dysfunction and cellular senescence play a huge part in how we age. Last week we dove

As kids, we are highly influenced by our peers. We want to hang out with the “cool crowd” so we do as the cool kids do. As adults, we believe we’re impervious to peer pressure. We’re “grown-ups” after all, and grown-ups don’t let others sway their actions. Yet we’re more influenced by our contemporaries in