Featuring our SuperAging News Network partner, Barb Desmarais, host of the popular podcast series: “What’s Next: Conversations With Boomers.” Vancouver-based Barb Desmarais, a Boomer herself, offers a series of engaging conversations with Boomers on a wide range of topics, from health to finance to fitness to relationships and more. We first met Barb when we […]
Recently, I found myself pouring my heart out, not to a human, but to a chatbot named Wysa on my phone. It nodded – virtually – asked me how I was feeling and gently suggested trying breathing exercises. As a neuroscientist, I couldn’t help but wonder: Was I actually feeling better, or was I just […]
It was an every-other-day routine, full of frustration. Every time my husband called his father, who was 94 when he died in 2022, he’d wait for his dad to find his hearing aids and put them in before they started talking. Even then, my father-in-law could barely hear what my husband was saying. “What?” he’d […]
As we reported here, it’s often all too easy to dismiss persistent fatigue, brain fog, headaches, or feeling chilled as inevitable companions of aging. Yet for many of us, these symptoms may point to something more treatable: anemia. Often under-recognized, anemia can significantly impact quality of life, physical strength, and even cognitive function. What is […]
Our bodies contain thousands of proteins that are the stuff of life and help create, maintain, and rejuvenate every inch of us, from our hair, skin and nails, to our muscles, and even our bones. This is why it’s important to be mindful of our protein quantity and quality! Many of us jump to meat […]
There is certainly growing awareness of the damaging effects of overexposure to the sun, including skin cancers. Still, I see in both my medical practice as a skin cancer specialist and in the course of my research as an associate professor of oncology that there are still many harmful habits and ideas about tanning that […]
A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels creeping up after menopause, she said, “I didn’t want to take a chance.” A cardiologist told Hollander that based on factors like age, sex, cholesterol, and blood […]
On July 24, 2025, the American pro wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, died at the age of 71. Hogan had chronic lymphocytic leukemia and a history of atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a condition in which the upper chambers of the heart, or atria, beat irregularly and often rapidly. His cause […]
It’s not exactly news that junk food isn’t healthy. What may be surprising is exactly how pervasive ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have become and what harm they’re doing. This includes some foods that are specifically labelled and marketed as having nutritional value. We are nutrition researchers, and the authors of a new study that identifies some […]
For many of us, a fall may seem like an unfortunate, all-too-often embarrassing, mishap. Yet in truth, falls represent a serious public health issue — often with life-altering consequences. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one in four Americans aged 65 and older experience a fall each year. In […]
