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RAF337: A Windy Place

This is the second episode I’ve made in recent times. I made one last week. On the trail, I mean — I’ve been doing studio episodes for a while. But, fully back from the hiatus, we are doing our standard thing. I almost left home without my wallet and my water. I probably could have…

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RAF336: Just Do It!

I’m trying to remember some of the exercises I was doing when I was in physical therapy to use as I warm up to protect that Achilles tendon after that rupture last year. I’ve been having trouble with it recently. It’s nothing major but some discomfort in that area, so I’m being extra careful today….

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RAF335: Watching My Blood Pressure

I’ve had a couple of doctor visits recently, and my blood pressure has been completely within limits, not too high and not too low. I think it may be that I am drinking strictly decaf coffee now. I know caffeine has been an issue in the past. But my stress level isn’t appreciably lower, I’m…

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RAF334: A Non-Boring Healthy Lunch

A good exercise plan—you know I was doing a lot of different things when episode 93 was recorded, and that’s good. I was able to keep that up for a while. Maybe it isn’t sustainable for the long term. You know even if I make fitness my number one priority, it doesn’t mean that I…

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RAF333: Nutrigenomics

We’re on #64 of our Shattering the Yoyo series, looking back at episode 92, which came out November 2nd of 2018, a year in which I dramatically improved my health. I’m trying to learn from what I did that year in hopes that I can avoid the yo-yo diet syndrome in the present day. Read…

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RAF332: Living to 100 and Beyond – Delphia Welford

Who is Delphia Welford? It sounds like she’s from Pennsylvania, for sure. Even though she died in 1992, she is just now being added to the top 10 list. She was the 2nd oldest living person, behind Jeanne Calment for a couple of years. Now, she is the tenth longest-lived person, at 117 years, 66…

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RAF331: Living to 100 2023

First things first. I have returned (last episode) from the hiatus, which was in effect starting in late September of last year. When I sat down and started working again, I could not believe it had been that long! At the time, I thought some life stuff was going to change short-term, but as usual,…

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RAF330: Know Thy Health Self

In the last episode, I talked about learning from my own experience and studies and living my life accordingly. Okay, maybe I didn’t mention the studying part. But one of the things I have done is to learn from Dan Buettner’s series of books about what he calls “blue zones”. These are places where people…

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RAF329: Choices

One of the most important things to me, as I have been doing this research and practice and work over the last few years, is that I need to become an expert at my own health. Different people have different hungers, different preferences, different tolerances. The enormous quantity of information available on health is both…

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RAF328: The Right Way

In the determination of right, the game between right and wrong, we need some rules. This is a universal tenant of being human. It’s why we have codes of morality, religion, and even laws. So, when I set out to do something the right way, I need to figure out the list of rules I…

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