Cell senescence. Oxidation. Inflammation.

These three terms represent what often happens to our cells as we grow older.

Cell senescence refers to cells that lose their fuel and slip back into idle. They aren’t dead cells but they’re basically useless cells that can become cancerous.

Oxidation is a process in the cells that impacts the cell’s electrical charge in a detrimental  way and inflammation in healthy cells can lead to chronic diseases and ailments if left untreated.

The effect on our bodies is called aging.

Since we can’t see what’s going on in our cells, a surefire way to avoid any of these three issues is through the use of targeted supplements.

Our guest today is Dr. Barbara Barrett, a doctor of natural medicine who is an expert on supplement use. Her recommendations for supplement use will be an eye opener for those who listen to this episode of The Art 2 Aging.

There is so much happening at the forefront of health and wellness right now that it’s difficult to know where to begin.

What science has discovered about the human body is that it is not chemically based but electrically based. This means your body is electrical and responds to electrical energy. In fact, the body can be healed electrically.

So, this week on The Art 2 Aging, we’re going to do just that: start to uncover a few universal secrets within the human body.

Our guest is Dr. Steve Small. Doc Steve, as he refers to himself, is someone you’re going to  want to listen to.

Steve is a doctor of functional medicine who practices what he calls Quantum Integrative Medicine. He practices in L.A. and his patient list is quite literally a Who’s Who of Hollywood.

What he has to tell you about frequency, vibration, and energy and how your body responds is going to blow you away. More than that, Doc Steve explains why the human body is electrical and how it can always be kept in a healthy state through the use of tiny electrical currents flowing from a hand-held device that is revolutionizing wellness.

Steve’s message is NOT just theory. Rather it is information you can really make use of. And it is in all likelihood the future of medicine.

How do we measure victory?

Armed forces do it by defeating the enemy on the battlefield and in the air.

Sports teams do it by outscoring their opponents.

Athletes do it by setting world record times.

Politicians do it by winning elections.

You get the picture. But what about personal victories?

Okay, so what do we mean by personal victories? Well, why not ask Gary Buzzard?

For years, Gary wanted one thing more than any other: to call himself a writer.

Unfortunately, Gary listened to his ego voice and allowed it to defeat him, pin him down and make him swallow his dream.

But he wouldn’t let go of his goal. And the universe listened, creating a series of episodes and situations in his life that finally got him to the point where Gary shouted, “Enough!”

In his late 70s, Gary reached his goal and he now calls himself a writer. So does everyone else, for that matter. And, they add, a damn good one, too.

Here’s the story of how a man achieved his dream – despite his age.

There may be one question that all of us, old and young, grapple with. We may not articulate it clearly but it goes something like this: does Life have a meaning?

The inherent folly in that question is based on an assumption that Life has the same meaning for all of us. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. How could your life mean the same to you as my life means to me?

Now here’s another question: what holds us back from finding meaning in our lives?

This week on The Art 2 Aging, we tackle both those questions in an interview with Peter Merry, Managing Director and Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University in the Netherlands.

Peter discusses how we can discover that individual life meaning that gives each of us purpose, especially as we age into the senior years. And believe it or not, he does so by referencing quantum science.

Everyone talks about the “stages of life”: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and then, the Big One – old age.

The problem with thinking in stages is that it has the effect of segregating life into different compartments. That’s exactly how marketers and advertisers think. They segregate the population into market segments.

Makes sense for them but here’s the problem: when marketers who are in their own stage of life as adults think about those who are in that stage called “old age”, they fall down in their messaging attempts.

Because someone who’s 38 or 45 can’t think – or feel ­– like someone who is 65 or 75. So, they fall back on stereotypes and inevitably get it wrong every time.

That’s where Dave McCaughan comes in. Dave has been in the marketing and advertising business for decades and he has made the aging cohort a study for the past 30 years.

In this week’s episode of The Art 2 Aging, Dave describes how marketers have gone wrong and continue to go wrong with their marketing efforts to the older population.

Tiny electrical currents, known as microcurrents, which can generate rapid healing within the body, allowed an NFL Hall of Famer to play in the Super Bowl only six weeks after breaking his leg and tearing his Achilles tendon. Terrell Owens was that player.

Microcurrent healing was in wide use in the late 19th century. And while it worked,  it was never carefully studied or documented.

With the birth of the pharmaceutical age in the 1920s, what we now call frequency medicine faded from sight.

But in the mid 1990s, those tiny electrical currents shot back into prominence through the work of a chiropractic doctor named Carolyn McMakin. And she was responsible for Terrell Owens being able to play an impossible and spectacular game in the 2005 Super Bowl.

Today, Dr. McMakin is the undisputed global expert in Frequency Specific Microcurrent technology or FSM for short. Her treatment protocols are now standard with many NFL teams, as well as NHL and NBA teams. Why? Because it WORKS.

She is our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging.

Here’s a shocking fact: 98% of  dementia sufferers are being cared for at home. That’s shocking because it means that the caregiver is likely a family member, often a spouse or adult child.

Dementia victims suffer greatly and so do their caregivers, especially family members.

That’s why what Allyson Schrier is doing is so amazing. Allyson’s husband was diagnosed with a form of dementia when he was only 47. He never worked after that and Allyson became his caregiver.

She knew nothing about dementia, how it manifests, how it impacts the sufferer or how it was going to impact her and her kids.

But Allyson was not someone to throw up her hands and quit. She took the bunch of lemons that life had handed her and turned them into lemonade.

How she did that is the subject of our episode this week on The Art 2 Aging.

This week features a captivating story of a man named Tom Meschery.

If you’re a fan of the NBA, then you’ll likely remember Tom.

The Mad Russian. Number 14 for the Philadelphia and Golden State Warriors and the Seattle Supersonics. Teammate of Wilt Chamberlain.

When it comes to life stories, Tom has an amazing one. It starts with overcoming adversity as a child, rising to become a star in the NBA, staggering under the weight of a terminal illness at 65, finally meeting the love of his life and now writing mystery novels that sell well at the age of 85.

It could be a story  sprung from the mind of a Hollywood screenwriter. But it isn’t. Because it’s true.

Tom was born Tomislav Mescheryiakov. His parents were Russian; his father an officer in the White Russian Army.

At the outset of the Russian Revolution, the family fled to Manchuria. But when the Japanese invaded China, Tom, his mother and sister spent the war in a Japanese internment camp before being allowed to emigrate to the United States.

Click the podcast link above to listen to this fascinating story.

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Dr. Warrick Bishop

If you know  anyone who has seen a cardiologist, it was probably because their general practitioner was alerted to a potential problem and referred them to a heart specialist.

That’s often the pattern, particularly among older adults. In fact, those over the age of 65 are more prone to heart problems as the heart muscle begins to wear out.

Trouble arises when we take the heart for granted long enough that symptoms occur in the first place.

But what if there was a way to minimize potential heart problems or avoid them altogether, regardless of age?

Dr. Warrick Bishop believes that can be the case. Warrick is an Australian cardiologist who  has written a number of best-selling books on heart health. More than that, though,  Warrick is a doc with a difference.

He’s a preventative cardiologist. His primary aim and his sole approach is to prevent heart attacks from happening in the first place. And his website is where you can find his books, courses and membership to the Healthy Heart Network. Knowledge is power!

To listen to our interview with Dr. Bishop, click the link at the top of the page, subscribe for free, and enjoy the episode.

There comes a point in the lives of many adult children when they are faced with the challenge of changing roles with their parents.

The child becomes the parent and the parent becomes the child who needs their grown offspring to help them as they get older.

Laura Tamblyn-Watts, the CEO of CanAge, an advocacy organization for seniors in Canada, has written an important book to help adult children deal with challenges they’ve never faced before.  We talked with her recently