Hello my friends and welcome back to the Becoming Ageless podcast where we have conversations about WHOLE HEALTH for naturally increasing healthspan and decreasing biological age. I’m your host, Robynn Lin Fredericks , and I believe in both “BEING” and Living AGELESS!

I always like to remind my listeners that creating a long healthspan is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle and it takes many odd-shaped pieces to complete a beautiful master-piece. While we can’t control everything in our environment, becoming ageless is both a lifestyle and mindset which requires us to become AWARE of things that we are actually able to control. Essentially, we are building an actionable plan to put the odds in our favor to achieve our health goals, as we grow older.

The puzzle piece we are talking about today is movement and nutrition, particularly after age 40.

My guest today is Catherine Piot, coming to us all the way from Berlin, Germany. She has a master’s degree in nutrition and physical education with almost 30 years of experience. In addition, she also has numerous certifications in the field of athletic performance and sports nutrition. Catherine is the author of the book ‘’Transform your body after 40. A Women’s Guide to Weight Loss and Fitness.’’ (which is available on Amazon) and the creator of the 3-month program FIT & LEAN, which helps women over 40 lose fat without restrictive diets and hours of cardio.

She works with clients from around the globe, teaching lifestyle changes and simplifying nutrition by eating healthy food in the right amount RATHER than getting stuck in a traditional “diet”.

Contact Catherine:

Website: https://catherinepiotinstitute.com

IG: https://instagram.com/catherinepiot.tv

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Youtube: https://youtube.com/catherinepiot

Welcome back to the Becoming Ageless podcast where we have conversations about WHOLE HEALTH for naturally increasing healthspan and decreasing biological age. I’m your host, Robynn Lin Fredericks and I believe in living and BEING Ageless!

When talking Healthspan, we are talking about individuals being able to age in good health without chronic diseases or disability.

And If you follow this podcast, you know that I strongly believe that achieving a long healthspan is like putting together a complicated jigsaw puzzle! There are many pieces, with various shapes and colors. Some of the those pieces are obvious to the final picture, while others are not so obvious, but nonetheless, still important to the overall image. It’s my goal that we uncover them all to help YOU put together the beautiful masterpiece of a long healthy, vibrant, and passionate life!

Today, we are talking about SLEEP. The National Institute of Medicine cites, that “Healthy sleep quality was associated with a reduced risk of premature end of healthspan, suggesting healthy sleep behavior may extend healthspan.”

Sleep deprivation is a chronic issue in our world, perhaps more now than ever before, and obviously, from the statistics I just mentioned, it affects our health and wellbeing. So my hope today is that we can delve into this subject and talk about things that we can do.

My guest today is Dr. Nirusa Kumaran. She is the Founder and Medical Director of the Elemental Health Clinic in London, she is a practicing NHS and Private GP, Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician and Functional Medicine Specialist. She’s passionate about holistic, integrative and patient centered care with specialties in Gut health, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Bio-energetics.

Dr. Kumaran faced both her own challenges of burnout and digestive issues as well as her own daughter, at just 5 weeks old, suffering from severe eczema and multiple food allergies, which took her down the road of searching for root causes, which ultimately led her to Functional Medicine.

We know today that people who are exposed to chronic stress age rapidly. The telomeres in their cells shorten faster and Inflammation, which is a feature of stress, accounts for the phenomenon of “infla-maging”. And in addition to aging itself, infla-maging can contribute to the development of several pathologies, including atherosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, and others. According to an article from Biomedicines, as published in the NIH, “Psychological stress is considered to be an important risk factor for numerous diseases. The common feature of these pathologies is cellular senescence, which causes functional alterations and is associated with cancer AND cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, and autoimmune disorders. All of the conditions are usually associated with whole-body aging, but, in the case of lasting severe stress, they can occur early in life, causing an older biological age. Numerous studies have shown a link between chronic psychological stress and mental disorders, such as major depressive disorder, & PTSD, as well as accelerated aging. Chronic psychological stress is also believed to stimulate pro-inflammatory cytokines release, thus triggering the inflammation. On the plus side, another recent study published in Translational Psychiatry found that even though chronic stress may contribute to accelerated (or faster) aging, as noted by bio-age testing, ...the good news is emotional regulation and self-control have been found to help. (1) This research reaffirms that stress is not just a feeling, and it WILL manifest physically. When we grow accustomed to constant levels of stress, we often don’t understand how out of control it has gotten. Stress will shape your life, and the responsibility is on you, and me, to remove the stress or be faced with accommodating it.   

So we are going to dig into this today with my guest and good friend, Tanya Walker, who has an established practice as a holistic coach, somatic practitioner, as well as a breathwork and movement facilitator and teaches her clients how to make powerful shifts in their mental, emotional and physical health. She has operated multiple retreats and workshops, speaks at corporate events and will be presenting at the upcoming national ALS conference in Salt Lake City where she will talk about the power of the emotional body to heal illness.  

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(1)Harvanek Z, Fogelman N, Xu K, Sinha R. Psychological and biological resilience modulates the eects of stress on epigenetic aging. Transl Psychiatry. 2021;11(1). doi:10.1038/s41398-021-01735-7 

(2)The Link between Chronic Stress and Accelerated Aging Yegor E. Yegorov, Anastasia V. Poznyak, Nikita G. Nikiforov, Igor A. Sobenin, Alexander N. Orekhov Biomedicines. 2020 Jul; 8(7): 198. Published online 2020 Jul 7. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8070198 PMCID: PMC7400286

Hello my friends and welcome back to the Becoming Ageless podcast where we have conversations about WHOLE HEALTH for naturally increasing healthspan and decreasing biological age. I’m your host, Robynn Lin Fredericks , and I believe in both “BEING” and Living AGELESS!

So today we are diving into ingredients that are commonly found in our personal care products, and with my guest, Heather Miller, we’ll look at the good, the bad and the ugly of things we commonly use everyday and how it can affect our long-term health!

Heather is an 11 year survivor of an environmentally caused breast cancer. She has carefully navigated her journey through cancer and now helps others learn how to support, nourish, and heal through creating a natural, toxin free environment. She is a natural skincare industry leader, a natural living educator, speaker and breast cancer mentor.

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Dr. Josef Paul Arnould, D.C., is a chiropractor, strength training advisor and the author of numerous books on exercise and nutrition.

Even in his early childhood, he enjoyed the quest for physical fitness. Whether it was catching snakes, climbing trees, throwing rocks and snowballs, or hitting baseballs, he loved the thrill of physical exertion. As a voracious teenage reader, he was also stimulated by the relationship of good nutrition to successful athletic performance.

After graduating from Princeton University and Framingham State University, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and Language Arts respectively, he entered Palmer College of Chiropractic with a career ambition of helping others achieve good health. In the curriculum at Palmer, he studied human anatomy, physiology, and nutrition in great depth.

Upon receiving his doctorate in 1983, Dr. Arnould opened a clinic in Western Massachusetts. From his first days of practice, he was determined to fuse three natural disciplines of health: whole-body exercise; nutritious eating; and comprehensive chiropractic healthcare. To symbolize his commitment to this concept, he named his practice Strength for Life® Health and Fitness Center. Now in its 39th year, this clinic thrives as a community where people of all ages come to learn about exercising and eating intelligently and about receiving chiropractic care when necessary.

To share the knowledge and experience he had gained from many years of reading and teaching, as well as his lifelong love of exercise, Dr. Arnould composed a comprehensive textbook, Stronger After 40: Strength Training as Healthcare for Women and Men in the 21st Century. Published in 2005, this work contains hundreds of photos and detailed explanations demonstrating how we can perform strength training and flexibility exercises safely and well, even if we are 80 or 90 years of age.

Multiple books have followed thereafter including Neck Strength for Life (2018), Abdominal Strength for Life® (2018) and Abdominal Strength for Life® 2: Advanced Exercises (2020), as well as American Diet Revolution! (2020).

American Diet Revolution! is more than a manual of dietary advice, in this work we learn why and how, if we value our own health and the health of everyone we know and love, we must become activists about the foods we purchase and eat. Having helped thousands of patients lose weight, he combines his personal experience with exhaustive research in order to detail what a healthy diet and exercise routine should look like to attain and maintain optimal health.

Despite recently celebrating his 74th birthday, you will still find Dr. Arnould at his fitness center in Easthampton, MA, 6 days per week.There he draws on his nearly 40 years of experience to help his patients realign physical imbalances, teaches them how to exercise effectively in recovering from injuries and in striving for excellent health, how to discover the joys of movement and healthy food, and how most importantly, to continue trying to grow healthier and stronger as they age.

In his spare time, he teaches discus and javelin to the Easthampton High School track team. In addition, he is an active Senior Games competitor, specializing in javelin and discus where he has won numerous medals, including gold in discus at both the Massachusetts Senior Games as well as the Vermont Senior Games in 2021 and gold in javelin at the Massachusetts Senior Games in 2019. He is attending the National Senior Games for the first time in May, 2022.

Contact Dr. Arnould:

http://www.StrengthForLife.com

[email protected]

IG: @DrArnould

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How exactly does your mitochondria affect your health and aging? We find out in this episode of Becoming Ageless with my guest Kiran Krishnan, microbiologist!

Kiran's bio:

Kiran is a Research Microbiologist and has been involved in the dietary, supplement and nutrition market for the past 18 years. He comes from a University research background having spent several years with hands-on R&D in the fields of molecular medicine and microbiology at the University of Iowa. Kiran established a Clinical Research Organization where he designed and conducted dozens of human clinical trials in human nutrition. He is also a co-founder and partner in Nu Science Trading, LLC.; which is a nutritional technology development and research company. Kiran is also a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Microbiome Labs. He is a frequent lecturer on the Human Microbiome at Medical and Nutrition Conferences. He is an expert guest on National and Satellite radio, has appeared in several international documentaries and has been a guest speaker on many International Health Summits as a microbiome expert. He is currently involved in 16 novel human clinical trials on probiotics and the human microbiome. Kiran is also on the Scientific Advisory Board for 7 other companies in the industry.

Kiran Krishnan on IG: @KiranBiome

on FB @KiranKrishnan

MicrobiomeLabs.com

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My guest today is the incomparable Ann Gentry! She is a visionary leader and pioneer in the plant-based food movement, creating and operating Real Food Daily, which is LA’s premier organic vegan restaurant for 25 years, with 4 additional locations. She’s the author of Vegan Family Meals, Real Food for Everyone, and The Real Food Daily Cookbook. She has been published in numerous national and international publications, as well as serving as the executive chef of Vegetarian Times magazine and penned a food column in the UK’s parenting magazine called Junior. And, we’re not done, Ann hosted 52 episodes of her own cooking show, called Naturally Delicious with Ann Gentry airing on the Dish Network. She’s been featured on The Today Show, The Talk, Discovery Channel, the Food Network as well as local news and entertainment shows. This list could go on, but I want to start digging into our conversation because this woman is an absolute inspiration! ...Enjoy the show!

Find Ann and her cookbooks at www.AnnGentry.com or on IG @AgeLikeAGodess

"Choose your story, Change your life" is a theme of today's guest, Judy Arazoza. Everyday, we get a choice in what we feed our mind, our body, our heart.  

Judy Arazoza is a dynamo and inspiration to midlifers in all she does! She describes herself as the “average” lady next door, who EXCELS at being herself! She began her career in health as a Respiratory Therapist and Respiratory Care Adjunct Instructor in NY and now, with multiple certifications under her belt, she focuses on preventative health through modalities such as mindfulness, resistance training and sustainable nutrition. She’s the owner of Grateful Fitness and the host of the Air Hug Community podcast where she offers countless tips for the midlife journey.  

In this episode, Judy speaks about fitness in mid-life, "We're not the same person we were back in our 20s, so we shouldn't train in the same way." Our focus should be on proper nutrition, resistance training is next, followed by cardio, with a dash of strength training on top.  Judy's fave affirmation: "I am strong, I am disciplined, I am healthy" and "I love myself!"  

Action Steps: 

**Judy's Pesto Recipe: 

2 cups of tightly packed leaves such as basil, spinach, wild ramps, and or parsley any combo will do (remove thick stems) 

1/4 cup nuts (walnuts are my favorite) 

4 cloves garlic peeled and chopped 

1/4 cup  olive oil best quality first cold pressed 

1/ 2 cup grated pecorino Romano cheese 

Add Water if too thick 

Combine everything and blend in food processor or blender. Feel free to use a mortar and pestle, l am not patient enough so I use a blender. Taste and add salt and pepper as desired. Use within a day or two and Freeze extra in ice cube trays.  

If you want to find out more about Judy, visit her website at https://gratefulfitnessNY.com. Her podcast, which I definitely recommend, is called Air Hug Community, available on all podcast platforms. You can also catch up with her on Instagram and Pinterest @JudyArazoza. And if you want to catch up with me, you can find me all over social media @RobynnLin, which is also my website, https://RobynnLin.com.  

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Thank you, all, for being with us today! I hope you’ll join me next time, here on Becoming Ageless, as we uncover new tips, tricks and actions to increase your WHOLE HEALTH healthspan!

My guest today is Dr. Catherine Clinton, she is a licensed naturopathic physician with a focus on gut health, autoimmunity and psychoneuroimmunology.  She is a respected author, speaker, & a pediatric health advocate, and has an established practice in Eugene, Oregon.

Episode Highlights:

Action points: 

2-Minute Guided Meditation

Dr. Clinton's upcoming book: Inner Connected, A New Theory of Health and Disease. With a Spring Release, be watching Dr. Catherine's social media or Becoming Ageless's Insta for updates!

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Hello and welcome to the Becoming Ageless podcast where we talk about all things related to increasing healthspan and flourishing in mid-life & beyond ! I can't express how excited I am to get this party started and grow a thriving community! And, on this very first show, I want to take an opportunity to tell you more about me, my story and to share my mission for this show, WHICH is to help YOU uncover strategies of staying healthy, vibrant, full of energy, to increase healthspan and make this second stage of life, the VERY BEST STAGE OF LIFE!

I am Robynn Lin Fredericks, your host and creator/producer of the Becoming Ageless podcast and I am a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and Integrative and Functional Nutrition Practitioner, based in Northern California and I believe in being ageless and living AGELESSLY!

Being AGELESS is not “just” about a wrinkle, although the skin is an important organ of the body and the immune system and needs to be taking care of it, it’s also not about being 20 again... Been there, done that...I have no intention of going back! It IS about living life to its fullest and to its healthiest without a number dictating what our life or our health should look like. 

According to the World Health Organization, the average life expectancy in the US is 79 years old and the average “healthy life expectancy” is 63 years old. So according to these numbers, the average American will live up to 20% of their lives in an unhealthy and diseased state. As you'll learn, on this podcast, HEALTHSPAN is the foundation of our conversations! I talk with the very people who study various pieces of health, longevity, mindset, fitness and even skin, as well as a few inspirational people that are living it out, sharing their secrets! We’ll be breaking down the complicated science and uncovering the strategies for healthier living! And in every episode, we’re going to give you at least 3 actions that you can take immediately to make positive changes in your and your family’s health!

So sit back and tune in! Be ready to write down some inspirational nuggets you may hear and let's all grow ageless, together!

First episode drops March 15th, listen wherever you find your podcasts or on YouTube, if you prefer video, http://www.youtube.com/user/RobynnLinOfficial

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