Kristy’s update from Muskoka with a pit stop in NY along the way. Loving the longevity diet, taking full advantage of my summer vacation days to practice rest, be active, visit family and a tiny bit of time for hobbies. This week both JoeRogan/TedNugent podcast and Will Smith post were great reminders in self respect and discipline. Finally a work training reminded me that for good or bad I value hard work over pretty much everything.

In this podcast Kristy and I talk about The Longevity Diet - a new book by the very interesting and well researched Dr. Valter Longo. His work on aging, lifestyle and food is so in-depth and well researched. It's a great read and very actionable. In this podcast we talk about what the longevity diet consists of, what your eat and why, the basic  exercise recommendations, centenarians, and the amazing benefits of the fasting mimicking diet. Let's learn more and be healthy now!

Kristy’s weekly update: now back in California from a short work trip to London when she didn’t always follow her travel rules, but getting back on track with a good nights sleep at home. A little more on rest and taking thoughtful breaks and some tips for dealing with jet lag.

From the beautiful coast of Calabria, Italy. Kristy is enjoying her mini break from work in Italy. So she gives us her updates on eating, exercise, and then figuring out the difference between sleep and rest. She's reading the book Rest, by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. She really talks about her personal experience taking breaks even during the day at work can make a big impact. Join Kristy in Italy for this quick podcast.

Kristy weekly update - dialing up the fun factor; loving my 36 hour LA vacation this week; finding ways to add more fun to my days; getting ready for 6 weeks of travel; striving for awesome over perfect and loving it!!!!! Next update coming to you from the coast of Italy - hooray for summer fun!

Kristy checks in with us and let's us know her focus on Pilates (she's on day 18 of 30 days of pilates), embracing summertime Funtime, actually meditating - instead of pretending to meditate, the ah ha moment of realizing you attempt perfection with everything and how to get to good or amazing vs perfect -which is not all that it’s cracked up to be. Let's be healthy now!

In this podcast Kristy and I (Amanda - the holistic nutritionist) are on our way to visit our dad and we talk about all the health stuff and issues we've had in the last month or so and what we are doing now and how it's going. This includes, fitness, food, panic attacks and getting more sleep.

Kristy gives us her new update for May! She talks about how life is made up by small decisions everyday, which is both awesome and daunting at the same time. She also had a change on a project at work - very similar to changing jobs and she gets into how it turned out to be a good  was a reminder at how quickly people move on, so index your time or expectation of your time spent, because you can’t get it back.

In this episode Kristy gives us an update on the last 3 weeks - 2 crazy weekends, nuts at work and finally a rest weekend. She is still learning to index time for herself vs generosity to others, and she needs to take vacation asap. It's harder than she thought to teach an old dog new tricks :)

In this solo podcast Amanda delves into a deep dive on Autophagy and what it is and how you can activate this amazing cell renewal and fasting benefit in everyday life. Intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets are not the only way to get the benefits of autophagy of 'self eating' cells. So let's dig in and find out how you can benefit from autophagy starting today! Let's be healthy now.