L4Q Round-up
Focusing on health and wellness
Friends,
We’re in the dead of winter, many of us hibernating with the covers pulled up. Reminders and new information here focused on staying well, body and soul, as we head into Spring.
Links to each citation are shown below.
Let’s start with the vagus nerve (the what, you say?).
Substack
The Importance of the Vagus Nerve + 6 Ways to Activate It
Honestly, I was not attuned to its overall significance as a hard-working and underappreciated giant of our regulatory system, affecting body, mind, and soul. Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Put the vagus nerve to work; it’s a great, quick, and easy remedy that can become routine.
This post has evergreen wisdom for all of us. What better time to be reminded than in winter, when sharp winds, cold temps, and short days can serve to dull our hard-won habits?
Puzzles, games, creative pursuits - all perfect for the indoors this time of year. Best of all, fun
New York Times
The ongoing aging debate in fitness: which is better - muscle or strength, and apart from that, what about sports? What about the activities I’ve loved (and found the added benefit of socialbility)?
Federal guidelines suggest
Podcast
We tend to think of aging skin as a woman’s beauty issue. But men are not immune to the ravages of skin damage, as John Koten, a contributing writer to the Wall Street Journal, testifies in this podcast. Koten, 70, is an avid sailor and has had over 20 skin surgeries to address facial skin cancer. In this episode, he outlines his skincare routine and the results of his personal research and experimentation.
Koten wrote about his quest for restorative skin products in this WSJ story.
Have a good week; see you next Saturday!
Jane
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Thx Jane. Had never heard of the vagus nerve - awareness makes those breathing exercises worthwhile
Great roundup, Jane. And now I'm off to go lift weights ;-)