THE SH1971 BLOG

10 strategies that actually work — willpower not required

Let’s just get this out of the way right now: if you’ve tried to cut back on sugar and failed, it’s not because you are weak. It’s not because you lack discipline. It...

If you've ever felt like your body was taken over by a rouge alien in your 40s — like the front door locks were changed overnight and nobody gave you the new set of keys? — you're not imagining it. The workouts that used to w...

Something shifts in midlife. For me, it was a rather sort of a snap. You start to notice it — a growing awareness of you putting your energy out everywhere, and getting little in return except exhaustion, frustration and rese...

Ask most women over 40 how much protein they eat, and the answer is usually somewhere between "not enough" and "I have no idea." I'm Gen X, and probably like you, I grew up in the era of low-fat everything, calorie counting, ...

There's a part of your body that powers everything — getting up from a chair, climbing stairs, walking with ease at 70, 80, 90. And most of us are completely ignoring it. (This was definitely me). We tend to gravitate toward ...

There's no coincidence that you suddenly feel motivated to clean house in March.

As winter recedes and the days stretch longer, your nervous system starts to shift. Cortisol patterns adjust with earlier sunrise; you're sudde...