Dan buettner’s morning routine
Yesterday I posted about my morning routine. In the middle of my routine, the inspiringly languid and health-ful Dan Buettner emailed me, so I asked him to share his. Three things you should know about...
View Articlemonday awakening: the best reason I’ve ever found for backing the f*ck off....
Sometimes you hear something that makes a penny drop. You see, yesterday I was listening to an podcast about longevity and the point was made that a lot of us will live to well over 100. 120,...
View ArticleSunday life: in which I test how old i am…
This week I test my cellular age I’ve reached that curious age where you no longer look your age. Which is to say you look as old as whatever you got up to the night before. When I sleep badly, I look...
View ArticleWhen I’m shitty I climb a tree
This week in Sunday Life: I try the “wilderness effect” On Thursday I woke up antsy. Sometimes we just do, don’t we. It’s the wind, the moon….the half bottle of wine we drank the night before....
View ArticleHow to eat paleo (ish) while travelling
Southern Europe so far: je marche, Je mange. That’s pretty much been the picture for the past five weeks. I don’t really do museums or galleries. I travel to eat. I hike to eat. I eat to hike. At...
View ArticleWhy am I in Ikaria? And a chat with Dan Buettner…
It’s a fun story behind how I wound up here in Ikaria, a small island all the way over to the east of Cyclades which has been formally freed from the Turks for exactly 100 years this week (I have the...
View Articlehow to make Ikarian soufiko
As I mentioned a few days back, I came to Ikaria to look at food. Specifically the food the locals here have eaten for eons which might give an insight into why they live so damn long and well. Athina...
View ArticleHow to live to 100: eat no sugar
I’ve been sharing a few posts on why the people in Ikaria, Greece, live so long. Why it’s a “Blue Zone”. You can catch up here and here on the gist (and there’s more to come). The really big question...
View Articlehow to live to 100: drink wine and walk
I’ve written about my visit to Ikaria a few times, through a little series that’s evolved on my blog titled “How to live to 100”. Paniyiris and wine, eating no sugar and eating pork are some of the...
View ArticleI’ve been a hypocrite and I need to move on
I’ve been ready for a slap. It’s been building up. I’ve been too seductive. I needed to be knocked back to earth. Photo by Vargas Photography Last week, in the midst of the slap-down-I-needed-to-have,...
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