Longevity Magazine3 min read
Dirty beauty Dozen
If you’re one to spend thousands of rands in pursuit of healthy skin, you should take a look at the skincare products you buy. The value isn’t in the brand; it’s in the ingredients. Retinol. Vitamin C. Niacinamide. Bakuchiol. Much attention is paid t
Longevity Magazine6 min read
Navigating Menopause
Q Do you believe women are adequately equipped to manage life as they enter peri-menopause and menopause? A I’ve noticed a range of readiness levels among women approaching peri-menopause and menopause. While some grasp the importance of lifestyle fa
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Why habits Matter
Anyone who’s ever struggled to stick to a diet or to go to the gym three times a week knows how difficult it can be to build a new habit. But both science and common sense tell us that lifestyle changes can be the difference between suffering from se
Longevity Magazine11 min read
Have A Health Plan For Your Healthspan
Dan Buettner’s Live to 100 docuseries on Netflix points out: “The same things that help us live a long and healthy life are the things that make life worth living.” The consistencies in Buettner’s explanation for why inhabitants of Blue Zones continu
Longevity Magazine3 min read
WE TRIED IT: Omegawave diagnostics
Contrary to popular practise, performing and feeling your best (physically and mentally) requires more of an internal focus than an external one. We need to measure our unique physiology to address the root of our dysfunction, and modern health-asses
Longevity Magazine6 min read
Eternal Youth Of The OPTIMISTIC MIND
She owns two successful fashion businesses, has completed three Iron Man races, and has provided evergreen oxygen to the American soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful, in the role of Brooke Logan, since the show’s premiere in 1986. So, how has award
Longevity Magazine3 min read
Will AI Keep Us On Our Toes?
The advancement of technology over the past decade has led to its implementation in every area of life. In the fitness world, there are smartwatches and smart scales. But now, with over 80% of adolescents and 27% of adults reportedly not meeting the
Longevity Magazine6 min read
Welcome To The metaverse OF LONGEVITY
In the heart of bustling cities, biohacking sanctuaries are emerging as new temples of wellbeing. These state-of-the-art facilities offer personalized longevity programs, combining advanced medical diagnostics with cutting-edge technologies. People a
Longevity Magazine3 min read
The Power Of community
Coined by National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner, “Blue Zones” are geographic areas of the world that are home to some of the healthiest and oldest people. Many of their inhabitants live well into their 100s, enjoying optimum physical and mental hea
Longevity Magazine4 min read
HOW TO EXTEND THE life OF YOUR PET
For many of us, life is simply not complete without our pets, and we’ll do anything we can to give them a long and healthy life. The basics we know: • Feed them a high-quality diet;• Take them for a walk every day, for at least half an hour;• Ensure
Longevity Magazine4 min read
NEW BEAUTY innovation Environ Changes The Paradigm Of Peeling
Skin peeling has been a longstanding approach for addressing photoaging and other common skin concerns. However, it often involves discomfort and requires substantial recovery time. While stronger peels yield better outcomes, they also carry the risk
Longevity Magazine6 min read
Do You Want To live Forever?
As English mathematician and philosopher AN Whitehead remarked, “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” If we were to expand this concept to our lifespan, and how we’ve be
Longevity Magazine5 min read
Does The Longevity Gene Hold The Secret? And Does It Really Matter?
Since the launch of the Human Genome Project, there’s been a lot of discussion and analysis on the extent to which our genes and heritability influence our lives. Nature versus nurture… Just do a Google search and you’ll see what we mean. The launch
Longevity Magazine8 min read
Can You Afford To Live To 100?
If you think living to 100 is out of the question, think again. There’s no question that we’re living longer lives. The World Economic Forum has predicted that, by 2050, the number of adults over the age of 65 will bring about the largest social, eco
Longevity Magazine2 min read
From the Publishing Editor’s Desk
Welcome to our Longevity print annual, themed Living Beyond 100. If you’re reading our annual print edition for the first time, we hope we inspire you to become a follower of our work. If you’re a long-time follower, thank you. We appreciate your loy
Longevity Magazine9 min read
Destination longevity
Passport and visas, check. Flight times and seat bookings, check. Housesitter, check. Bookings for forest bathing, sleep therapy, mindful hiking, cryotherapy and infrared saunas on the trip, double-check! For many travelers today, holidays aren’t com
Longevity Magazine6 min read
The TOP 10 exercises to Keep You Stronger for Longer
The benefits of physical activity to keep you healthy have been known for eons. Hippocrates wrote about the dangers of too little activity (and too much food). Tai chi, an exercise system of graceful movements that originated in China, dates from the
Longevity Magazine1 min read
Top 10 Wellness Apps
MyFitnessPal: This app helps users to track their diet and exercise, offering a comprehensive overview of daily caloric intake, nutritional information and fitness goals. Headspace: Focusing on meditation and mindfulness, Headspace provides guided me
Longevity Magazine3 min read
WE TRIED IT: A Virtual Reality Massage With Sheer Bliss
Massage therapy has been practised for centuries. Now we know that the combination of rubbing and loosening muscles and tissues turns on the parasympathetic nervous system, which brings about relaxation and reduces stress. Sheer Bliss takes this to a
Longevity Magazine6 min read
Move More. Sleep More. Eat Less. Stress Less.
Q How do you maintain your health and wellbeing? A I have a simple personal mantra: Move more. Sleep more. Eat less. Stress less. Q Tell us what moving more means to you? A I love to exercise in the early morning, and prefer to be outdoors. I’m an av
Longevity Magazine2 min read
ILS Africa: A Confluence Of Visionaries
Organized by Afrolongevity and opened by Kgomotsego Brenda Ramokopelwa, the International Longevity Summit 2023 served as a convergence point for thought leaders, scientists, policy-makers and innovators in the fields of longevity and biotechnology i
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Join Our Longevity BIOHACKING RETREAT And Transform Your Mind, Body And Soul
We’re pleased to announce our first Longevity Biohacking Retreat, in collaboration with the Well-Being Sanctuary, where you can get the tools you need to transform and optimize your health, and discover your purpose to live healthier and longer. The
Longevity Magazine6 min read
Aging beauty
Research tells us that the number of centenarians is expected to rise as the rates of life expectancy around the world continue to increase. Now we’re starting to wonder, if we reach 100, not only how well we’ll feel, but how good we’ll look too. Man
Longevity Magazine7 min read
Food Medical Prescription
The world is in the middle of an epidemic of chronic diseases, and one of the major culprits is diet. But if poor food choices fuel the fire of inflammation, it makes sense that better ones could inhibit it–or even extinguish it altogether. Blindly a
Longevity Magazine4 min read
The Future Is anti-aging Medicine
Anti-aging medicine isn’t perhaps the best term to describe his field of interest, says Dr Craige Golding. “It tends to suggest a focus on the exterior, giving the impression that it’s all about wrinkles and Botox treatments.” But the focus is much b
Longevity Magazine5 min read
The Secrets To healthty Aging
Robert Kay interviewed world-renowned longevity scientist and author Dr Bradley Willcox in Hawaii. Wilcox is the principal investigator of the National Institute on Aging-funded Kuakini Hawaii Lifespan Study and Kuakini Hawaii Healthspan Study. He is
Longevity Magazine11 min read
Workplace wellness–and What It Really Means
Corporations spend fortunes protecting their buildings, vehicles and equipment (for obvious reasons), but they often seem to forget their greatest asset: people. It’s surprising, because, should their executives not be able to fulfil their function,
Longevity Magazine7 min read
Why you Need A wellness App
We know that taking care of our health is directly related to living a longer life–that healthy habits such as exercising, quitting smoking and eating a balanced diet are key. Millions of people around the world are using apps to guide them in this.
Longevity Magazine4 min read
Listen UP!
This list of the top 20 health and wellness podcasts in the world is based on data derived from Apple Podcasts and Spotify Jay Shetty’s purpose is to make wisdom go viral, and he lets you into fascinating conversations with some of the most insightfu
Longevity Magazine8 min read
Put Sleep Misery To Bed
Sleep is one of the most neglected pillars of health, in a time when endless work is synonymous with success, and blue light exposure is everywhere. Anyone who brags about willingly forgoing sleep in the name of output makes the job of melatonin hard
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