Wellbeing Archives - Advanced Adults https://www.advancedadults.com/category/wellbeing/ Aging is not the end of the world Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:18:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://www.advancedadults.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-logo--32x32.webp Wellbeing Archives - Advanced Adults https://www.advancedadults.com/category/wellbeing/ 32 32 Protecting Your Hearing: A Guide for Over 60s https://www.advancedadults.com/protecting-your-hearing-after-60/ https://www.advancedadults.com/protecting-your-hearing-after-60/#respond Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:18:31 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=584 Struggling to catch words in a noisy cafe is more than a small annoyance. It turns out our ears and our brains are far more closely linked than most of us ever realise. Protecting your hearing is one of those quiet health habits that pays back in ways you might not expect, from staying connected […]

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]]> https://www.advancedadults.com/protecting-your-hearing-after-60/feed/ 0 Vitamin B12 After 60: The Quiet Deficiency https://www.advancedadults.com/vitamin-b12-after-60/ https://www.advancedadults.com/vitamin-b12-after-60/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:14:43 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=580 You can eat plenty of B12 and still run short of it. That sounds contradictory, yet it is exactly what happens to a great many of us as we age. The problem is rarely the food on the plate. The problem is that our bodies grow steadily worse at pulling the vitamin out of that […]

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]]> https://www.advancedadults.com/vitamin-b12-after-60/feed/ 0 Resistant Starch: A Simple Diet Add-On After 60 https://www.advancedadults.com/resistant-starch/ https://www.advancedadults.com/resistant-starch/#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:51:32 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=575 Here is something odd about your dinner. Some of the starch on your plate never gets digested at all. It travels straight through your small intestine untouched, arrives in your colon, and feeds the good bacteria living there. That clever stuff is called resistant starch, and most of us eat far too little of it. […]

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]]> https://www.advancedadults.com/resistant-starch/feed/ 0 7 Summer Foot Care Tips to Keep You Moving Well https://www.advancedadults.com/summer-foot-care/ https://www.advancedadults.com/summer-foot-care/#respond Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:33:45 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=504 Your feet carry you the equivalent of five times around the planet in an average lifetime. That number stopped me in my tracks. We ask so much of them, yet they tend to get noticed only when something starts to ache. Good summer foot care is one of those quiet habits that pays you back […]

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]]> https://www.advancedadults.com/summer-foot-care/feed/ 0 6 Simple Ways to Keep Your Eyes Healthy in Summer https://www.advancedadults.com/summer-eye-care/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:29:32 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=501 Your eyes take more sun damage in summer than in any other season. That caught me off guard when I first read it. We slather on the sun cream without a second thought, yet the eyes often get forgotten entirely. Good summer eye care turns out to be one of the easiest wins in the […]

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]]> Sleeping in a Heatwave After 60: What Actually Helps https://www.advancedadults.com/sleeping-in-a-heatwave-after-60/ Tue, 26 May 2026 06:31:53 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=492 Sleeping in a Heatwave After 60 – What Actually Helps Three in the morning. The sheet is damp. The fan is pointed straight at me. The window is open but the air coming through feels like a hairdryer. Sound familiar? Sleeping in a heatwave after 60 is a different beast to what it was in […]

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]]> Breathing Exercises After 60: The Free Health Hack https://www.advancedadults.com/breathing-exercises-after-60/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:07:42 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=405 I have to admit something. When I first read that deliberately changing the way you breathe could lower your blood pressure, improve your sleep, reduce anxiety and boost your energy levels, I was sceptical. It sounded like the kind of vague wellness advice that fills the gap between actual science and something useful. But breathing […]

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]]> Cold Water Therapy After 60: Is It Worth It? https://www.advancedadults.com/cold-water-therapy-after-60/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:05:47 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=401 I’ll be completely straight with you – when I first came across cold water therapy, I thought it was one of those trends invented by people who enjoy suffering. Stand under a freezing shower on a grey British morning? Jump into a lake in November? At 60? With my joints? 😂 But here’s the thing. […]

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]]> Sleep After 60: Your Most Powerful Health Tool https://www.advancedadults.com/sleep-after-60/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:47:46 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=395 Let me be brutally honest with you. Sleep after 60 is not the same game it was in your 40s – and for most of my 50s, I was playing it completely wrong. Five or six hours? Fine. Staying up until midnight scrolling? No big deal. I’ll catch up at the weekend. 😅 It turns […]

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]]> Neurowellness After 60: Train Your Brain to Thrive https://www.advancedadults.com/neurowellness-after-60/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:41:35 +0000 https://www.advancedadults.com/?p=391 If you’ve been hanging out with me here at advancedadults.com for a while, you know I’m obsessed with one thing: living our best, most vibrant lives. We’ve talked a lot about physical fitness, but today I want to dive into the “hardware” upstairs. We’re moving past the old-school “anti-aging” talk. Honestly, who wants to just […]

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