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By Leo Babauta

I’ve been working with a large number of people who are very often exhausted, not just from sleep problems but from their daily activities.

A lot of us are drained by being around other people, doing video meetings, going out in public … and so we start to avoid those activities to preserve our energy.

Setting boundaries and giving ourselves space to rest is absolutely an important thing to do. But too much of these kinds of self-restrictions over time can result in us not being able to interact with people, increasing our isolation and loneliness, which only drains us more.

Here’s an email from a reader the other day:

As a person struggling with burnout symptoms, I find it hard to resonate with the idea of antifragility and pushing your boundaries.

That because the first step towards moving away from burnout symptoms is acknowledg…

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/11/results-from-a-small-informal-trial-of-telomerase-and-klotho-gene-therapy-for-alzheimers-disease/

Bioviva was at one point developing telomerase gene therapies, work that has transitioned into the medical tourism industry via Integrated Health Systems rather than proceeding towards regulatory approval. The institutional communities of science and funding strongly disapproved of the self-experiment undertaken by the Bioviva founder, and the way that self-experiment was popularized in order to build the company. I think this a pity, given the long history of self-experimentation by noted figures in the scientific community. Nonetheless, we live in an era that frowns upon self-experimentation as a part of the path to progress, and applies very high sta…

Source https://tinybuddha.com/blog/love-relationships-blog/please-dont-fix-me-what-true-empathy-is-and-isnt/

“No one mentioned until I was in late middle age that—horribly!—my good, helpful ideas for other grown-ups were not helpful. That my help was in fact sometimes toxic. That people needed to defend themselves from my passionate belief that I had good ideas for other people’s lives. I did not know that help is the sunny side of control.”  ~Anne Lamott

I’m a well-meaning empath.

If you share your problems with me, I’ll quickly make them my own. I’ll listen intently, feel deeply, and want to help. I’ll give you advice and solutions you didn’t ask for, then be annoyed when you don’t do what I suggest.

I used to think this was being helpful.

When my partner told me his joints were aching, I thought he wanted me to teach him yoga poses…

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/11/fight-aging-newsletter-november-22nd-2021/

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Contents

• Arguing for Public Policy on Medical Research and Development to Focus on the Treatment of Aging
• E…

Source https://minimalistbaker.com/pecan-pie-bars-vegan-gluten-free/

Pecan pie lovers, this one’s for you! We’ve tried for some time to create the perfect vegan pecan pie, and after some pie struggles last year, we changed our vision a bit and boy are we happy with the result! Introducing: pecan pie bars with crunchy, buttery pecans and a shortbread-like crust.

With all the classic flavor of pecan pie, they’re undetectably gluten-free and vegan, and perfect for your holiday table.

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Source https://seniorplanet.org/ask-joan-sexually-incompatible/

Are they sexually compatible anymore? Joan counsels a reader concerned about a drastic difference in sexual desire.

The post Ask Joan: Sexually Incompatible? appeared first on Senior Planet.

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Most consumers fall for spam during the holiday season: our Techspert shows you how to avoid spam scams.

The post Ask the Techspert – Avoid Email Scams This Holiday Season. appeared first on Senior Planet.

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Source https://www.sonima.com/fitness/pain-healing-fitness/pain-free-updated-book-from-pete-egoscue/

Fifty years ago, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on the coast of North Carolina, Pete Egoscue began a quiet revolution in understanding our body’s posture and its relationship to pain.

It would be another seven years before he got his first clients, and another 11 before he opened his first clinic in San Diego. Today, he has 30 clinics across the world, millions of clients (including an impressive roster of professional athletes) functioning pain-free, and six best-selling books to his credit, with a seventh due out this week, a revised and updated version of his first, Pain Free.

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/11/studying-the-comparative-biology-of-aging-in-rockfish-species/

Rockfish species vary widely in lifespan. Some even exhibit negligible senescence, showing few signs of aging across the majority of their long life spans. When closely related species have divergent life spans, there is perhaps the opportunity to learn something of how metabolism determines longevity. Accordingly, researchers here report on their study of varied rockfish species, in search of the differences in the molecular biology of cells that lead to differences in life span and pace of aging.

In a new study, researchers compare the genomes of nearly two-thirds of the known species of rockfish that inhabit coastal waters around the Pacific Ocean and uncover some o…