Wellness for Midlife
Opioid addiction is widespread in the US: from 1999 to 2019, almost 500,000 people died of opioid overdoses. Some addictions start when recuperating patients receive opioids after surgery. I used opioid prescriptions to combat post-surgical pain after knee replacement in 2020, and getting off opioids turned out to be a major challenge in my recovery.
Here’s my personal account. I hope it may help you or a friend. Feel free to share this post.
[Read more…] about Getting off opioids after surgeryCarpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) affects three times as many women as men, particularly post-menopausal women in their fifties. Carpal tunnel release surgery, a simple procedure that relieves swelling and pain in the hand, is the most often performed hand surgery in the United States. In this post, I’ll tell you about my experience with CTS and my carpal tunnel release surgeries. I hope my story will help you decide how you want to deal with carpal tunnel pain you might have.
[Read more…] about Midlife hand pain: my experience with CTSI recently tried Valter Longo’s 5-Day Fast Mimicking Diet (FMD). My FMD experience showed me how you can gain the advantages of fasting without giving up food altogether. Read on to see how fasting and in particular the FMD works.
[Read more…] about My FMD experience: fasting without skipping mealsDo you like to cook, but worry whether your existing kitchen set-up is going to work for you as you grow older? It’s not to soon to consider how you might adapt your kitchen to serve you better.
Here are three levels of modifications you can make to prepare your kitchen to age in place. When thinking about aging in place in your kitchen, it’s best to consider how you want to adapt it over time. NOT to configure it now as if you’re certain to end up in a wheelchair!
[Read more…] about 3 ways to prepare your kitchen to age in placeEven if you don’t need grab bars or special modifications now, you should think about how you can make your bathroom safe and comfortable for years to come.
[Read more…] about 3 ways to prepare your bathroom to age in placeA relative newcomer to the diet scene, the MIND diet focuses on optimizing brain health. Martha Clare Morris of Rush University developed this offshoot of the Mediterranean Diet. She first published information on its effectiveness in 2015.
MIND stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurological Delay. I’ve been following its general guidelines for almost a year now. This post recounts my experience with the MIND diet and provides information to help you decide whether you want to try it yourself.
[Read more…] about My experience with the MIND diet
