longevity magazine
Longevity Magazine highlights health, wellness, anti-aging, inspirational weight loss stories, and healthy tips.
Lactation Fuel
Starting a family is a big venture, and not just in your house! I write this as I’m entering my own family building stage (man, the empathy I have for my patients and clients is even greater now that I’m the one on the other side of the pregnancy planning coin - this stuff is hard!).
By Emily the Period RDa day ago in Longevity
Turning the Ephemeral into the Concrete
Some experiences feel real while they are happening and unreal almost immediately afterward. A conversation that sparks clarity, a realization that reframes a problem, a moment where scattered thoughts suddenly align. In the moment, there is a sense that something solid has been grasped. But without capture, that solidity dissolves. What remains is a faint impression, detached from the reasoning that made it meaningful. The experience was real, but it left no durable trace.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 days ago in Longevity
The Phone Stacking Game
THE TABLE FULL OF STRANGERS The moment I realized phones had destroyed my friendships was during a dinner with four of my closest friends, people I had known for over a decade, people I supposedly loved and valued above almost everything else in my life, and I looked up from my own phone to see all four of them staring at their screens in complete silence, each person physically present at the same table but mentally absent in their own digital world, and the scene looked exactly like four strangers sitting near each other in an airport terminal rather than five close friends sharing a meal, and I realized that this had become normal, that our dinners together which used to involve hours of deep conversation, genuine laughter, shared vulnerability, and the kind of intimate knowing that comes from sustained attention to another person's actual face and actual words had devolved into a series of interruptions where every notification was immediately attended to while the living breathing humans across the table waited patiently for attention that their phones always received first.
By The Curious Writer8 days ago in Longevity
Having Value in a World That Doesn’t Pay for It
There is a particular kind of frustration that does not come from failure, but from misalignment. It arises when a person knows they are contributing something real, something valuable, and yet finds that value does not translate into stability, recognition, or material support. The work matters. The insight matters. The care is genuine. And still, the world responds with indifference. This disconnect is not imaginary, and it cuts deeper than simple disappointment because it challenges the assumption that value and reward naturally converge.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast11 days ago in Longevity
Visibility, Timing, and Readiness
Visibility is often treated as a reward, something earned through talent, effort, or persistence. It is framed as the natural next step once someone has something worthwhile to offer. But visibility is not neutral, and it is not automatically benevolent. Being seen amplifies everything at once: strengths, weaknesses, unfinished edges, unresolved wounds, and untested convictions. Once that amplification begins, there is no way to selectively mute what is not ready.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast14 days ago in Longevity
