Ageless Lifestyles - Dr. Michael Brickey

Ageless Lifestyles – Taking Care of Your Feet

billschiffler — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:45:03 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles,® interviews orthopedist Dr. Brett Ryan Fink, author of The Whole Foot Book: A Complete Program for Taking Care of Your Feet. Dr. Fink explains how most chronic foot problems don’t require surgery and gives practical advice on helping your feet.

Ageless Lifestyles – Handling Emergencies

billschiffler — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:25:17 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles,® interviews Rod Brouhard, author of Life’s Little Emergencies: A Handbook for Active Independent Seniors and Caregivers. The focus is on the logistics of using 911, EMS services, and health emergencies.

Ageless Lifestyles – Retirement Financial Planning and Pitfalls in a Flat Market

billschiffler — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:01:43 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles, interviews Certified Financial Planner Mark Singer on Retirement Financial Planning and Pitfalls. Mr. Singer explains how to cope with the current eleven-year flat market, and how to avoid common investment mistakes.

Ageless Lifestyles – Protecting Your Parents’ Money and Retirement

billschiffler — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:06:47 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles,® interviews Jeff Opdyke, a Wall St. Journal financial columnist and author of Protecting Your Parents’ Money: The Essential Guide to Helping Mom and Dad Navigate the Finances of Retirement. Learn how to talk with your parents about their finances and how to help them.

Ageless Lifestyles – Cosmetic Surgery: The State of the Art

billschiffler — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:02:17 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles® interviews Dr. Barry Lycka. a practicing cosmetic dermatologist and author of Skin Works. Dr. Lycka, an international leader in cosmetic surgery and treatments, shares advice and the latest developments in cosmetic therapies.

Ageless Lifestyles – Longitudinal Research on Health and Longevity: Tracking People for Eighty Years

billschiffler — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:15:03 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles® interviews Dr. Leslie Martin, coauthor of The Longevity Project. Following up on the children Lewis Terman started studying in the 1920s, The Longevity Project is probably the most comprehensive longitudinal study ever conducted on psychology, health, and longevity. The often surprising results yield practical advice

Ageless Lifestyles – Nutrition, Brains, Appetite and Weight Loss

billschiffler — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:04:57 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles® interviews pediatric brain surgeon Dr. Larry McCleary, author of Feed Your Brain Lose Your Belly. Dr. McCleary explains how to keep blood sugars at healthy levels and foster optimal brain functioning, optimal energy levels, and weight loss.

Ageless Lifestyles – Medical Testing, Over-Diagnosis, and Over-Treatment

billschiffler — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:45:57 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles® interviews internist and medical risk expert, Dr. H Gilbert Welch, the principle author of Over-Diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health. Dr. Welch explains how early diagnosis and changing the criteria for diseases often result in overtreatment and more harm than good.

Ageless Lifestyles – Aging, Mental Health, and Psychiatry

billschiffler — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:10:08 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles® interviews Dr. Marc Agronin, author of How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old. Dr. Agronin discusses stage theories of how we age and shares his rich clinical experience in helping seniors and nursing home residents live fulfilling lives.

Ageless Lifestyles – Longer Telomeres for Longer Lifespans

billschiffler — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:24:36 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles® interviews Dr. Michael Fossel, author of The Immortality Edge. Research indicates that the telomeres on the end of our chromosomes limit how many times most cells can divide. This in turn appears to limit human lifespans to about 120 years. Dr. Fossel and other telomere researchers, however, are finding ways to enhance telomeres.

Ageless Lifestyles – Rx for Healthcare Professionals: A Loving Heart

billschiffler — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:01:14 +0000

This is a special edition of Ageless Lifestyles® Rather than an interview with an anti-aging expert, I share an eight minute commencement address I gave for Fortis College, a private college for nurses and healthcare workers. What advice would you give to future nurses? Where is what I said:

Ageless Lifestyles – Anti-Aging Medicine + Holistic Medicine = Wellness and Longevity

billschiffler — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:16:39 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles®, interviews Dr. Terry Grossman founder of the Grossman Wellness Center. Dr. Grossman and invento/futurist Ray Kurzweil recently co-authored, Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever. Dr. Grossman gives practical advice and a preview of the future. Dr. Grossman predicts that within 20 years, medical advances will add more than a year of longevity for every year we live.

Ageless Lifestyles – What More Than 100 Years of Dieting Can Teach Us

billschiffler — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:11:34 +0000

Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey, host of Ageless Lifestyles® interviews Susan Yager, author of The 100 Year Diet

“New” diet ideas keep resurfacing like moles in an arcade Whack-a-Mole. Many are retreads of old diets and many are very unhealthy. Knowing the history and context of this insanity gives perspective and helps you be wiser in making sense of diet and weight loss advice.

Ageless Lifestyles – Why Many Health Problems are Really Hormone Problems

billschiffler — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:01:24 +0000

Guests: Dr. Sergey Dzugan and Dr. George Rozakis
Anti-aging medicine often has focused on time and symptoms instead the root causes of many diseases. The authors of Your Blood Doesn’t Lie, explain how when hormones are rebalanced to youthful levels, many health problems resolve themselves and cholesterol levels often return to normative levels. They give examples of how Restoration therapy helps with cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal problems, migraine headaches, autism, erectile dysfunction, ADHD, alcoholism, and many other health problems.

Ageless Lifestyles – How Sex Can Get Better With Age

billschiffler — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:13:46 +0000

The principal author of Sex & Love at Midlife: It’s Better Than Ever drew upon decades of clinical experience as a sex therapist and on interviews with 145 men and women ages 45 to 87. For some, sex gradually worsened with age, but for many, sex got better than ever. Sexologist Dr. Bernie Zilbergeld died before his book came to press this year. Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey interviews his brother and coauthor, Dr. George Zilbergeld about what makes for a great love and sex despite aging and even despite physical disabilities.

Ageless Lifestyles – Causes and Cures for Cardiovascular Disease

billschiffler — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:36:21 +0000

In an exception to the usual format, I present an unconventional view of dealing with cardiovascular disease.

Ageless Lifestyles – Capitalizing on Career Chaos

billschiffler — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:58:43 +0000

With an unshakable belief that we are meant to get better with age, Dr. Helen Harkness teaches people how to capitalize on chaos and reinvent their careers. Her starting point is getting rid of ageist myths and doing a soul searching self-assessment.

Ageless Lifestyles – You’re Never Too Old To Flirt

billschiffler — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:11:22 +0000

Flirting is like salt and pepper. Just a dash makes dinner so much more enjoyable. But if you try to flirt at 50, 60, or 70 the way you did at 20 or 30, you’ll look foolish and ridiculous. Barbara Bellman, author of Flirting After Fifty, uses her marketing and branding skills to help women and men can flirt at every age.

Ageless Lifestyles – Positive Psychology, Movies and Aging Well

billschiffler — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:06:15 +0000

Dr. Ryan Niemac looks at movies from the perspective of positive psychology to see how that lens can help us live longer, healthier, happier lives. This is an encore show.

Ageless Lifestyles – Easy Ways to Relieve Stress Pain

billschiffler — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:50:45 +0000

Licensed Massage Therapist Gini Maddocks taught herself how to overcome polio. Her easy, sweatless exercises can help you relieve aches and pains—and better yet avoid getting them. This is an encore show.

Ageless Lifestyles – How Art Can Help Us Age Better

billschiffler — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:50:04 +0000

Amy Gorman studied centenarian artists and documented their accomplishments in book and film. She shares what she learned from them and how art can help us age better. This is an encore show.

Ageless Lifestyles – Where is the Happiest Country in the World?

billschiffler — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:26:33 +0000

NPR foreign correspondent Eric Weiner went in search of the happiest country in the world. His findings will probably surprise you and give you some ideas about how to seek happiness in your own life.