by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
You know why they tell you to take a deep breath when you’re piping mad and ready to explode? It’s because deep breathing is incompatible with anger. Anger—and frustration, and annoyance, and irritation, and all the other negative toxic emotions—are little factories...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
The debate on whether walking is an effective fat burning exercise has been going on for decades, and shows no sign of abating. But that debate is irrelevant for our purposes. I don’t recommend walking for weight loss, I recommend it for mental health. Physiologically...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog, Nutrition, Weight-Loss
The liver is ground zero for detoxification in the body. It’s also the body’s main fat-burning organ. If it’s not working right, you’re in big trouble. What kind of trouble? Well, fatty liver disease for one. Known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), about...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
Our thoughts and feelings have a profound effect on our physiology. You may have heard said, “what you think about expands?” All that really means is that what you pay attention to, what you spend psychic energy on, has resonates deeply in your body and has a...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
Sleep is the ultimate anti-aging strategy. Anyone remember from the old movies how people who were stressed out and experiencing what was then quaintly called a “nervous breakdown” were sent away to a sanitarium for the “rest cure”? Makes sense when you think about...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
Years ago, I participated in a panel at a health and wellness fair sponsored by the Los Angeles Times. On this panel were a number of practitioners, many of them forward-thinking specialists in integrative and functional medicine. I don’t remember who I shared that...