The Vitality Choice

How many times have you promised yourself this was the week you'd start? The diet on Monday. The workout tomorrow. The change you keep meaning to make. And how many times did the day come, and you let it slide? We tend...

Every culture keeps a phrase for telling you you're finished. For a woman it's "a woman of a certain age." For a man it's "past his prime" or "over the hill." Two phrases, one identical message: your best days are...

I want to start with a picture. Three women standing together: my grandmother, my mother, and me. Three generations in one frame. If you have a photo like that, of the people you came from standing next to you, hold it...

If you've been with me through this whole first stretch of episodes, you've taken in a lot. Muscle, protein, strength training, cardio, food noise, the gut, and how to turn on your own natural GLP-1. And I imagine some...

Right now, millions of people are paying hundreds of dollars a month for an injection that turns down appetite and steadies metabolism. Here's what surprised me when I really dug in: your body already makes the exact...

Have you ever snapped at someone you love over something small and thought, that wasn't even me? Or woken up under a gray cloud you couldn't explain, with nothing actually wrong in your life? We tend to treat those...

Let me describe someone. She eats beautifully in front of other people and looks completely in control. Then she gets home, the door closes, and something else takes over. The next morning she swears today will be...

The Truth About Cardio, HIIT, and Longevity (And Why I'd Still Choose the Weights) I'm going to say something the fitness world will not like. If I could only do one form of exercise for the rest of my life, cardio or...

Strength Training for Beginners Over 40: Start With the Movements That Matter "Christine, I've never done this. I'm over 40. Where do I even start?" It's the question I get more than almost any other, and this episode...

Listening to the Body: What Your Symptoms Are Trying to Tell You, with Beth Mielbrecht My guest today comes at health from a very different angle than I usually do on this show. Beth Mielbrecht spent decades as a...

The official protein guideline is 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight. For a 150-pound person, that's about 55 grams a day. For an active adult over 40 who wants to keep muscle and age with strength, the research...

Muscle Protein Synthesis: The One Process That Keeps You Strong, and How to Turn It On In Episode 3, I told you muscle doesn't decline only because you're getting older. It declines because your body stops receiving a...

Muscle After 40: Why Strength Is the Key to Independence Muscle may be the most misunderstood and underused tool any of us has, and it's the one thing that determines whether your body keeps working for you as the years...

Healthspan vs Lifespan: Why Aging Well Is a Skill There are two words that shape how the second half of your life will feel: lifespan and healthspan. They sound similar, but they point in very different directions...

Welcome to the very first episode of The Vitality Choice. For most of our lives, we've been told that aging means getting weaker, gaining weight, losing energy, taking more medications, and accepting decline as...