athletics
Athletics and fitness are the essential ingredients for your body to live a long and healthy life.
Bananas vs. Apples: Which Fruit is Better for Your Blood Sugar?
We’ve all heard the age-old warning: "Eat too much fruit, and your blood sugar will spike." But if you are managing diabetes, prediabetes, or simply trying to maintain steady energy levels throughout the day, the choice between a banana and an apple can feel surprisingly high stakes.
By Epic Vibes4 days ago in Longevity
When Thinking Feels Like Action
There is a particular satisfaction that comes from understanding something clearly after wrestling with it for a long time. The mind settles. Tension releases. Pieces line up. In that moment, it can feel as though real movement has occurred, as though something meaningful has been accomplished. That feeling is not imagined. Cognitive resolution is a real event. The danger appears when that internal resolution is quietly mistaken for external change, and thinking begins to substitute for action rather than prepare the way for it.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 days ago in Longevity
Why Are Americans Retiring Abroad?
In the past decade, a notable trend has quietly gained momentum: an increasing number of Americans are choosing to retire outside the United States. Once seen as an unconventional choice, international retirement is now becoming a lifestyle decision backed by economic reasoning, health care considerations, adventure, and a longing for a different pace of life. As retirement landscapes shift globally, the U.S. is witnessing a growing exodus of retirees seeking not just sun and relaxation, but affordability, community, and quality of life abroad.
By AnthonyBTV8 days ago in Longevity
How Robots Are Changing Healthcare
How Robots Are Changing Healthcare One of the most transformative periods in healthcare's history is currently underway. Robotics, which was once mostly associated with manufacturing plants and science fiction, is at the center of this evolution. Today, robots assist surgeons, disinfect hospital rooms, deliver medications, support rehabilitation, and even provide companionship to patients.
By Farida Kabir11 days ago in Longevity
Preservation as an Act of Care
Care is usually associated with people, not with ideas. It brings to mind attentiveness, patience, protection, and responsibility toward something fragile. Meaning rarely enters that picture. Thoughts are assumed to be abundant, replaceable, and endlessly renewable. If one is lost, another will come. This assumption feels practical, but it is wrong in a quiet and costly way. Some meanings are not interchangeable. Some insights arrive only once, shaped by a particular moment, a particular season, or a particular convergence of experience that will never repeat in the same form.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast14 days ago in Longevity
Common Intimacy Mistakes Couples Make
Intimacy is one of the most important parts of a strong and lasting relationship. But for many couples, intimacy slowly fades over time—not because love disappears, but because small mistakes build up without anyone noticing.
By Artical Media18 days ago in Longevity
Roots and Fruit
Most people evaluate life by what shows. Results, behavior, success, failure, growth, collapse. Fruit is easier to measure than roots, so it becomes the focus almost by default. When something goes wrong, attention rushes to what is visible and immediate. When something goes right, credit is assigned to the most recent action. But this way of seeing consistently misreads causality. Fruit is never the beginning of the story. It is the result of something that has been growing quietly, often unnoticed, for a long time.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast18 days ago in Longevity
Ecclesiastes and the Weight of Meaninglessness
Have you ever noticed how unsettling Ecclesiastes feels compared to most of Scripture. It does not rush to reassure. It does not soften its conclusions. It returns again and again to the same observation: everything fades, everything repeats, and nothing under the sun seems capable of holding still long enough to become permanent. Wisdom fails to secure lasting satisfaction. Pleasure loses its edge. Work outlives the worker. Even moral effort appears unable to guarantee stability. For many readers, this tone feels almost dissonant, as if the book is saying out loud what faith is supposed to quiet.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast24 days ago in Longevity
After 20 Years in the Gym, I Quit for 3 Months. Here's What I Did Instead.
After 20 years of gym memberships, I needed a break. I usually take at least a month long sabbatical every year. But I didn't need that this year, I needed a break from the gym entirely. Yet I still wanted to get in my workouts. So I tested what would happen if I stripped fitness down to the bare minimum for a while.
By Destiny S. Harris25 days ago in Longevity
