This week I had the exciting honor of attending and presenting at the AARP Livable Communities Placemaking Workshop in Denver, CO.  Here are few takeaways and insights as I see them: Fun fact #1, AARP is no longer about retired ...

“My mother had dementia, so I will too.” I hear this common misconception all the time, so allow me to clarify a few things.  Dementia is not a disease or trait.  It is not a genetic certainty like eye color ...

We humans are an interesting breed. We have the capacity to learn what causes disease, how to treat it, and how to cure it. We spend a boatload of money on medical research, looking for disease treatments and cures.  And ...

*** Our modern day diets look nothing like that of our ancestors.  Although our basic human physiology has been exactly the same for the last 200,000 years, our dietary intake has changed dramatically, especially within just the last 50 years. ...

… Nobody likes hypotheticals, especially the real-life kind that play out beyond the laboratory microscopes and petri dishes. And I hate to be a Debbie-Downer, but after billions of dollars and hundreds of single-therapeutic drug failures, at some point you’ve ...