Letters for a
healthier life.

What Happened to Natural Medicine, and Why Nobody Told You We are halfway through the year. It feels like a natural moment to pause and to say something that sits behind much of...

Why Sleep Might Be the Most Important Thing You Do All Day If you have come across Bryan Johnson in recent years, you will know he is not a conventional figure. The tech...

Your Body Has Two Ages. One of Them You Can Actually Change. You have a chronological age, which is simply the number of years you have been alive. But you also have a biological...

Last week, we looked at gardening, and a number of you mentioned the social side almost as an afterthought. The allotment neighbours, the community plot, the friend you potter...

A couple of weeks ago, so many of you wrote in to share what matters most about ageing well. Mobility came up again and again. So did memory. Energy. And the quiet determination...

After last week’s newsletter on healthspan, I asked a simple question: What concerns you most about ageing well? I expected a handful of replies. Instead, many of you got in...

Are We Living Longer, Or Just Living Less Well? We are living longer than previous generations. That much is true. Yet increasingly, many of those extra years appear to be spent...

As the weather begins to warm up for many of us, there is often a renewed focus on the skin. It is interesting that the global skincare industry is now worth billions, but I am...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at how modern life is shaping how we feel, from the amount of time we spend on screens to the growing demands on focus and...