The Flipping 50 Show

Got Gas? The Inconvenient Truth About Digestion In The Second Fifty addresses a stinky little challenge of being "old farts." More older adults have digestive issues than younger in part because of antibiotics, stress, and diseases that cause changes in enzymes and gut bacteria. Some insights on the causes and culprits and on the solutions for feeling better. If you're avoiding exercise due to embarrassment or discomfort, this can help you get back in action and stay that way. Ultimately, moving more will help everything move better.  Learn more about a fitness and well second fifty at www.voiceforfitness.com/activeagingsecrets Visit https://www.voiceforfitness.com/allagesfitness for the yoga sequence discussed here to target digestive ease

Mood Boosting Depression Busting Tips for Mental Health Awareness Week. This special list of wellness activities integrates everything from nutrition, exercise to sunlight and exercising your creative right brain. Depression and anxiety effect so many Americans, in fact most of us at times experience either chronic depression, temporary or situational depression, or seasonal affective disorder. As we approach fall and winter with shorter days and less sunlight, it becomes more important to consider how to combat those effects. None of us is immune. Though we might not need medication, who doesn't want to be in a better mood most of the time? Would your family or co-workers complain? www.voiceforfitness.com/activeagingsecrets www.voiceforfitness.com/foreverfab

Your stress levels now are not your only worry. The short term nuisance of forgetting details can lead to longer term issues of dementia. There is a solution, many actually, affordable, accessible and that can take as little as minutes to work. Listen as Daniel Mauro discusses recent research including that on yoga and its brain benefits. Stay til the end for a checklist of healthy brain habits. reach Daniel at support@newmindinnovations.com and see the High Performance Brain Magazine in the iTunes newstand. Find more about Wellu at www.voiceforfitness.com

Your foods can either kill you or heal you. Strong and bold statement, but as our guest today Steve Ellenberg of Boulder, CO tells us it isn't far from the truth. Inflammation caused by a number of true medical conditions is exaccerbated by inflammatory effects of foods. As Steve tells it, he has living proof. This 73 year old shares his discovery of the finer points of green drinks and the connection with spinal stenosis pain. www.voiceforfitness.com/activeagingsecrets

My Guests Dr Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver, founders and directors of the TantraNova institute in Chicago share their work helping more than ten thousand couples and singles rekindling and expanding their love and relationships over the past decade. Learn more about deepening your relationship with yourself as well as loved ones and enjoy a practice on this episode. Listeners may go to www.TantraNova.com for a free gift: 10-Practice in Creating Intimacy & Love. Providing workshops, retreats, Elsbeth and Freddy bring freedom and security to a topic we often don't discuss, yet is crucial to sustaining life long energy and satisfaction. Vist www.voiceforfitness.com/activeagingsecrets for more information on the most WellU can be.

The family is nearly grown, the career going strong, the financial stability sound and the "things" around you collected. You know there's something more you're meant to be doing or to this experience of life. Putting your finger on it starts with discovering and revealing your "story." Shedding the mask you wear to convince others and yourself it's all OK takes some work. Listen as Coach Kaeleya Rayne shares her process and the rewards of going through this life-enriching process. Learn more about her at www.BeYourBliss.com A newsletter shared in Active Aging Secrets will relay a portion of this transcript. www.voiceforfitness.com/activeagingsecrets

We hit four of six areas of integrated fitness after 50 today. Get out your pencil and paper or start counting on your fingers. See how many you're already doing and where you need to buff up. You're exercising? So are you doing cardio, strength and mobility in the right doses? Are you doing an interval day, a longer easy day and a tempo day? Find out. All based on recent longevity results and research we know helps deter disease and conditions that stop you from living the life you want. Jump in and take action. www.voiceforfitness.com/activeagingsecrets 

Using a collection of books and resources we look at finding the strengths our unique personalities have so we can use them to interact, influence and operate as our highest selves. Resources include Sacred Contracts by Carolyn Myss, How The World Sees You by Sally Hogshead, and Relationship Selling with Jim Cathcart, as well as any content by Eben Pagan. For more information and resources visit www.voiceforfitness.com  

Ironman Harvey Golomb is my guest today. Like many drawn to the sport of triathlon, Harvey wasn't a high school athlete, though he loved to be active. The triathlete completed the inaugural Boulder Ironman just three days ago as we had our interview. Not his first, his fourth. Finishing stronger and feeling fitter than ever hear how he approaches his life in retirement - or rewirement - and what's ahead. www.voiceforfitness.com

Meet Susan McNaMee whose enthusiasm about an active lifestyle is infectious. Not one, but two-time Ironman as of last Sunday in Boulder Colorado, Susan was signed up for her first Ironman (a 2.4 mile swim kicks it off) before she knew how to swim. You may just raise the roof on your possibilities listening to this 62-year old. www.voiceforfitness.com