40+ Fitness Podcast

You can lose weight fast after 40, but the faster the scale drops, the more likely you're losing muscle and water along with the fat, and that sets you up to regain the weight as fat. In this solo episode, Coach Allan answers the questions people ask most about fast weight loss: the fastest way to lose weight, whether to take a GLP-1 like Ozempic or Zepbound, whether weight-l...

Your brain has its own immune system, and whether those immune cells protect your brain or attack it depends largely on your metabolic health, which you control with what you eat, how you move, how you sleep, and even the air you breathe. Dr. David Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist and six-time New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain, Brain Maker, Drop Acid...

The way to recover stronger from surgery is to build the foundation before you ever get to the operating room: go in with as much muscle as you can keep, feed the repair with protein, and get your sleep, stress, and inflammation under control, then layer on advanced tools only with a doctor's guidance. Zora Benhamou is a gerontologist, healthy aging coach, and host of the Hac...

Better sleep after 40 comes from building the right daily rhythms, not from trying harder at bedtime. Mollie McGlocklin, creator of Sleep Is a Skill, makes the case that sleep is a learnable skill, and that forcing it or chasing a perfect score on your tracker usually makes it worse.

Mollie went through acute insomnia while traveling overseas and left doctor after doct...