One of the key aspects of the Motion portion of the Empire Longevity 'Pyramid of Health' is - posture, along with cardio, power, flexibility and balance. Posture is one of the simplest ways to start engaging your clients in their longevity.  I have been evaluating and then correcting posture of patients for all of my Chiropractic career, and h...

 There was a book I picked up in 2011 or so as I was digging even deeper into how important YOUR posture was. The book is called "The Downside of Upright Posture". It takes a detailed view into how important your posture is and how devastating it can be if we are not aligned correctly.  We take digital posture pictures in our office on ev...

When asking people "When do you think you should start thinking about your longevity?", many people will raise their gaze to the sky, tilt their head slightly, and as if they were looking at the sun, squint their eyes and say "When I'm OLD. Like in my 60s, 70s, or older".  I understand where the idea comes from as most us think longevity is re...

From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, we find the definition for VITAL: /ˈvīd(ə)l/ adjective 1. absolutely necessary or important; essential: "Absolutely NECESSARY". Let's start THERE. Those things that are absolutely necessary for us to reach the coveted 'more better years' we banter about often in Empire Longevity. What are those things tha...

... is KIND of how the saying goes. It actually is "Eat Breakfast like a King. Lunch like a Prince. Dinner like a pauper".  The main concept of this saying is that we should eat our calories earlier in the day. Studies have shown that people who consume the same amount of calories, but eat them earlier in the day actually lose weight compared ...

Dentists don't have to ask if you are going to be brushing your teeth for the next decades, or for the rest of your life. They know you are going to. No debate about it.  When your prescribing Doctor tells you that "you will be taking this for the rest of your life", there really is no

This comes up much more often that you would think. People telling me that 1. They are 'too old' to start their longevity trek, or 2. They are 'too young' to start their longevity trek.  When you take a step back and analyze both of these answers, we have to wonder why both groups think that their time on the planet has automatically excluded ...

So you have decided, or having been making those steps to enhance your next decades, but you are not fully sure where to start or fully engage for your NEXT BEST DECADES. THIS is one of the staggering aspects of LONGEVITY, in that many people just don't know where to start. So they don't. In a sense of massive overwhelm the days, the weeks, the mon...

Your own health is a critical aspect of your longevity. There is no other way around it. To be able to enjoy longevity, to squeeze the sparks out of days, months, years and decades you have to make your own personal health a priority. From the times that you want to spend with your friends or grandchildren, to the moments of catching your favorite ...

In the Magician's Nephew C.S. Lewis describes the previously dark heaven of Narnia and the appearance of all the stars in it as 'a thousand points of light'. That term was then later used by George H. W. Bush in his Presidential acceptance speech as he likened the clubs and volunteerism of America to "a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a...

One of the integral parts of the Empire Longevity Pyramid of Health is MOTION (see the Empire Longevity White Paper: A Core Understanding). Easily the most overlooked aspect of this facet is how your posture is critical for your best health and LONGEVITY. Overlooked, or interpreted incorrectly on many health exams, posture is an inexpensive, if not...

We are still a long, very raucous, and what will be a very tiring run up to the 2020 Presidential election. One of the very heated talking points, and one that will be under the very deep inspection by EMPIRE LONGEVITY, is Health Care. The Democrat leaders in the race are stumping for a Medicare For All type of health care system, in which everyone...

Jen is currently the Chair of the Cortland Music Department in Cortland, NY and teaches middle school choir, general music and high school modern band. In her tenure at Cortland she has been recognized for her passion and excellence in teaching, receiving the regional Apple for the Teacher Award and the Cortland Peer Recognition Award. Her commitme...

"Yes, you DO have great insurance. It's just that we do not have enough doctors to see all the patients we have" could be a very real problem, very quickly. In 2018 the Association of American Medical Colleges made the dire prediction that America will have a shortage of 120,000 doctors by 2030. Just when the end of the Baby Boomers will be well en...

The simplicity of eating food that is not only interesting, but full of taste AND can help you to be healthier is a basis of the Empire Longevity Pyramid of Health. Discussed often and mentioned through out Empire Longevity, ROCKET FUEL is not based on eating fads, trends, or the latest weight loss/cleanse program. The ROCKET FUEL portion of Empire...

Here's homework for you: With this time that we have, with it, what else do you want to learn? This is just me, but I find it to have the knowledge, the time, and the focus that we have with our added years that we don't do more with it. This is just me, but I think we need to make a bigger impact upon our communities, upon our families, upon our f...

Amongst the everyday deluge of the seemingly incessant messages of even bigger parts of the healthy sky falling to the ground is the intentional vacuum of how just incredible YOUR body is. You are regularly bashed over the head on how bad THAT bug is, and the NEXT one coming could be even worse when all the while not a peep on just how you and I, o...

By far the hardest thing to overcome for any long journey is idea that it IS a long journey. Who the hell in their right mind says to themselves "You know, I fully understand this is going to be a long journey and I SO look forward to every day of it". It just doesn't happen. Be honest. If you REALLY knew how long your life was going to be you prob...