Making my bed as soon as I get up. It's so relaxing at the end of the day to crawl into nice, smooth sheets. Naps. When I was 5 years old, and in kindergarten, I hated to be forced to take one every day. 65 years later, I see the errors of my youth.
You know those people who make you do a double-take when they mention their age? The ones who casually drop they're 52 but look like they could be in their mid-thirties? I met someone like this at a coffee shop last week. She mentioned her adult son was turning 30, and I nearly choked on my drink. I would've guessed she was maybe 40, tops. When I asked about her workout routine, she laughed and said she hadn't been to a gym in years.
After studying stem cell aging for decades, Dr. Thomas Rando learned that some of the best longevity advice is timeless. "I often make the joke that the billions of dollars that have been spent on studying healthy aging could come down to the two things your mother told you," Rando, the president of the American Federation for Aging Research and director of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center at UCLA, told Business Insider.
