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This Living to 100 Club’s podcast introduces our listeners to Samaritan’s Feet International. This is an organization devoted to giving shoes to seniors around the world. Our guest is Deborah Cox-Roush, Development Officer, and Senior Program Manager for the organization. We discuss the prevalence of foot problems in older adults. How does the lack of proper footwear increase the risk of falls. She explains how it contributes to balance problems, foot pain, and difficulty with mobility and independence. How does the aging process affect the biomechanics, structure, and function of the foot? How does proper footwear contribute to a more comfortable, happy life marked with dignity and hope? And how does Samaritan’s Feet reach the shoeless around the world and distribute footwear to these millions of people? Tune in for this important conversation. 

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Deborah is the Senior Program Manager of Samaritan’s Feet for Seniors. She developed this program to serve senior citizens with new shoes while also giving them hope through service to them. Deborah said she’ll never forget the smiles on the recipients’ faces. She can see the feeling of self-worth and dignity that they experienced while serving for the first time with Samaritan’s Feet. She also enjoys reading, watching college sports (especially Ohio State football), and traveling with her husband on day trips. 

Website: www.SamaritansFeet.org/Seniors
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On this Living to 100 Club podcast, we invite Dr. Torkil Faero to discuss the value of monitoring our heart rate variability. Dr. Faero’s latest best-selling book, The Pulse Cure, focuses on the strategies to staying healthy. It explains how to use a smart watch or other wearable device to monitor heart rate variability. We discuss the now well-known strategies for longevity, including nutrition, exercise, reduced alcohol consumption and stress levels, hydration, and cold-water immersion. According to Dr. Faero, 9 out of 10 diseases are associated with and detectable by abnormal heart rate. Therefore, by monitoring our own heart rates, we can take proactive, preventive steps to return to healthy baselines.

How can we use a heart rate monitor to measure our heart rate variability? What are the best smart watches to purchase?  We answer these and other questions to help us stay more informed about owning another key to longevity. 

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Dr Torkil Færø is a general practitioner and emergency physician, documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer. In 1996 he was one of the first Norwegian medics to work for Doctors Without Borders when he worked in war-torn Angola. Over a 25-year career as a freelance doctor, he has worked all over Norway. He has had tens of thousands of consultations and gained a unique picture of the diseases that plague us. He has learned that the cause is most often found in the stresses our lifestyles place on our bodies. 

Dr. Færø is also an award-winning photographer, author of Kamerakuren (The Camera Cure). He has made documentaries about his pilgrimages to Nidaro and Santiago de Compostela. An inveterate traveler, he has made his way by bicycle, motorbike, kayak, boat, and car through over 80 countries, and speaks eight languages. He lives in Oslo with his wife and two children. 

The Pulse Cure has spent 58 weeks on the best seller list. It has been sold to five languages: Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Polish and World English. Færø believes that the book’s appeal lies in the fact that many people experience the immediate effects of The Pulse Cure. 

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Dr. Faero's new book: The Pulse Cure
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Our guest on this Living to 100 Club podcast is Dr. Marjorie Burns, who goes by the name, Bijee. In this conversation, we learn about Bijee’s latest period of her life as the author of a new book of fiction, The New Cadets. And, as a very busy octogenarian, we learn about her attitude to “keep it moving.” Now in her 80’s, our guest hikes, bicycles and skis in her home state of Washington. She has a 27-foot climbing wall in her home, which she puts to good use. Why does she stay so physically active? Does her chronological age ever tell her to slow down? As a writer of academic books, papers and journal articles, how did she come to write a children’s book? What was the inspiration for The New Cadets? And how will this new series of children’s books unfold?

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Marjorie Burns, author of The New Cadets, was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, earning her PhD with a dissertation on fantasy and children’s literature in nineteenth-century England. She taught English literature and writing at Portland State University for more than 30 years and has published extensively in her field, largely on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. She is now retired from university teaching, and as a healthy, vibrant octogenarian, lives in the Cascade mountains of Washinton State.

Marjorie's Latest Book

The New Cadets
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On this Living to 100 Club podcast, we hear a love story from our guest, Sarah Cart. Sarah shares the journey of her husband’s acute medical illness and serious decline during Covid. In this conversation, she shares the toll it took on her and her entire family. These include her husband's kidney failure, hip fracture, and congestive heart failure to a heart transplant, cardiac rehabilitation and recovery from painkillers. Throughout all, Sarah’s husband, Ben, experienced an onslaught of hospitalizations, surgeries, and near-death experiences. Sarah recounts this journey in her new book, On My Way Back to You: One Couple’s Journey through Catastrophic Illness to Healing and Hope. This is truly a love story. We discuss our guest’s unexpected role as caregiver and her struggles with Covid lockdowns during the hospitalizations. She describes her learning the challenges of home health, and other trying episodes. We also hear about the upsides to this struggle. This includes the favorable responses to the medical care Ben had, and the positive lessons she can share about caring for other caregivers.

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SARAH CART was raised and educated in New York and New England and wrote for multiple local publications while she and her husband, Ben, raised four sons in northeastern Ohio. Upon becoming empty nesters, the two moved to the Florida Keys. They returned every summer to the Pennsylvania Poconos, where each had lifelong family connections. Then came COVID-19. The pandemic, combined with Ben’s health issues, necessitated their sheltering in place in Florida for the entirety of 2020. In the wake of Ben’s undergoing miraculous lifesaving measures, they have been afforded the unanticipated gift of a future and, more than ever before, relish time spent with family and friends.

Sarah's Book

On My Way Back to You: One Couple’s Journey through Catastrophic Illness to Healing and Hope


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This Living to 100 Club podcast invites as its guest Michael Rubino, the founder of Home Cleanse. Home Cleanse is dedicated to addressing poor indoor air quality, a factor that has worsened in recent years. This is especially so as our homes get more energy efficient. Because energy efficiency impacts ventilation and air exchange, particles and toxins can increase. In turn, this contributes to spores and mold growth.

Our guest educates us on the relationship between poor air quality and respiratory-borne illness. He also shares recent research showing how poor air quality contributes to skin conditions, poor cognition, even dementia. We review simple methods to detect poor air quality, and recommended solutions with poor test results. Of great importance is the development of testing platforms that now look at connections between tests for undiagnosed medical conditions ordered by physicians and test results of the assessments. This is an eye-opening conversation with an authority in air quality and environmental wellness advocate.

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Michael is an air quality expert, environmental wellness advocate, founder, speaker, podcaster, author, father and husband. On a mission to bridge the gap between our homes and our health, Michael put his background in construction and remediation to good use. He founded All American Restoration in 2017 which more recently became HomeCleanse, an organization that operates in 50 states. HomeCleanse has become America’s go-to source for information, services, and products to create healthier living through cleaner indoor air. He is also the president of Change the Air foundation, a nonprofit organization giving every person the knowledge, resources, and support to achieve better health. This is accomplished by breathing safe indoor air, through education, impacting public policy and funding research.

Michael's Website: Home Cleanse
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This Living to 100 Club podcast introduces our audience to Hormone Replacement Therapy. We discuss the use of all natural hormones that ease the degenerative side effects of aging. Our guest, Dr. Greg Brannon, is the Founder and Medical Director of Optimal Bio. This company specializes in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT). We learn how BHRT is different from the usual therapy with synthetic hormone replacement. BHRT uses hormones that are identical to hormones made by our body. Our guest explains how BHRT combats fatigue, osteoporosis, and headaches as well as the toxins that we are exposed to in our everyday environment. Dr. Brannon maintains these changes are attributable to decreasing levels of hormones, not to aging itself. How is this treatment applied and how frequently is it needed? And, most importantly, why is it so effective in the face of reduced rates of testosterone and estrogen in contemporary society? Be sure to tune in to this insightful conversation with a medical authority in hormone replacement therapy. 

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As an OB-GYN for more than twenty-five years, Dr. Greg Brannon is an expert in the hormonal changes that occur throughout one’s lifetime. Dr. Brannon graduated from the University of Southern California in 1982. He went on to graduate from The University of Health and Science Chicago Medical School in 1988 and completed his residency in OB-GYN at the University of Southern California Women’s Hospital in 1992. He served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and has been in private practice in the Raleigh-Durham area since 1993. His medical practice, Optimal Bio, now has seven locations across the Southeast. Dr. Brannon lives in North Carolina with his lovely wife, Jody, where they have raised seven children.  

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Dr. Brannon's website: Optimal Bio
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