The Aging Well Podcast

Jeff Armstrong

The Aging Well Podcast explores what it truly means to live well. Hosted by Dr. W. Jeffrey Armstrong, a PhD exercise physiologist, the show goes beyond traditional conversations about longevity to explore the science and philosophy of human flourishing. Through engaging conversations with experts, we examine the Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Social dimensions of well-being. Whether discussing exercise, nutrition, sleep, Purpose, resilience, relationships, or healthy aging, every episode is guided by one question: How do we become our best today—and better tomorrow?

  1. 12h ago

    Cognitive Longevity: Protecting the Brain for a Longer, Better Life | Dr. Ramon Velazquez | Ep.476

    Living longer is only part of the equation for healthy aging. Increasingly, researchers and clinicians are asking a different question: How can we preserve cognitive function so that a longer life remains an independent, engaged, and meaningful life? In this episode of The Aging Well Podcast, Dr. Jeff Armstrong speaks with neuroscientist Dr. Ramon Velazquez about the emerging concept of cognitive longevity and why brain health deserves a more prominent place in conversations about aging well. They explore how the aging brain changes, the relationship between cognitive function and independence, and how advances in neuroscience are reshaping our understanding of healthy cognitive aging. The conversation also examines nootropics and the evidence behind nutritional approaches to cognitive health, including what research can—and cannot—tell us about their potential role in supporting memory, attention, focus, and information processing. Ultimately, cognitive longevity isn't simply about remembering more or thinking faster. It's about preserving the cognitive capacity that allows us to remain capable, connected, purposeful, and engaged throughout the aging process. Learn more at https://www.mindlabpro.com/ SUPPORT THE AGING WELL PODCAST If you're enjoying The Aging Well Podcast, please take a moment to like, subscribe, or follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode. And if you find our conversations helpful, please share the podcast with a friend. Aging is something we're all doing, and we're better at it together! TIP JAR – SUPPORT THE SHOW All contributions help support the production of The Aging Well Podcast and allow us to continue bringing you thoughtful, evidence-informed conversations about Transformative Aging, Well-Centered Fitness, and Human Flourishing. Support the podcast through PayPal: https://paypal.me/theagingwellpodcast OUR TRUSTED AGING WELL PARTNERS The Aging Well Podcast is independently produced and supported in part by affiliate partnerships. We carefully select companies and products that align with our philosophy of healthy aging, physical vitality, and human flourishing. Explore our trusted partners and take advantage of exclusive discounts: https://sites.google.com/view/theagingwellpodcast/home

  2. 2d ago

    Beauty, Purpose, and Reinvention: What Aging Can Teach Us About Living Well | Ted Gibson | Ep.475

    What does beauty have to do with aging well? After more than three decades as a celebrity hairstylist, salon owner, beauty entrepreneur, and television personality, Ted Gibson has learned that beauty is about far more than appearance. Behind the chair and on fashion sets, he saw firsthand how confidence, stress, identity, relationships, and emotional well-being shape the way people experience themselves. In this episode of The Aging Well Podcast, Dr. Jeff Armstrong and Corbin Bruton talk with Ted about the deeper connections between beauty, wellness, and human flourishing. Ted shares how caring for his mother through dementia, experiencing grief and loss, and reinventing his own life at 60 reshaped his understanding of purpose. The conversation explores human connection, marriage, caregiving, grief, personal reinvention, and the daily rituals that can help us feel better, look better, and live better. It is ultimately a conversation about seeing beauty not simply as something we project outward, but as part of a larger experience of living well. Learn more at https://tedgibson.com/ Instagram: @tedgibson SUPPORT THE AGING WELL PODCAST If you're enjoying The Aging Well Podcast, please take a moment to like, subscribe, or follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode. And if you find our conversations helpful, please share the podcast with a friend. Aging is something we're all doing, and we're better at it together! TIP JAR – SUPPORT THE SHOW All contributions help support the production of The Aging Well Podcast and allow us to continue bringing you thoughtful, evidence-informed conversations about Transformative Aging, Well-Centered Fitness, and Human Flourishing. Support the podcast through PayPal: https://paypal.me/theagingwellpodcast OUR TRUSTED AGING WELL PARTNERS The Aging Well Podcast is independently produced and supported in part by affiliate partnerships. We carefully select companies and products that align with our philosophy of healthy aging, physical vitality, and human flourishing. Explore our trusted partners and take advantage of exclusive discounts: https://sites.google.com/view/theagingwellpodcast/home

  3. 4d ago

    Lifestyle Medicine: Can Everyday Choices Prevent and Reverse Chronic Disease? | Dr Ann Hester | Ep. 474

    What if some of the most powerful tools for preventing and managing chronic disease aren't found in a prescription bottle, but in the choices we make every day? Lifestyle Medicine takes a different approach to health—one that recognizes the profound influence of nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, social connection, and other daily behaviors on our risk for chronic disease and our ability to live well as we age. In this episode of The Aging Well Podcast, Dr. Jeff Armstrong speaks with Dr. Ann Hester, a double board-certified physician in Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine and author of Lifestyle Medicine: A Scientifically Proven Path to Prevent, Treat, or Reverse Chronic Disease. After nearly 30 years of caring for patients, Dr. Hester now focuses on translating the science of Lifestyle Medicine into practical strategies people can actually use. Dr. Hester explains what Lifestyle Medicine is, why it remains unfamiliar to so many people, and what the evidence tells us about the potential to prevent, treat, and in some cases reverse chronic disease through intensive lifestyle intervention. They also explore the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine and how seemingly small changes can compound into meaningful improvements in healthspan, longevity, and quality of life. Learn more at https://PTRReset.com https://www.patientworld.net/ Instagram: @coachdrann and @herhealthandwealthtribe BUY Lifestyle Medicine: A Scientifically Proven Path to Prevent, Treat, or Reverse Chronic Disease on Amazon at https://amzn.to/4hfLq5c SUPPORT THE AGING WELL PODCAST If you're enjoying The Aging Well Podcast, please take a moment to like, subscribe, or follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode. And if you find our conversations helpful, please share the podcast with a friend. Aging is something we're all doing, and we're better at it together! TIP JAR – SUPPORT THE SHOW All contributions help support the production of The Aging Well Podcast and allow us to continue bringing you thoughtful, evidence-informed conversations about Transformative Aging, Well-Centered Fitness, and Human Flourishing. Support the podcast through PayPal: https://paypal.me/theagingwellpodcast OUR TRUSTED AGING WELL PARTNERS The Aging Well Podcast is independently produced and supported in part by affiliate partnerships. We carefully select companies and products that align with our philosophy of healthy aging, physical vitality, and human flourishing. Explore our trusted partners and take advantage of exclusive discounts: https://sites.google.com/view/theagingwellpodcast/home

  4. Nov 5

    The Glory of the Commons: Gratitude, Gift, and the Purpose of Aging | Ep.

    What can a handful of berries teach us about how to live—and how to age? In a recent episode of The Aging Well Podcast, Corbin shared a simple story about picking berries in Oregon. Dr. Armstrong relates it to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry. This opens a much larger question: What happens when we stop seeing the world primarily as a collection of things to acquire and begin seeing it as a web of gifts? In this special Centered conversation, Jeff and Corbin explore Kimmerer’s vision of the gift economy, where gratitude and reciprocity become a kind of currency. The serviceberry becomes a powerful metaphor: the sun gives its energy, the plant gives its fruit, birds and animals participate in the cycle, and the gift continues moving through the ecosystem. From there, the conversation moves from the gift of the sun to the gift of love, from gratitude to what Jeff calls “grattitude”—an attitude of gratitude, and from the familiar Tragedy of the Commons to the possibility of what might be called the Glory of the Commons: a community in which shared abundance creates relationship, responsibility, and flourishing rather than depletion. And ultimately, the conversation turns toward aging. What if aging is not primarily a process of loss, decline, and diminishing usefulness, but an opportunity for ascension—a movement toward greater perspective, gratitude, generosity, purpose, and participation in something larger than ourselves? SUPPORT THE AGING WELL PODCAST If you're enjoying The Aging Well Podcast, please take a moment to like, subscribe, or follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode. And if you find our conversations helpful, please share the podcast with a friend. Aging is something we're all doing, and we're better at it together! TIP JAR – SUPPORT THE SHOW All contributions help support the production of The Aging Well Podcast and allow us to continue bringing you thoughtful, evidence-informed conversations about Transformative Aging, Well-Centered Fitness, and Human Flourishing. Support the podcast through PayPal: https://paypal.me/theagingwellpodcast OUR TRUSTED AGING WELL PARTNERS The Aging Well Podcast is independently produced and supported in part by affiliate partnerships. We carefully select companies and products that align with our philosophy of healthy aging, physical vitality, and human flourishing. Explore our trusted partners and take advantage of exclusive discounts: https://sites.google.com/view/theagingwellpodcast/h

  5. Nov 3

    Fit but Not Healthy: The Wake-Up Call That Changed How We Age | Heather Watkins | Ep. 472

    What happens when someone who has spent her entire life studying health and fitness discovers that looking healthy doesn't necessarily mean being healthy? At 48, Heather Watkins was a fitness and nutrition professional who exercised consistently, maintained a healthy weight, didn't smoke or drink, and had built her career around helping others live healthier lives. Then, one morning, a phone call from an employee about her grandmother having a possible heart attack became an unexpected realization: Heather was having a heart attack herself. Heather survived a widowmaker heart attack—and the experience fundamentally changed the way she understood health. In this episode of The Aging Well Podcast, Dr. Jeff Armstrong talks with Heather about the warning signs she overlooked, the limitations of using appearance and fitness as proxies for health, and the lessons she learned about cardiovascular health, stress, recovery, sleep, metabolic health, and longevity. Heather also shares why she believes women over 40 need to move beyond an exclusive focus on weight loss and begin thinking about the body they want to carry into the next 30 years of life. Learn more at https://hlwatkinsfit.com/ Instagram: @hlwatkinsfit SUPPORT THE AGING WELL PODCAST If you're enjoying The Aging Well Podcast, please take a moment to like, subscribe, or follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode. And if you find our conversations helpful, please share the podcast with a friend. Aging is something we're all doing, and we're better at it together! TIP JAR – SUPPORT THE SHOW All contributions help support the production of The Aging Well Podcast and allow us to continue bringing you thoughtful, evidence-informed conversations about Transformative Aging, Well-Centered Fitness, and Human Flourishing. Support the podcast through PayPal: https://paypal.me/theagingwellpodcast OUR TRUSTED AGING WELL PARTNERS The Aging Well Podcast is independently produced and supported in part by affiliate partnerships. We carefully select companies and products that align with our philosophy of healthy aging, physical vitality, and human flourishing. Explore our trusted partners and take advantage of exclusive discounts: https://sites.google.com/view/theagingwellpodcast/home

  6. Nov 1

    Embracing Aging: From Managing Aging to Living It | Tom Stofac | Ep 471

    What happens when someone who has spent more than four decades studying, managing, and serving older adults suddenly finds himself on the other side of the equation—as the consumer of aging services? For gerontologist and retired aging-services CEO Tom Stofac, that transition has provided a very different perspective on what it means to grow older. In his book Embracing Aging: A Gerontologist's Journey from Provider to Consumer, Stofac reflects on the shift from professionally understanding aging to personally experiencing it. In this episode of The Aging Well Podcast, Tom and Dr. Jeff Armstrong explore what changes when we stop thinking about aging as something to manage and begin experiencing it as something to inhabit. They discuss the importance of perspective, choice, dignity, independence, partnership, and personal agency—and why the language and assumptions surrounding aging can profoundly influence how we experience it. Most importantly, this conversation asks a fundamental question: What does it mean to embrace aging rather than simply endure it? Learn more at https://peaceinthejourneypress.com/ Please, support The Aging Well Podcast by hitting the ‘like’ button, subscribing/following the podcast, sharing with a friend, and…. Tip Jar! All donations support this podcast to keep it going. https://paypal.me/theagingwellpodcast BUY the products you need to… age well from our trusted affiliates and support the mission of The Aging Well Podcast. (We receive commission on these purchases. Thank you.) The Aging Well Podcast merchandise | Show how you are aging well | Use the promo code AGING WELL for free shipping on orders over $75 | https://theagingwellpodcast-shop.fourthwall.com/promo/AGINGWELL Auro Wellness | Glutaryl—Antioxidant spray that delivers high doses of glutathione (“Master Antioxidant”) and the new Copper Tripeptide (GHK-Cu) | 10% off Code: AGINGWELL at https://aurowellness.com/agingwellpodcast Nutritional Biochemical Inc. (NBI) | Trusted supplement. NBI stands 100% behind the quality of their formulations and the science on which they’re based. | Click the following link and use the discount code AGINGWELL for 10% off: https://shop.nbihealth.com/agingwell Jigsaw Health | Trusted supplements. “It’s fun to feel good.” | Click the following link and use the discount code AGINGWELL for 10% off: https://bit.ly/4ks3Y0O Berkeley Life | Optimize nitric oxide levels | Purchase your starter kit at a 15% discount | Use the promo code: AGINGWELL15 | https://berkeleylife.pxf.io/c/6475525/3226696/31118 Oxford Healthspan | Primeadine®, a plant-derived spermidine supplement | 10% off code: AGINGWELL | https://www.oxfordhealthspan.com/AGINGWELL KneeMo® | A smart device programmed to reduce your knee pain and keep you moving. | Click the following link and use the discount code AGINGWELL15 for 15% off: https://thekneemo.com/ref/agingwell Prolon | The Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) is a revolutionary five-day nutrition program scientifically formulated to mimic the effects of a prolonged water fast while still allowing nourishment - supporting the benefits of fasting without the challenges and risks that come from water-only fasts. | For the best available discount always use this link: https://prolonlife.com/theagingwellpodcast Thrive25 | Your personal longevity advisor | https://www.thrive25.com/early-access?via=william-jeffrey Fusionary Formulas | Combining Ayurvedic wisdom with Western science for optimal health support. | 15% off Code: AGINGWELL | https://fusionaryformulas.com?sca_ref=9678325.IHg5xYhdOzzke8Zr Dr Lewis Nutrition | Fight neurodegeneration and cognitive decline with Daily Brain Care by Dr Lewis Nutrition—a proven daily formula designed to protect and restore brain function. | 10% off code: AGINGWELL or use the link: https://drlewisnutrition.com/AGINGWELL

  7. Oct 29

    Medicare and Aging Well: Making Better Decisions for the Years Ahead | Ryan George | Ep. 470

    Aging well isn't only about staying healthy enough to enjoy retirement. It's also about navigating the systems that can have a profound impact on our financial security, independence, and peace of mind. For millions of Americans, Medicare is one of the most important—and confusing—transitions associated with turning 65. The consequences of making the wrong decision can extend well beyond paperwork, potentially affecting healthcare costs and coverage for years to come. And for someone navigating the process alone after the loss of a spouse, the decisions can feel particularly overwhelming. In this episode of The Aging Well Podcast, Dr. Jeff Armstrong talks with Ryan George, founder of Part ABC and creator of the Medicare Daddy YouTube channel. Ryan's philosophy is simple: Medicare should be taught, not sold. He helps people understand the system in plain language, including some of the costly mistakes that are easy to make when Medicare intersects with employer coverage, COBRA, HSAs, and retirement. The conversation explores why Medicare belongs in a broader conversation about aging well, the emotional and social dimensions of healthcare decisions, and what people approaching Medicare eligibility should understand before they have to make important choices under pressure. Learn more at https://www.needpartabc.com/ Please, support The Aging Well Podcast by hitting the ‘like’ button, subscribing/following the podcast, sharing with a friend, and…. Tip Jar! All donations support this podcast to keep it going. https://paypal.me/theagingwellpodcast BUY the products you need to… age well from our trusted affiliates and support the mission of The Aging Well Podcast. (We receive commission on these purchases. Thank you.) The Aging Well Podcast merchandise | Show how you are aging well | Use the promo code AGING WELL for free shipping on orders over $75 | https://theagingwellpodcast-shop.fourthwall.com/promo/AGINGWELL Auro Wellness | Glutaryl—Antioxidant spray that delivers high doses of glutathione (“Master Antioxidant”) and the new Copper Tripeptide (GHK-Cu) | 10% off Code: AGINGWELL at https://aurowellness.com/agingwellpodcast Nutritional Biochemical Inc. (NBI) | Trusted supplement. NBI stands 100% behind the quality of their formulations and the science on which they’re based. | Click the following link and use the discount code AGINGWELL for 10% off: https://shop.nbihealth.com/agingwell Jigsaw Health | Trusted supplements. “It’s fun to feel good.” | Click the following link and use the discount code AGINGWELL for 10% off: https://bit.ly/4ks3Y0O Berkeley Life | Optimize nitric oxide levels | Purchase your starter kit at a 15% discount | Use the promo code: AGINGWELL15 | https://berkeleylife.pxf.io/c/6475525/3226696/31118 Oxford Healthspan | Primeadine®, a plant-derived spermidine supplement | 10% off code: AGINGWELL | https://www.oxfordhealthspan.com/AGINGWELL KneeMo® | A smart device programmed to reduce your knee pain and keep you moving. | Click the following link and use the discount code AGINGWELL15 for 15% off: https://thekneemo.com/ref/agingwell Prolon | The Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) is a revolutionary five-day nutrition program scientifically formulated to mimic the effects of a prolonged water fast while still allowing nourishment - supporting the benefits of fasting without the challenges and risks that come from water-only fasts. | For the best available discount always use this link: https://prolonlife.com/theagingwellpodcast Fusionary Formulas | Combining Ayurvedic wisdom with Western science for optimal health support. | 15% off Code: AGINGWELL | https://fusionaryformulas.com?sca_ref=9678325.IHg5xYhdOzzke8Zr Dr Lewis Nutrition | Fight neurodegeneration and cognitive decline with Daily Brain Care by Dr Lewis Nutrition—a proven daily formula designed to protect and restore brain function. | 10% off code: AGINGWELL or use the link: https://drlewisnutrition.com/AGINGWELL

  8. Oct 27

    The Art of Aging Well: Thai Wellness, Self-Care, and the Power of Presence | Nuttha Goutier | Ep. 469

    What if aging well has less to do with adding more to our lives and more to do with returning to the simple practices that help us feel present, connected, and cared for? Nuttha Goutier, founder of Sabai Thai Spa, has spent nearly two decades bringing traditional Thai wellness practices to Canada. Drawing on the lessons of her upbringing in rural Thailand, Nuttha offers a perspective on wellness rooted not in complicated routines, but in simple rituals of self-care, presence, touch, rest, and human connection. In this episode of The Aging Well Podcast, we explore what Western culture might learn from traditional Thai approaches to well-being and how small, intentional practices can help us manage stress, reconnect with ourselves and others, and cultivate greater balance as we age. Learn more at https://sabaithai.com/ Please, support The Aging Well Podcast by hitting the ‘like’ button, subscribing/following the podcast, sharing with a friend, and…. Tip Jar! All donations support this podcast to keep it going. https://paypal.me/theagingwellpodcast BUY the products you need to… age well from our trusted affiliates and support the mission of The Aging Well Podcast. (We receive commission on these purchases. Thank you.) The Aging Well Podcast merchandise | Show how you are aging well | Use the promo code AGING WELL for free shipping on orders over $75 | https://theagingwellpodcast-shop.fourthwall.com/promo/AGINGWELL Auro Wellness | Glutaryl—Antioxidant spray that delivers high doses of glutathione (“Master Antioxidant”) and the new Copper Tripeptide (GHK-Cu) | 10% off Code: AGINGWELL at https://aurowellness.com/agingwellpodcast Nutritional Biochemical Inc. (NBI) | Trusted supplement. NBI stands 100% behind the quality of their formulations and the science on which they’re based. | Click the following link and use the discount code AGINGWELL for 10% off: https://shop.nbihealth.com/agingwell Jigsaw Health | Trusted supplements. “It’s fun to feel good.” | Click the following link and use the discount code AGINGWELL for 10% off: https://bit.ly/4ks3Y0O Berkeley Life | Optimize nitric oxide levels | Purchase your starter kit at a 15% discount | Use the promo code: AGINGWELL15 | https://berkeleylife.pxf.io/c/6475525/3226696/31118 Oxford Healthspan | Primeadine®, a plant-derived spermidine supplement | 10% off code: AGINGWELL | https://www.oxfordhealthspan.com/AGINGWELL KneeMo® | A smart device programmed to reduce your knee pain and keep you moving. | Click the following link and use the discount code AGINGWELL15 for 15% off: https://thekneemo.com/ref/agingwell Prolon | The Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) is a revolutionary five-day nutrition program scientifically formulated to mimic the effects of a prolonged water fast while still allowing nourishment - supporting the benefits of fasting without the challenges and risks that come from water-only fasts. | For the best available discount always use this link: https://prolonlife.com/theagingwellpodcast L-Nutra Health | The medical division of L-Nutra, focused on helping people manage and potentially reverse chronic health conditions, like type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, insulin resistance, and obesity, using personalized, lifestyle-based programs grounded in evidence, not prescriptions. | Use this link: https://l-nutrahealth.com/theagingwellpodcast Thrive25 | Your personal longevity advisor | https://www.thrive25.com/early-access?via=william-jeffrey Fusionary Formulas | Combining Ayurvedic wisdom with Western science for optimal health support. | 15% off Code: AGINGWELL | https://fusionaryformulas.com?sca_ref=9678325.IHg5xYhdOzzke8Zr Dr Lewis Nutrition | Fight neurodegeneration and cognitive decline with Daily Brain Care by Dr Lewis Nutrition—a proven daily formula designed to protect and restore brain function. | 10% off code: AGINGWELL or use the link: https://drlewisnutrition.com/AGINGWELL

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The Aging Well Podcast explores what it truly means to live well. Hosted by Dr. W. Jeffrey Armstrong, a PhD exercise physiologist, the show goes beyond traditional conversations about longevity to explore the science and philosophy of human flourishing. Through engaging conversations with experts, we examine the Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Social dimensions of well-being. Whether discussing exercise, nutrition, sleep, Purpose, resilience, relationships, or healthy aging, every episode is guided by one question: How do we become our best today—and better tomorrow?

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  • Creator
    Jeff Armstrong
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    489
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jeff Armstrong
  • Show Website
    The Aging Well Podcast

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