Longevity? WTF is That? It means you’re here for a good time and a long time!
Davinia tells us in FUTUREPROOF that true longevity is a ‘long, healthy life where we’re full of energy, dynamism and enjoying ourselves right up to the end’. We’re here to put her WillPowders spin on longevity to get you high on life - for as long as possible!
What longevity IS about:
- Extending healthspan - your number of years smashing life
- Extending vitality - to keep doing the things we love as we age
What longevity IS NOT about:
Trying to live forever - Dee’s good, but she’s not God!
How do I future proof? Tell me, quick!
- Lower inflammation: Get Spice(y) and cut veg oil and sugar
- Build muscle and bone strength: Amp Protein and Collagen, start resistance training yesterday and get busy with creatine
- Eat well: Keto and as close to nature as poss, plenty amino acids from animal protein, including red meat
- Sort mental energy: Hydrate, stash Nootropic Stacks, feed happy hormones
- Sort stress: cold water showers, Wim Hof Method and Calm
- Get moving: walk the verse, run the chorus, dance
Grab yourself a copy of FUTUREPROOF and read it until it’s well-thumbed!
Life me long time, WillPowders!
As you know, Davinia’s a can-do gal! She’s done the research for our future and brings the tribe, old guard and newbies alike, no-nonsense, practical ways to live it up now so we can live it up later.
In true Dee style, she makes clear longevity isn’t to be left to chance. Neither is longevity about being able to just claim a long lifespan - dying old, but having suffered 23 years of ill health sucks.
The WillPowders Way supports longevity. It goes hand in hand with Dee’s expertise in FUTUREPROOF. WillPowders products help us take steps to extend healthspan. Davinia also makes clear longevity is achievable in inexpensive, quick ways, if we sidestep the pitfalls. Yes - that includes looking at the effects of you, Big Food! She asks no one to live the *coughs sterile life of Brian Johnson. She knows you’ve to leave the house to pick the kids up and shop for yet another family dinner!
Once we’re in the swing, we can keep stacking the habits - part of the WillPowders Way. Prep the Big Girl Pants: we get to make our own decisions about how to make old age kick ass for ourselves. While Dee might want to ski with the grandkids, she leaves it up to us the mischief we might choose as we age. Cheers to that! Life Me Long Time!
On The WillPowders Way? You’re already making an impact - go you!
The WillPowders Way is the perfect foundation for a future proofed you! Your longevity is built into all of our products.
We keep the focus on habit stacking so you don’t feel overwhelmed. Jump on the bandwagon where best suits you and then pick up those other future proofers when you can:
Lowering inflammation
Widely renowned as the cause of all disease, at WillPowders we help you reduce inflammatory risks where you can:
- No inflammatory nasties, here! All our products shun sugar (that flame igniting pest) and questionable chemicals (doing who knows what - even the manufacturers of chemicals themselves aren’t sure).
- We help you tackle inflammation head on with Spice. Turns out the alchemy of turmeric, curcumin and pepperine are exemplary inflammation dampeners.
- It’s an all star cast of amino acids, but when it comes to gut inflammation, its unique proportion of glycine (i.e. it teems with it) make our award-winning Bovine Collagen a winner for gut inflammation.
- We educate around the causes of inflammation
- Know the ingredients to avoid, like veg oils and sugars with slippery names
Building muscle and bone strength
Muscles don’t grow themselves! Bone won’t be strong without moving muscles.
- Join a gym. Use the weights
- Think about independence in older age and the movement and strength that requires. Lifting golf clubs out of the back of your car is a three dimensional movement. Changing a light bulb requires balance and muscle strength.
- Whatever you want to be doing in age, make sure you’re fit for it now
- Stay fit for it in the years in between
- Ask your gym instructor for functional strength movements to practise. Do the practice. It’s not a list of movements just to give your fridge magnets something to hold!
Eating well
Plenty keto and careful carbs. Around these parts, we’re protein focussed.
On your WillPowders Way? You’ll know we shout :
- Protein repairs, replaces and replenishes!
- Keep the veg oils out of your system
- Eat close to nature
- Fat fuel
- Support insulin, especially if you’re over 40
- Rise and Shine to protect the liver, freeing it up to get on with hormone production
Improving mental energy
A glass of vintage Mummy O’Clock wine won’t help with mental energy. In fact, alcohol is a mental energy vampire.
- Swap the beer-wine-spirit trio for a trio that actually contains ingredients to support mood - WillPowders Kombucha
- Mental energy means you’re more likely to move, and so build strength, and to keep mobile. Can’t face the gym? Whack on some disco and swig a Brain Powder
- Grinding away at brain work like study or working for that promotion while perimenopause has stolen all your nouns? Try AH-HA for memory. Its lemon balm also helps with stress.
Reducing stress
Learning what stresses the human body beyond working with Amanda from Accounts is key to learning how you can work with cortisol for your benefit and how to calm your body when you need.
- Make L-Theanine your friend. We popped it in Calm
- Dose with 10-15g of collagen at bedtime, optimise by stirring it through chamomile tea. Opt for plastic free tea bags, if poss.
- When the stress hits, try a physiological sigh: Dee explains in FUTUREPROOF, ‘Breathe in quickly through your mouth or nose twice – the first one up to three quarters of your lung capacity, the second one up to full capacity, then breathe out slowly. And repeat.’
Mobility
Bodies love movement. Movement underpins the optimum functioning of vital systems like the digestive and musculoskeletal system.
- Dee advocates for walk the verse, run the chorus
- Can you squat? Practise it now and everyday
- Can you balance on one leg? If that’s easy, can you do it with your eyes closed?
- Skip as if your inner child depends on it (because your older self will depend on it)
Feeling high on life. Keeping high on life.
Aim for a realistic, nervous-system-loving attitude to life. Step away from berating yourself as if your personality is somehow flawed when you’re in a low mood. Consider there may be biological reasons for feeling the way you feel.
Stack habits - one by one, day but day, week by week. Let the weeks turn into years. Smashing it the WillPowders Way!
Further Reading
There's only one place to go for more: Davinia Taylor FUTUREPROOF
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