health

Bay seniors who balk at the idea of growing old gracefully now have an entire industry to support their denial. Anti-aging facilities, bearing medical credentials, are popping up like liver spots around the area. In San Francisco MD Longevity offers Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy for both men and women. If you want to shop around […]

Bay geezers who thought they’d heard everything when it comes to exercising should check out Vasper Fitness in the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale. This is one gym where you never break a sweat because you are lying on a cold compression pad, wearing a cooling helmet, with cold copper pedals at […]

Bay seniors have orders from their dermatologists – cover up. To minimize having your head sprayed with liquid nitrogen attacking precancerous skin damage, wear a hat. Your timing couldn’t be better as hats are back. Baseball caps are ubiquitous. There are all those nylon, UPF saturated ones from REI that look like you’re on your […]

Bay seniors who have heard Carrie Fisher’s hilarious tale of her father Eddie Fisher mistaking his microscopic new hearing aids for pills, can appreciate the sudden and dramatic interest in hearing loss. Helen Keller famously once said she would rather be blind than deaf. Hearing aids come in a spectrum of capabilities. You should know […]

Bay Area seniors who’ve tried those patches from snoring infomercials will hopefully be relieved to know this unique medical niche has gone legit. Check out the upscale Sereno in Crocker Galleria and the SF Snore Center on Post Street. Online you’ll find anti-snoring machines, pillows and mouthpieces but any ENT worth his diploma will not […]

Stubborn Bay Area seniors who insist on pushing the limits of their mortality might want to pick up a copy of “Living Longer for Dummies”. The contents are pretty self-evident – creativity, sex, herbs- but then again, it’s a book designed for blockheads. Still it’s worth it just for the wacky title. Starting at 55 […]