Lifelong Health: Achieving Optimum Well-Being at Any Age

Course Overview

Discover an essential reference guide to healthy living, packed with information and sound advice rooted in the latest scientific understanding of nutrition, physiology, and other related fields.

We all seek the secret to a long and healthy life, but how can we incorporate the principles of wellness into our busy schedules? In this course, Dr. Anthony Goodman offers 36 comprehensive lectures that provide expert advice on personal wellness choices, enabling you to nourish your body, strengthen your mind, and transform your lifestyle.

The course focuses on six fundamentals of personal well-being: aging, nutrition and whole foods, movement, mental health, specific health issues, and general health choices. With commonsense tips and inspirational stories, Dr. Goodman makes lifelong health practical and achievable for everyone, regardless of age.

Course Content

01: A Personal Path to Lifelong Health (31 min)

02: The Cellular Biology of Aging (33 min)

03: The Physiology of Aging (30 min)

04: Myths of Aging—Magical Times and Places (29 min)

05: Myths of Aging—Magical Substances (30 min)

06: Optimizing Health—Tests and Procedures (32 min)

07: Optimizing Health—Prevention (30 min)

08: How We Look—Surgery and Skin-Care (31 min)

09: The End of the Journey—Death and Dying (29 min)

10: Health Advances on the Horizon (30 min)

11: Nutrition—Choices for a Healthy Life (32 min)

12: The Physiology of Nutrition (30 min)

13: The Role of Vitamins (31 min)

14: The Role of Supplements (30 min)

15: Whole Foods for Optimum Health (31 min)

16: The Good Fats (29 min)

17: Sugar, Salt, Allergies, and Additives (32 min)

18: The Physiology of Weight Management (31 min)

19: Healthful Eating versus Fad Diets (29 min)

20: Movement and Recreation—a.k.a. Exercise (31 min)

21: The Physiology of Muscle (31 min)

22: Resistance Training and Weight Training (30 min)

23: Aerobic and Anaerobic Exercise (30 min)

24: Exercise in Dealing with Injury and Disease (31 min)

25: Joy in Movement—Sports and Exercise Options (30 min)

26: Martial Arts and Yoga (31 min)

27: Mental Health and Stress Reduction (30 min)

28: Brain Physiology, Alzheimer’s, and Dementia (30 min)

29: Maintaining Your Mental Edge (29 min)

30: Focus on Women’s Health (29 min)

31: Focus on Menopause (28 min)

32: Focus on Men’s Health (29 min)

33: Focus on Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (30 min)

34: Healthy Choices in Your Daily Life (29 min)

35: Becoming an Educated Patient (30 min)

36: Here’s to Your Healthy Life! (30 min)