The Pounce Pot Post
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What's a Pounce Pot?!
Start here with an introduction to The Pounce Pot and our Five Essential Actions.
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Boost Your Brain
The research is urgent: use your brain or potentially lose it. If you can fill some of your days each week with activities that combine both manual dexterity and mental effort, that’s even better!
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Connect & Thrive
Friendship is good for your health. Literally. The role that your social, family, and community activities play in your overall healthspan cannot be overemphasized.
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Harness Hidden Powers
Exploring the hidden powers within our bodies and minds is the most intriguing of the Five Essential Actions. Who wouldn’t want to tap into their own, free super powers?
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Fuel Your Journey
What we “should” eat is such a complicated question; it’s no wonder people are confused. Doesn’t it seem like every few years, the science around nutrition shifts?
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Stay Active
Staying Active seems easy; after all, our bodies are designed to move, lift, pull, push, carry, and walk. So why is it so hard to “find the time” to exercise?
Can Writing Haiku Build Your Cognitive Reserve?
Boosting our brain while we can, in as many different ways as we can, such as through creative pursuits like writing haiku, can help delay the onset of dementia and potentially avoid it completely.
Outsmart Your Aging with Five Essential Actions:
Because you can actively influence each of these five categories (unlike our inherited DNA, which we have zero control over), these will be five areas for you to personally take responsibility for to the best of your abilities and within your means. Even improving in just one category can have a profoundly positive impact on your life.
Boost Your Brain: An Essential Action for Vibrant Longevity
The research is urgent: use your brain or potentially lose it. If you can fill some of your days each week with activities that combine both manual dexterity and mental effort, that’s even better!