If you’re looking for a way to become more active, practicing yoga is an excellent place to start. While scientific research is limited, early evidence seems to confirm that there are a variety of benefits that can improve your overall health—something that yogis have been telling us for years. Yoga can help relieve stress, improve mental health, encourage normal inflammatory responses, increase strength, reduce anxiety, improve your quality of life, boost immunity, and more.

You might seem concerned when grandpa falls asleep in the middle of the day, but it’s perfectly normal and just one of the many ways your body changes as you get older. Although young people try to get away with the least amount of sleep possible, grandparents know the value of taking a short nap or going to bed early. Once you get to grandpa’s age, your body will start to experience differences in how well you sleep and how long you spend in bed.

When we’re younger, we can’t wait to be older. But when we’re older, we wish we were younger. Part of the human condition, especially in western cultures, is wishing for what we don’t have and then being surprised that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be when we have it.

“These commercial products, most of them creams, sit for months or even years on drug store shelves, and are full of chemicals that you’ve never heard of.”