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work//life primarily focuses on evidence-based strategies to improve healthspan, the length of time in which good health and well-being are enjoyed. In one conception, a “full life” is one lived with sufficient capacity to pursue activities that bring joy, satisfaction, and meaning.
Doubtless we are each already several moves into a chess match with Death. No matter our cunning, we always fall behind. The vagaries of life hound us; pieces are captured one after another. We may then ask ourselves how this ineluctable defeat can be reached gradually and with peace. We may aspire for a demise envisioned by Michel de Montaigne,
When we are led by Nature’s hand down a gentle and virtually imperceptible slope, bit by bit, one step at a time, she rolls us into this wretched state and makes us familiar with it.
For those more moved by scripture, we may instead aspire to reach a personal Song of Simeon:
nunc dimittis servum tuum Domine secundum verbum tuum in pace
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word
Luke 2:29
Descending that gentle slope requires confronting common sources of morbidity (diminished quality of life) and mortality (diminished length of life), among them atherosclerotic disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, and chronic lung, liver, and kidney disease.
The same behaviors that greatly inform risk for such conditions— our patterns of consumption, movement, and rest— work double duty. They at once forestall an early death and build vital capacity for an existence lived fully.
