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Too Young to Be That Old: Janet McConnell on Strength Training at 70

11.03.2026 by Eager to be Healthy // Leave a Comment

Janet McConnell, strength trainer and author of Elements of Aging Well

Janet McConnell’s doctor already had the prescriptions written. Blood pressure. Cholesterol. Triglycerides. She was 46. She asked for six months to turn it around. He said fine. He’d hang on to the slips. What she did with those six months was strength training. He never handed them over. Six months of 5 a.m. workouts later, […]

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Your Labs Are Normal. So Why Are You Running on Empty?

10.27.2026 by Eager to be Healthy // 1 Comment

Dr. Quinto Pauletti, DC (Doc Q)

Most of Doc Q’s patients aren’t sick. They’re exhausted. The labs come back normal, the doctor shrugs, and they still feel like a phone stuck at 3 percent. Doc Q and I dug into burnout recovery: why sleep and stress come first, how adrenaline and cortisol actually work, and the blood sugar number I’ve had […]

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Looking Fine Isn’t the Same as Being Healed: 3 New TBI Studies Worth Knowing

10.23.2026 by Evie Nova Wells // Leave a Comment

Recovery from a brain injury is rarely a solo project. Michael Scott Eger knows that firsthand. He was 29 when a crash left him with a traumatic brain injury. Years later, his podcast, Eager to Be Healthy, still comes back to the same idea. Healing involves more people, and more of the body, than most […]

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It’s Hard Being Grown-Ups All the Time, with Lexi Reid

10.20.2026 by Evie Nova Wells // Leave a Comment

Lexi Reid, guest on Eager to Be Healthy: It's Hard Being Grown-Ups All the Time

By Evie Nova Wells Somewhere between the deadlines, the dishes, and the dog’s third walk of the day, a lot of us quietly stop playing. Lexi Reid felt it happen during the pandemic, when even painting, the thing she loved most, started to feel like one more task on the list. What brought her back […]

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Hospice Said Goodbye. Mom Had Other Plans. Mark Steven Porro on Caring for Mom

10.16.2026 by Eager to be Healthy // Leave a Comment

Mark Steven Porro, author of A Cup of Tea on the Commode

Hospice told the family to say goodbye. Mom had other plans. Right after her 89th birthday, Mark Steven Porro’s mother decided she was done. No disease. No pain. She just shut down. Her doctor called hospice, a priest gave last rites, and six grown kids flew home. Then she stayed three and a half more […]

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Rebecca Lazzelle: A Thousand Faints and the Word She Won’t Use

10.13.2026 by Eager to be Healthy // Leave a Comment

Rebecca Lazzelle, A Thousand Faints and the Word She Won't Use, Eager to Be Healthy

Podcast: Eager to Be Healthy Guest: Rebecca Lazzelle, author, retreat host and energy healing practitioner Host: Michael Scott Eger Episode length: about 40 minutes Watch: Rebecca Lazzelle on YouTube Listen: Rebecca Lazzelle on Eager to Be Healthy Watch on YouTube and subscribe to Eager to Be Healthy. Rather listen? The audio player is right below. […]

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JR Rennie: When the Paycheck Stopped and the Calling Started

09.26.2026 by Eager to be Healthy // Leave a Comment

Podcast: Eager to Be Healthy Guest: John “JR” Rennie, founder of BrushFires Ministry, Hayden, Idaho Host: Michael Scott Eger Episode length: about 43 minutes Watch or listen: JR Rennie on Eager to Be Healthy A note from Evie If you’ve been reading Michael for a while, you may have guessed he’s a Christian. It comes […]

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Elizabeth Kipp: Pain Is a Signal, Not a Life Sentence

09.24.2026 by Eager to be Healthy // 2 Comments

Podcast: Eager to Be Healthy Guest: Elizabeth Kipp, stress management and historical trauma specialist, certified addiction recovery coach, Ancestral Clearing® practitioner, author of The Way Through Chronic Pain Host: Michael Scott Eger Episode length: about 52 minutes Watch or listen: Elizabeth Kipp on Eager to Be Healthy Elizabeth Kipp lived with chronic pain for more […]

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One Degree, Not a Mountain: Ana Melikian on Changes That Actually Stick

09.21.2026 by Eager to be Healthy // Leave a Comment

The date on this one is fibbing. We published it June 18, 2026. Ana and I actually sat down to talk back around 2015, when her MINDSET ZONE podcast was fresh out of the oven and climbing the iTunes charts. A good conversation doesn’t spoil. This one aged like a Portuguese stew, the kind you […]

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Mike Dyson: A Silent Heart Attack, Faith, and a Gym Empire

09.09.2026 by Eager to be Healthy // 1 Comment

Looking healthy is not the same as being well. I keep landing on that line, and Mike Dyson is the reason it stuck this time. He is a former Marine, an Anytime Fitness franchise owner in Pensacola, resting heart rate in the mid-fifties — the picture of fitness. Then you hear about the 80% blockage […]

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