Playbooks
Each Playbook has a subset of curated resources to help identify and plan your simple steps to AgeSmart Living.
Read the posts in each Playbook: Identify your Quick Start possibilities.
Explore Expert Resource Links: Get the detail direct from the experts.
Create your personalized Playbook:
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Print and tailor Quick Reference Worksheets by topic.
Use our Generic Worksheet for any habit goal combination.
Your Playbook
Body, brain and gut health. What & when we eat matters.
Nutrition
Muscles & movement - more than just strength & looks.
Movement
Reduce the bad stress. Take advantage of good stressors.
Stress
Purpose, pets, family, friends or strangers on a bus. Connection matters.
Social - Purpose
About the ASL Playbooks
Playbook Resources
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Quick Reference Worksheets you can personalize for building new habits.
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Curated blog posts profiling the essential basics for each topic.
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Curated links to more context and detail from our trusted expert resources.
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Habit Recommendations
We filter all the expert resources we've read and listened to, so you don't have to spend the time sorting it all out! Our approach to Playbook resources:
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Pick one leading trusted expert to anchor our key take-aways and quick reference worksheets.
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Augment with complementary expert insights.
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When best practices are still debated by trusted experts, pick a few leading expert sources to highlight these these different opinions.
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Apply the science of Tiny Habits to inform our work sheets and overall approach to changing patterns of living.
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How We Choose Resource Links
We focus on globally recognized, leading experts who demonstrate...
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a commitment to the evidence.
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a willingness to seriously consider different points of view and to change their position when compelling new evidence emerges.
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an ability to make complex science both understandable and actionable.
​​Making Sense of Disagreements
We find most differences between reputable experts are due to one or more of the following...
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The basics are agreed upon. The arguments are around the refinements for that last 10-20% optimization potential. That optimization is typically most relevant for needs specific to a particular condition and/or people aspiring to elite performance!
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An over simplification in messaging leads to what appears to be a contradiction, and may intentionally or unintentionally mislead the reader/listener. A dive into the details often shows there is no contradiction.
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There are promising signals and/or positive outcomes in small studies or a growing body of anecdata but the research is limited.
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Lack of gold standard Random Control Trials (RCTs) in Humans; Waiting for more evidence to establish generalizability of the protocol in the population at large (or to clarify which sub-populations will benefit and/or could be harmed.)
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Good science involves healthy debate and inevitably different conclusions from much of the study observations. We do our best to put context around these differences so you are aware of reasons reputable expert opinions sometimes differ so you can make your own decision about what makes most sense to you.
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We limit these to highlights for differences between resources we perceive to be reputable, and trustworthy by our standards. We acknowledge many will also have a different perspective on which information sources are reputable and trustworthy.