Fit Geek Wellness Concierge

08/27/2025

Farmers Market VENDORS WANTED!
Join Us at the Heritage Palms Farmers Market!
Set up is FREE to this season's vendors. We are capping participation at five vendors per event. Our private community consists of 3200 members and 1672 households.

📆When: Every other Friday, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (October 10 –April 24)

📌Where: Activity Center Parking Lot, next to the chipping area

🍋Hosted by: Lisa Schneck

If you’re a vendor interested in joining us for one or more dates this season, please complete our quick sign-up form here:
👉 https://forms.gle/ZaS9cdyZwEnbgYzy5

08/26/2025

A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet has confirmed that adults continue to generate new neurons in the hippocampus, the brain’s memory and learning hub. Remarkably, neurogenesis was observed across a wide age range, even in individuals up to 78 years old. This discovery challenges long-held beliefs that brain cell growth ceases in adulthood and instead highlights the brain’s lifelong plasticity. The finding has profound implications for developing treatments for memory decline, mood disorders, and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s. By proving that the brain can renew itself, researchers have unlocked new hope for therapies that could enhance cognition and resilience at any age.

08/26/2025

Keep moving!! That's the secret.

At 92, scientists are studying Emma Mazzenga’s muscles, nerves and even her mitochondria to better understand how she’s able to keep running into her 90s.

An international case study of Mazzenga’s physical fitness is part of a broader, years-long effort by researchers in Italy to better understand how muscles change as we age. https://wapo.st/4n3OqSA

08/24/2025

Amen!

08/24/2025

Hurricane = Great surf. I'll be napping under the canopy.

08/19/2025

08/16/2025

08/10/2025

Exercise Can Help Fight Breast Cancer, Experiments Show : ScienceAlert https://share.google/PDuMeVI9BMDLEgE7h

08/09/2025

So cool ... and I hear ants do taste sweet 🤔

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters – and scientists just figured out why.

In a new study published in Science, researchers found that the ant-eating lifestyle – long snouts, sticky tongues, digging claws – has evolved at least 12 separate times among mammals since the dinosaurs went extinct.

That means creatures like anteaters, aardvarks, and pangolins didn’t descend from one ant-eating ancestor; they each evolved independently, drawn again and again to the same specialized body plan.

Why? Because ants and termites are everywhere – and they dominate. In some ecosystems, they outweigh all mammals, birds, amphibians, and insects combined. Globally, termites alone outweigh all wild mammals by a factor of 10.

This pattern is a striking example of convergent evolution, where unrelated species develop the same traits to solve the same problem. Evolution keeps reinventing the anteater because it’s such an effective design.

The only mammal group that backed out of this lifestyle? A small rodent-like species in Africa that gave up ants for seeds and fruit… over 13 million years ago.

As long as ants rule the planet, it seems evolution will keep building mammals designed to eat them.

Learn more:
Buehler, Jake. “‘Things Keep Evolving into Anteaters.’ Odd Animals Arose at Least 12 Separate Times.” Science, 25 July 2025