Health · Beauty · Longevity

Live well
Stay optimistic
Age gracefully

Sharing practices, books, and reflections on healthy living. May we care for ourselves, stay curious, and embrace life at every age.

By Rong.

Rong Chen

01 Health

Build sustainable habits.

Build the body you want to live in for decades: nutrition, sleep, strength, cooking, prevention.

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02 Beauty

Age with confidence.

Beauty doesn’t disappear with age. It evolves: skin, hair, style, posture, self-care.

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03 Longevity

Prioritize healthspan.

More years matter most when they are healthy years: mobility, cognition, independence, aging science.

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Watch & Learn · YouTube @LifeFoundationRC

Eat well, sleep well, feel well, live well

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RC Reflections · Thoughts to Share

RC Reflections · Thoughts to Share

Experiences, questions, and lessons from everyday life
Personal reflections, shared in a spirit of mutual encouragement

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Rong’s Notebook

Things I’m thinking about…

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One Page · 001

What is happiness?

Someone confined to a bed may envy the person who can walk.
Someone with $100,000 may envy the person with $1 million.
But as I approach fifty, I find myself envying something different:
time.

From 《逐页悟此生》 — Life, One Page at a Time

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Rong Chen

Meet Rong

I’m not trying to stop aging.
I’m trying to learn how to age well.

After a career in corporate finance and nearly twenty years running a Chinese restaurant in America, I became a student of health. Approaching fifty, I started asking how to eat, how to move, how to protect my mind—and what kind of one-hundred-year-old I want to be. Those questions became notebooks, and the notebooks became books.

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Books by Rong

Deeper explorations of the same worldview.

健康由我 Health By Me — book cover

Published · 2025

《健康由我》 Health By Me

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Mastering Time with Rhythm — book cover

Published · 2026

Mastering Time with Rhythm

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逐页悟此生

In progress

《逐页悟此生》

Life, One Page at a Time

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Learn with Rong

One Real Moment → One Real Thought → Three English Voices

Adults don’t lack life experience—they often lack the language for the life they already have. Self-talk. Conversation. Journal.

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Mike & May · 话场英语

Real English for real life.

Conversational American English through the situations adults actually meet—doctors, mechanics, banks, neighbors. Don’t memorize English. Live it.

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