Is there a difference between a hoarder and someone that is a collector? For the longest time, I thought they were interchangeable, I was wrong according to this week's episode. Years ago, I had a close friend that every weekend would scour garage sales, yard sales, and flea markets for something he thought he eventually would need, regardless of already having the similar item at home and this created quite a storage problem as you can well imagine.

The stark difference of a hoarder and a collector is that a hoarder accumulates an excessive of items that crowds himself out of his own home with total disorganization usually with no value to the stuff whatsoever, where a collector accumulates them in an organized fashion, even categorized, and

the latter definition is where my close friend fell into, he was not a hoarder but a collector. Was he a border line hoarder? Not sure, your guess is good as mine, I am not a psychologist.

Take a hike! This is an idiom expressing rudely for someone to go away or leave. If you ask me if anyone has told me to take a hike, I will have to plea the fifth amendment. However, I want to discuss the expression in the context of taking a hike and its wonderful physical and mental health benefits.

In this week's episode, my guest, an avid hiker, and professor relates his personal odyssey of hiking the John Muir Trail, starting from Yosemite to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous 48 states. He speaks of traversing this famous trail of 211 miles in 28 days, including his wild animal encounters, which inspired him to author the bestselling book, The Trail.

There is something incredibly special to hiking in nature, to be an integral part of the living world of outdoors, and my guest even admitted that there was a definite spiritual component to his adventure.

Have you heard of the Pareto principle? The Pareto principle also is understood as the 80/20 rule of which is an occurrence that asserts that approximately 80% of outcomes come from 20% of causes. In other words, a slight percentage of causes have a larger effect. This principle is essential to understand because it can assist you to recognize priorities. Incidentally, it was the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto who formulated the principle in the 19th century. However, I never thought of using this principle in correlation with our personal diet.

In this week's episode, a food connoisseur revealed that she enjoys eating 20 percent of foods that may not go well in a person's diet, but 80 percent of her diet is concentrated in healthy foods. Nonetheless, she only eats when she is hungry and always commensurate to her hunger. Her assertion is that most people eat when they think they must, regardless of being hungry, and often the case is not so healthy food. Diets and counting points for the purpose of losing weight do not work, it is not sustainable, she said. Therefore, she began her blog, namely, "Gourmet Done Skinny."

Is it possible to live out your years independently and qualitatively in your own home? In this week's

segment of the show, an expert on longevity, attorney and nationally recognized author says yes.

He tells of his dad who was a World War II veteran who maintained a positive disposition, healthy diet and walked at least three mile daily, and who passed away in his home at the age of 102.

So, what is the secret that is not a secret?

​As far as I can remember, my mother was a staunch believer of using natural remedies to keep the family healthy. However, she never discounted the importance of traditional medicine when necessary.

In this week’s episode my guest a well-known international nutritionist, has been on the Doctor Oz show several times and has stood before congress to advocate the education of nutraceuticals. And I enjoyed what she had to say on my show about how she overcame epilepsy by means of natural medicine had me reminiscing of mom.

Once someone got sick with the flu, she would immediately boil water with a mix of cinnamon canella tea. Of course, as a kid, I had no idea of the healing properties of canella tea, except, it made the home smell inviting and tasted delicious and it felt that you were really being catered by mom.