Top This Gary Player!
I have devoted a couple of posts to 77 year old golf legend Gary Player and his lifelong devotion to fitness. In response to my most recent post a reader sent the video clip below about 86 year old...
View ArticleMalaria Vaccine!
Today’s post is short. There was a report last week of a successful vaccine for malaria. The vaccine in its current form will present logistical challenges for wide spread use, but this is a start...
View ArticleOutside Online: Water Appetizer and When Statins Fail
Friends, here are two recent Outside Online posts on dietary strategies that can help you manage your weight and cholesterol. We have been on a “binge” of diet posts the last few weeks and will shift...
View ArticleWho’s Doping Now?
For most of us when I say doping you say Lance Armstrong, or Barry Bonds, or Roger Clemmons or Marion Jones. However, what about the rest of the world and our individual and collective drive for...
View ArticleSleep & Health
The usual article on sleep and health focuses on how we are all sleep deprived and the bad things this does to us. The story is pretty simple: chronic low grade sleep deprivation leads to systemic...
View ArticleStatins, 23andMe, and Personalized Medicine
What opinion leaders in biomedical research were thinking 20 or 30 years ago seems pretty remote from the news last month that the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association released...
View ArticleSupplements: To Take or Not to Take?
There are a large number of vitamins and other supplements that are purported to improve metabolic health, cardiovascular risk and perhaps have anti-aging effects. The idea is that is that these...
View ArticleIs Talent Genetic?
I have done a couple of recent posts on the idea that practice (the so-called 10,000 hour rule) is more important than talent in reaching elite levels of performance. The main conclusion from all of...
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