Health & Fitness

Huberman: Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal, HRV and vagus

One of the mail goals of my practice is to improve patients’ autonomic balance and increase vagal activity.  I firmly believe if we can encourage...

Rita Redberg and Risks of Statins. Time to Curb Your Enthusiasm

I admire Dr. Redberg very much.  She speaks truth to the “powers that be” pushing medications and imaging technologies and scantily researched medical interventions.  (If...

Wine: Healthy for you or not?

Keeping in mind that there is no minimal recommended daily dose of alcohol, where the safest risk/benefit calculation is to not drink at all, people...

The Case For Saunas! Role of Heat shock proteins in cardiac and neuroprotection

As a sort of periodic public service announcement I like to plug saunas.  We all know exercise is good for us, but part of the...

Mediterranean Diet: No Nonsense and Healthy

This article lays out the basics of the Mediterranean Diet.  I like it because it’s a middle ground diet with lots of healthy elements and...

Longevity Science: Potential Drugs

Use prevention for long life. Exercise, acupuncture, sauna This article from Wired magazine takes a look at the recent research on drugs aimed at aging. ...

The extended autonomic system, dyshomeostasis, and COVID-19

This article is hypothesizing that a preexisting dsynautonomia exists in many of the groups more susceptible to severe covid. I’m interested in almost all things...

A BMJ Author’s Journey to Recovery from Long Covid

This author, a professor of tropical medicine,  researcher discusses his experience with long covid, and how he used unorthodox physical therapy approaches to overcome his...

Does Running Really Harm Your Knees?

Top view of fitness woman running on pavement “Does Running Really Wreck Your Knees?” Contrary to popular opinion, distance running rarely causes knee problems in...

Icing of little use for sore muscles

It’s about time!  This discussion has been going on for decades.  Finally someone has done some animal studies. Ice for Sore Muscles? Think Again. Icing...