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Necessity and Invention and HBO

This little tale goes back a few centuries. In the process I will probably forget to mention some of the most important figures of this time-people whose discoveries…

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True Fitness and Personal Bias For My Friends Over 40 Part 2

Ok we visited the dream world and the real world in Part 1. Now let’s get to some specifics. If you are middle aged and American, or at…

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True Fitness and Personal Bias for My Friends Over 40 Part 1

Well my friend it’s time to visit the fitness question again.   If you are familiar with my blogs in the past I have weighed in on the “best”…

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Poop Transplants for Weight Loss

I kid you not, this is a thing! At least in the minds of some. Several years back I wrote a joking blog post entitled something like “I…

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Aerobic versus Intervals – The Best kind of Exercise Revisited

For the past decade I have intermittently written about the effects of exercise on health and body composition (primarily weight loss). My own descent and resurrection from Obesity…

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A brief blog about my blog!

The word press blog has become very popular and I have a lot of regular fans and of course some regular detractors.  This is the Yin and Yang…

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Ninety Year old Joints- JRA and telomere length

Awhile back I sustained an injury that made me feel like I was 90. In spite of all the training supplements and coaching I have done and given…

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Zombies Cowards and Fools – Doctors and the News Media

I have to tell you, I am appalled at the recent issues with the NCI study and its supposed link to fish oil and advanced prostate cancer. I…

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Fish Oil and Prostate Cancer (Part 2)

 Continuation of: Fish Oil and Prostate Cancer Part 1 ——————————————— In actuality the hormonal changes in men are not nearly as universal as they are in women. Some men…

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Fish Oil and Prostate Cancer (Part 1)

It is often suggested that Prostate cancer is the male equivalent of Breast cancer. There are some striking similarities. Both are hormonally driven and both occur with increasing frequency…

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Hard as Nails versus Tough as Nails – more than a name!

I had an interesting discussion with a friend of mine the other day about character, specifically strength of character. The phrase “Hard as nails” came up over and…

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Does being a fitness fanatic make you live longer?

Dr. Dave on the research linking extreme exercise to longevity. Where the J-curve bends and where dedicated lifters and runners get the dose wrong.

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