Tag: reversing lifestyle diseases
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Podcast: 85 Years Young Vegan Ultramarathoner Paul Youd
Today I have Paul Youd on the podcast. He is an 85 year old endurance athlete from the UK. His knees bothered him so bad in his 50s that he stopped running and started biking. Then he became vegan after learning about the cruel conditions factory farm animals endure. One day chasing his grandson, he…
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Podcast: The Power of Mushrooms
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. When I was growing up, mushrooms were something that you got on a pizza when you progressed from straight pepperoni. They were usually from a jar or can and were nothing spectacular to look at. I believe that is where they got their bad wrap. The other place I…
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Podcast: Practice Choosing Hard Things
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. We have so many nutritional options and things to choose leading to confusion and indecision. There is more dietary advise advertised than just about anything else. Eating is glamorous, social, and is portrayed as having a large role in our overall happiness. Admitting that our food choices play a…
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Podcast: Enough Mitochondria
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. The health buzz word is often centered around getting enough of… Enough protein, sleep, calcium, or even sleep. In our material worlds we often have so much of that there has been the development of an industry for storage units. We have so much that we need off site…
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Podcast: Leadville Trail Marathon Recap
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. This episode is a recap of the Leadville Trail Marathon located at Leadville, Colorado. It is the highest elevation marathon in the United States at 10,000 ft climbing to Mosquito pass at 13.186 ft. Finish time: 8:41:46 Distance 26.4 miles covered 552 people completed the marathon. 43 Did not…
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Podcast: Dwight Eisenhower and Reversing Heart Disease. Are we doing a better job?
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. As they say, “You’ve come a long way baby”. Or not. Dwight Eisenhower died of a heart attack in 1969. War on heart disease was declared by then Vice President Nixon. It seems that the war on heart disease has been our longest war with many casualties. About 650,000…
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Podcast: Your Health, Your Decision
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. I’ve got a run streak going in January. Strength training on board. 50 mile race in February. Plant strong! How long should you take BP medication before your are cured? How about statins? Possible to stop you ask? Indeed. What are the risks vs. benefits. Did you give informed…
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Blogpost: Too Young to Die
I never thought it would be this soon. He wasn’t in very good health, but I didn’t think he would die. Those words are all too familiar. Too young, too soon. What could have been done. I became a physician to try to decrease the times those words would be spoken. Thirty four years later…