The gig is up when it comes to exercise. The days of considering jogging or high repetition weight room exercise as the end all, be all, are thankfully over. These strategies, which have washed over from the calorie counting and…
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I was recently reading Modern Times: A History of the World from the Twenties to the Eighties by Paul Johnson. I have been recommended this book many times (the original – not the newer versions) and finally gave it a…
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For those of us that follow the health world, ranging from scientists and researchers to “influencers” and the often bizarre overlap, there has been a clear pattern emerging over the last five years. Researchers and scientists who start to get…
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We have been training and coaching many amazing women at Inspire Exercise Medicine and I wanted to highlight one who has fought her way through breast cancer treatment. Prior to her breast cancer diagnosis, she had a heart attack at…
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Whether it’s circling the parking lot for that closest spot, or replacing our historically physical methods to satisfy our inner need and desire to hunt and gather with the click of a mouse, or the millions of other shortcuts and…
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The number of times I have heard people blame the holidays for the wheels coming of is too numerous to count. The number of times I have heard the same people promise to exercise off the extra pounds they gain…
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In Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto thoroughly tackles the issues with teaching children they want and need “instant.” We are in a world of instant access. We get what we want when we want it with little effort or…
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I fell off the wagon again last month. I reverted back to one of the worst addictions for our health and that of others. I started reading and watching the news again, that nasty addiction that we are supposed to…
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After my newsletter last month discussing Eudaimonia, an insightful reader who always asks interesting questions and is also teaching a university class on “Economics and Life,” posed the question “Is happiness the primary goal of a good life?” Or i…
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Digging deeper and deeper into my clinical work as an oncologist and research in nutrition and exercise, the impact on our health of those factors totally unrelated to nutrition and exercise has become incredibly obvious to me. In fact, in…
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