I know it sounds like the latest in adventure exercise but plateauing is just our body’s built-in way of defining optimal function. We, of course, think we know better but Nature still asserts its dominance in our physiology. Or does it? “I’ll Take Plateauing for $200, Alex” I was introduced to the experience of plateauing…
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Why We Need Grown Up Play
There is something therapeutic when we create play after we have grown up. The source of healing for some present day wounds may lie in our past “Turn off that TV and get out of here. I don’t want to see you again until lunch.” Mom had an economical way with words when I was…
Improving Athletic Performance: An Inside Job?
If we believe the marketing surrounding athletic performance enhancing supplements, miracles occur all the time. Only a few dollars worth of their latest magic bullets are what is keeping you from spectacular athletic success! Or so the promotions say. The fact that products of questionable abilities continue to be marketed indicates that many of us…
Fitness After 50
Our physiology provides us with, ahem, interesting changes as we age, so much so that we may begin to despair of building fitness after 50. Whether you have stayed in shape for many years, returned to exercise after a layoff, or are just getting started, achieving fitness in our middling years is possible. As with…
A Vaccine Injury Adventure
Without venturing into the weeds of partisan views on the subject, vaccine injury is a real thing. Science has tabulated and studied the effects of vaccines on populations since the original development of inoculations for public health management. Vaccine injuries are not new or news. Our perceptions have just changed with current events. Public Health…