Why Health Means Something Different to Everyone Spend five minutes in any health forum and you’ll see people use the word health to mean wildly different things. For some, it’s about looking good in their clothing. For others, it’s a deeper, more metaphysical aspiration — feeling well, feeling capable, feeling whole. As a conservative healthcare…
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Racing Your Own Race: Filtering the Noise
There are moments in all of our athletic journeys where the advice and sales pitches become more of a distraction than a help. Between the endless sea of fitness influencers, data-driven training metrics, and well-meaning advice from the “experts,” it’s easy to forget a fundamental truth: you are racing your own race. As an older…
Your Recovery: The Link Between Stress, Sleep, and Performance
You are training hard. You’re eating “clean.” You’re doing everything you’ve been told should work, yet you feel tired, sore all the time, maybe even weaker than you were a few months ago. That’s not a motivation problem. It’s a recovery problem. Most people think recovery just means taking a rest day or drinking a…
Commitment to Workouts: More Than Just Time
Whether you are a long term athlete or someone just starting into the lifestyle, a commitment to your workouts is an obvious good first step. Finding an activity that challenges (dares?) us to come back for more, all the while giving us the benefits we are looking for (looking and feeling good), is the start…
Vaccines and Vaccination Revisited
Given all the lively press that vaccines and vaccination have been generating lately, I thought another visit to the topic was in order to see what has changed. My stance on the topic has always been (at least since med school) one of healthy skepticism. There is a ton of varying viewpoints and evidence to…





