I know that polypharmacy is not a term we banter around everyday. Some readers may have never even heard of it before. A great many though have experienced the effects of polypharmacy. Doesn’t the term polypharmacy sound like a cute advertising campaign for a new chain of drug stores? The truth begins in your physician’s…
Now including myself in the ranks of what we politely call an aging athlete, I must admit my surprise at becoming so accepting of the once dreaded bonk. To simply run out of gas during exercise can be irritating. Having such a deficit reach the level of a full-on bonk where the body performance falls…
One of the joys of society opening again is talking face-to-face with real live people and the chance to be challenged by questions about why I write about Health and Fitness. I admit to being a little out of practice with some of the verbal judo of answering “why” questions, but I have missed this…
Scientific studies. There’s some excitement, right? There are lots of things we’d rather not do in life and reading scientific works full of dense jargon and loads of numbers ranks right up there with paying taxes and having root canals. There is hope. If you will hang with me for just a few minutes here,…
The COVID-19 pandemic really caught us unaware. We were rudely awakened from our complacency and insular attitudes. While pandemics are far from rare in human history, this one arrived just as social issues were bubbling up to the surface in world societies. What a strange trip it has been too. The pandemic has served as…