Exercise
Exercise is physical activity performed to improve health, fitness, and overall well-being. It encompasses a wide range of activities, from aerobic exercises like running and cycling to strength training and flexibility exercises like yoga. Regular exercise is essential for maintaining a healthy weight, reducing the risk of chronic diseases, and enhancing physical and mental health.
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In finding your exercise groove, you have lots of options. That includes aerobic exercise, interval training, or lifting weights. Which one is best to counter aging? Let’s dig into a recent high-level study and also learn something about how your genes age. Types of Exercise One of the things you have to do, if you…read more
Cardio or Weight Lifting To Lose or Maintain Weight?
You’ll hear and read all sorts of advice on whether you should lift heavy weights or do cardio to lose or keep off weight. In addition, the pendulum keeps swinging back and forth on this one. Back in the 80s and 90s it was aerobics and running. Then about a decade ago it was lifting…read more
What’s Best? Exercise in the Morning or Evening?
This is an age-old debate. Some people love beginning their day with exercise. Others can’t do that and get it done at night. Now a new study weighs in on this debate that concludes that for blood sugar control, one is better than the other. Let’s dig in. The Debate I’ve tried several times to…read more
Hit a Weight Loss Block? New Study May Explain Why
You’ve been diligent and focused at working hard to achieve that New Year’s resolution to lose weight. You’ve eaten well, exercised regularly, and you’ve even lost a few pounds and toned a bit in the process. But, suddenly, despite continued determination, you’ve hit a weight loss block, and the scale’s been stuck for a couple…read more
Why Do My Shoes Wear Out More Quickly on the Outside Heel?
On this page: Foot strike: pronation vs. supination How irritated back nerves can lead to supination How to treat foot supination I wear out shoes very quickly. In fact, I’ve worn down one pair of black dress shoes about 50% more on the heel on the outside, so I no longer wear them. Do you…read more My Top 7 Tips for Weight Lifting with Back and Neck Pain
I often get asked by back- and neck-pain patients how they should be working out at the gym or with a personal trainer. While there are no published and tested guidelines, what follows is what I have learned through years of trial and error as someone who has both issues and who likes working out.…read more Easy Lower Back and Knee Instability Tests You Can Do at Home
On this page: Knee instability tests Lower back instability tests What if I failed any of these tests? How do you know if you have a knee stability problem? You may have popping or cracking in your knee joint or may feel sudden shifts. For example, when performing cutting exercises, you may feel your knee…read more
Is Chronic Inflammation Causing Us to Age Faster?
A couple of weeks ago, I covered a study on aging that gave us a glimpse into one possible reason energy production in our cells tends to decrease as we get older. The answer was found in our mitochondria, the power supply of our cells. As a particular protein level declines, it may be leading…read more 
