On Wednesdays, I try to write on a topic of exercise and health. If you exercise but still have high cholesterol or other risks for heart disease, you may be interested in a new study from my old medical school proving ground–Hartford Hospital. The deftly named STOMP trial looked carefully at the effects of statin […]
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This one is for you exercisers out there. You know me; I love to write about dogma-busters. I’ve got a good one for you tonight. For endurance exercisers, runners and cyclists alike, few myths have been more persistent. Imagine: We actually think taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) before exercise improves performance and relieves post-effort soreness. […]
I’m sad. Gone is the novelty of having magic in my IPhone. For over a year, I was special. As a beta-tester, I could show you your heart rhythm on my IPhone. Today, the AliveCor IPhone ECG passed muster with the FDA. It gained clearance to be sold to medical providers. I first reported this […]
Dear Endurance Athletes, More than a year ago, I suggested that Ironman-distance triathlons were not heart healthy. Little did I know that expressing the notion that chronically inflaming oneself might cause permanent heart damage would be so controversial. This post led to my first experience with ad hominem comments. Obviously, talking about the upper limit […]
Tonight, let’s talk a little about ‘normal.’ Nearly every weekend in the fall, during cyclocross season, I line up with a cadre of other men who look as though they desperately need to “eat a sandwich.” You look around for calm and all you see are ribs and hip bones poking through spandex. Seriously, these […]
Millions of Americans believe in the practice. Government reformers believe in it. Doctors too. Heck, even I, an accused therapeutic nihilist, tracked down a poor soul who agreed to be my primary care doctor. Call it old-fashioned, but I wanted my own doc, and I wanted yearly “checkups.†No procedure—not even AF ablation–is as good […]
A good friend sent me a post from the now famous BikeSnobNYC. Its title was “Why so serious?†The famous one was dissing the over-seriousness of amateur bike racers. Talk about taking the easy trail. Making fun of amateur racers? Next thing you know, he will be calling all masters bike racers dentists. I am […]
(Sorry folks, I published this post last night but with the wrong date. As we say in the EP lab: “rookie mistake.”) For many bike racers, the end of summer marks the beginning of cyclocross season. So it was tonight, an unusually perfect August evening, that the Louisville (KY) cycling community enjoyed its first cyclocross […]
The thing about opportunity is you don’t always know what comes around the next corner. It’s like riding in strange places. Where’s the top of the hill? How bad is the descent? Will I like this ride? Will I be any good at it? Questions. Another thing about opportunity is how it prods you out […]
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Finding normal–after summer vacation.
I had better write something. It’s butt to chair time. A warning: this is a blog–and I’m practicing…blogging. Time away is supposed to rejuvenate the mind and body. Rest is good; rest breathes new life; rest soothes the inflammation of over-achievement. Sometimes however, rest, like lots of things, runs amok. That’s human nature. Dang vacation. […]
I cheated–a little. I promised to post on some of the ways I use rhythm-control medicines for AF. I did indeed post about this topic–just not here. As I wrote and edited and stewed about rhythm medicine for AF, it occurred to me that this would be a great topic to write about on Trials […]