About a year ago I wrote about the inflammation of business travel. My first-hand experience helped me understand why so many middle-aged jet-setters turn up with heart rhythm problems. Basically, I found out that life on the road serves up stress. Yesterday, I met business travel’s first cousin: taking your child to an over-scheduled all-day […]
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As a bike-racing heart doctor who practices in one of America’s least healthy states, it pains me to say anything against exercise. I spend a great deal of my typical office day cajoling Kentuckians to exercise more. Sometimes, I even prescribe daily exercise rather than a medicine! “It’s OK to exercise every day that you […]
Readers of Cycling Wednesdays know that I am often tough on the endurance athlete crowd. Our over-indulged, egocentric lifestyles, and less-than-tranquil temperaments make great fodder for posts on inflammation. Sorry about that. But not this Wednesday, though. Today, I am putting your healthy ways up on a pedestal. I would like to invite you into […]
It’s hard to believe that turbulence could be a good thing for the heart. Consider how the word turbulent is defined: “characterized by conflict, disorder, or confusion; not controlled or calm.” Those traits don’t sound very heart-healthy. But when it comes to the heart rhythm, it turns out that a turbulent response—to a premature beat—is […]
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The sun is shining through my office windows. The inflammation of over-scheduling nearly broke me today. This Friday, I’m going home to ride. Goodbye Friday. JMM
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The good news is that the efficiency of modern living affords us many treasures, like Apple products and carbon-fibre bikes, for instance. The bad news is that this same modern-ness immerses us in a sea of inflammation. That’s unfortunate because more times than not, Heart Disease occurs as a result of excess inflammation. One of […]
This Wednesday, I’d like to talk about how rodents, relationships, and riding relate to intelligence and overall wellness. This idea comes from a nicely written NY Times piece entitled, Does Loneliness Reduce the Benefits of Exercise? Here, Ms Gretchen Reynolds reviews a few intriguing studies about how relationships may affect exercise, stress hormone levels and […]
At the core of my doctoring self, I am an internist and cardiologist–just like a heart surgeon is a surgeon, a judge a lawyer, and an electrical engineer an engineer. Heart rhythm disorders do not occur in a vacuum, they occur in people. And people are complicated. There are nearly always other medical issues that […]
Heart disease is serious. It is the most common cause of death. Heart disease is also our most preventable disease. Heart disease is about inflammation. The same mechanisms that cause the throat to swell from an infection, the skin to redden after an insect bite, and a scar to form after a cut are what […]
Hi all. Welcome to my Cycling page. Although DrJohnM is primarily a medical blog, each Wednesday, I write on a topic that is–albeit sometimes tangentially–connected to cycling or endurance sports. I call these features, Cycling Wednesdays. (You can click the link for an archive of my past CW posts.) Random cycling facts about me: When […]
Doctor’s Lounge: Thursdays It’s the time of the year when dietary temptations lurk around every corner of the hospital. And since completely abstaining is not always possible, the best antidote for this holiday deluge of inflammation is obvious: exercise. No doubt, within the boundaries of common sense, all exercise is good. But is there a best […]