Why a Little Stress May Be Exactly What We Need We have spent much of the modern era succeeding in making ourselves comfortable. We heat the house...
Mitochondrial Aging and the Art of Growing Older Well
The Slow Burn Every cell in your body contains tiny structures called mitochondria. They are often described as the cell's power plants, but that...
Exercise After Cancer
What the research tells us about exercise, recurrence and survival after cancer Cancer treatment has traditionally been built around things done to...
The Alphabet of Life known as Amino Acids
Why the Building Block of Protein Matter More Than You Think There are certain words in medicine that sound far more complicated than they really...
Movement as Medicine
Why the Human Body Thrives When It Refuses to Sit Still There is a curious phenomenon that occurs as we age. The less we move, the less we feel like...
The Healing Power of Mountain Air
Before Sunrise There is a moment in the mountains that never gets old. It often arrives before sunrise. Frost clings to the grass. A mountain...
The Endurance Athlete’s Paradox
Why Some of the Fittest People on Earth Have High Coronary Calcium Scores For years we have operated under a wonderfully simple equation: exercise...
Aging in Motion
What it Really Means to Stay Active for Life There’s a quiet revolution happening in longevity science, and it doesn’t come from a pill bottle, a...
High Intensity Interval Training
If you don’t have time to exercise, then you had better make time to be sick, because so much of our health depends on getting the right amount and...
Managing Stress by Finding Your Nervous System’s Sweet Spot
Stress is rampant and it's creating many health problems. Each day in the office I'm talking to patients about "dialing down" their stress...
Bath vs Sauna: Which Heat Therapy Packs the Biggest Punch?
I love our hot tub. Our son loves his dry sauna. And many of my patients love their infra-red sauna. Last week I wrote about the benefits of heat...
Heat vs. Cold Shock Proteins: A Battle of the Elements
Last week I was in Santa Fe enjoying a soak in a hot spring then alternating with a jump into icy cold water. Our friends were questioning the...