Dr. Paddy Barrett

MARCH 23, 2024

They get the diseases of ageing about 20 to 25 years later than everyone else. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. Most adults, healthy centenarians included, will die from one of three things: Cardiovascular Disease.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 23, 2024

While I have covered many of these fitness measures individually in previous posts, I wanted to summarise these metrics and how they relate to living longer and preventing major diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. Let’s start with the most basic measures and then examine increasingly complex ones.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia account for 60% of all deaths in the US. Let’s start with Cancer. Compared to those who had ‘Low’ lifestyle scores, those with ‘Ideal’ scores were 27% less likely to be diagnosed with cancer in the next ten years. These are NCD’s.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JANUARY 30, 2024

Dr. Hallberg passed in March of 2022 after a 5-year battle with stage IV lung cancer. This groundbreaking and highly actionable webinar, led by Nina Teicholz and Ron Krauss, MD, breaks apart the long-held, limiting belief that T2D is an incurable chronic disease based on conventional care.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 12, 2024

Similar patterns have been observed for cardiovascular disease and also cancer. Less major diseases earlier in life. Therefore, even if living longer is not a priority, delaying the onset of a major chronic disease should be. Even 30 minutes per day has been shown to improve health outcomes 6. More movement.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 26, 2024

While pretty much everyone will develop coronary artery disease at some point in their lives if they live long enough, developing diabetes can pull forward the onset of coronary artery disease by over ten years 2. If delaying the onset of major chronic disease is your goal. But they don’t guarantee the outcome.

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Physiologically Speaking

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Not only that, if evolution wired us to be lazy, then why do moderate to high levels of physical activity and aerobic fitness correlate with the best health outcomes? Up to a point, increasing levels of physical activity improves health outcomes. Source: Pinckard et al.

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