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Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

They routinely do not exercise. Their diets are often poor. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. Because when you look at the lifestyles of healthy centenarians, they are as bad if not worse than all the rest of us 1. They often smoke.

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Physiology Friday #196: Resistance Training and Heart Health

Physiologically Speaking

On Monday, I posted a video summary of the recently released Scientific Statement by the American Heart Association (AHA) on resistance exercise training for cardiovascular health. Everyone knows that resistance exercise is important for building and maintaining muscle mass. We lift weights to build and maintain muscle.

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Physiology Friday #196: Resistance Training and Heart Health

Physiologically Speaking

On Monday, I posted a video summary of the recently released Scientific Statement by the American Heart Association (AHA) on resistance exercise training for cardiovascular health. Everyone knows that resistance exercise is important for building and maintaining muscle mass. We lift weights to build and maintain muscle.

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Highlights from The National Lipid Association (NLA) Scientific Sessions 

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

He highlighted that cardiovascular health is essential for cognitive health, noting the common occurrence of vascular dementia. Ballantyne, MD , emphasized that while fellows may consider prevention “boring,” it is crucial for avoiding resource-intensive late-stage cardiovascular disease (CVD). Ballantyne, MD, FNLA , Robert A.

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Understanding Our Brain: Why We Get Hooked and What to Do about It

Physiologically Speaking

I asked Michael 9 question about our brain’s scarcity loop, how it influences our health behaviors like exercise and what we eat, and how you can leverage knowledge of our Scarcity Brain to live a better, healthier life. Selecting the optimal diet. How does the Tsimane diet diverge from our Western, modern diets?

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What To Eat To Lose Weight & Maintain Muscle

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Share For a 45-year-old male, 180cm tall, 95 kg in weight, exercising 4 to 5 times per week (Because you should be!). Please go and read every single GLP-1 trial on weight loss (Average 15 kg) and show me where they got everyone to go on an extremely low-carb diet to avoid insulin spikes. I have linked to one of many of them here.

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10 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Heart Health

Dr. Paddy Barrett

What kind of diet should I eat? What type of exercise should I do? For those who have optimised their cardiovascular risk, their future risk of dementia and many cancers is also likely to reduce. What should my blood pressure be? What is a normal cholesterol? What is heart disease?