For men, think of your testosterone as an overall marker of your health and wellbeing. Wondering about the benefits of sufficient testosterone? Improved athletic performance, Decreased workout recovery time—less joint pain, stiffness and muscle soreness, Increased lean muscle mass and decreased body fat, Enhanced libido and sexual function, Feeling calmer, more stress-proof, and more positive about your life
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Today we explore the all-to-common problem of using exercise to compensate for eating disorders and body image issues. Dr. Doug Jowdy talks though how to think about this problem and how we can overcome it.
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Dr. Doug Jowdy the renowned sports psychologist who works champion athletes as well as older athletes like you and me who seek a path to higher athletic performance today while ALSO transitioning toward a path of health and athletic longevity.
Today, Doug has returned to provide more tips for me and you to use to strengthen our psychology….to make us stronger mentally in optimizing the balance between longevity and athletic performance.
Strength training enhances exercise economy, anaerobic capacity, lactate threshold, maximal strength, maximal speed and endurance, while also reducing the rate of fatigue. Isn’t that a cyclists ultimate wish-list?”
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Dr. Johnson will tell us why we put on excess weight, why we find it hard to sustain weight loss, why we get high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and gout, and how these disease are all related. Yeah. And, You will also learn some easy changes to your own lifestyle to improve your health, which is of course the foundation for being a strong athlete.
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Sponsor: RePowerU — a free fitness practices assessment (a 10-minute questionnaire) Welcome back to the Wise Athletes podcast with Joe Lavelle and Glen Winkel. On today’s episode, number 57, we are joined by Tom Bell, UK Hill Climb National Champion who is a past UK mountain bike marathon national champion and the current UK Hill…
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Sponsor: RePowerU — a free fitness practices assessment (a 10-minute questionnaire) Who is Dr. Adam Bataineh? Adam Bataineh, MD: Internal medicine doctor focused on aging and longevity. Co-founder and chief medical officer of Span Health, a longevity-focused health coaching app. The focus of the Wise Athletes podcast is older athletes, and how they can improve…
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Dr. Luks is a top Orthopedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine Physician who is also a masters athlete. Dr Luks knows all too well how hard it can be and how important it is to remain athletic for the pleasures it brings to life as well as for the many health and longevity benefits that cannot be obtained in any other way. In our talk we discuss the many aspects of making your joints last a lifetime.
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Long time, competitive endurance athletes show a higher risks of AFib, which is a marker of premature aging. The faster you solve AFib, the better your long-term outcome. Ablation technologies have come a long way….success rates of 80-90% can be expected
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This is a shortened version of Episode 50 (1.5 hours long)….I cut out the good and left the great parts of the story from George Dallam, PhD on nasal breathing for health and performance.
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