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2020-04-02 The Framingham Risk Score for Hard Coronary Heart Disease

2020-04-01 Statin Do NOT Save Lives in Women

2020-03-30 Your Doctor is NOT Responsible for Your Health—YOU Are! Recommended Reading to Open Your Mind and Ask the Right Questions, Because Your Life Depends On It

2020-03-03 The Awful Side Effects of Statins

2020-03-02 Reader Comment: Heart Health and Diet

2020-03-02 Heart Health and Diet: Medical Malpractice Going Straight to a Statin vs a Mediterranean Diet Proven to be Just as Effective with No Risks

2020-03-01 Statins: Systemic Poison that Damages Virtually Every System in the Body

2020-02-28 The Dynamic Influence of a High Fat Diet on Cholesterol Variability: Dave Feldman’s Nerd Research on Diet vs Cholesterol

2020-02-23 How important is Dietary Management in Hypercholesterolemia?

2020-02-19 Relationship Between Lifelong Exercise Volume and Coronary Atherosclerosis in Athletes

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2020-04-09 SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19: a Note to Experts: this Video Shows Why Facial Coverings are Useless (not)

2020-04-09 SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19: Incompetent Government Aid, and a Call for Large Cash-Flush Companies to STEP UP and DIRECTLY Help Those in Need

2020-04-07 SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19: the WHO is Corrupt and Incompent, Should be Abolished and Replaced

2020-04-07 SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19: Studies of Transmission via Coughing and Sneezing offer Compelling Evidence to Require Facial Coverings

2020-04-05 SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19: What is the NET Cost in Lives

2020-04-05 SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19: Humidity of 40% to 60% May be Ideal to Slow It, Low Humidity Might Enhance its Spread

2020-04-05 SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19 aka Coronavirus: How/Why It Was Named

2020-04-04 SARS-CoV2: Against Stupidity the Gods Themselves Contend In Vain

2020-04-03 SARS-CoV2 aka COVID-19: Situation in France

2020-04-02 SARS-CoV2 aka COVID-19: “Just breathing or talking may be enough to spread COVID-19 after all”

2020-03-31 COVID-19: Nebraska Medicine: “Study documents widespread contamination of the environment near patients with COVID-19”

2020-03-31 COVID-19: Facial Covering (Mask) Policy: Will Public Officials Take Full Responsibility for Bad Advice? (if so-proven)

2020-03-31 COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2): the Tide is Turning for Facial Covering / Mask Official Recommendations

2020-03-29 COVID-19: the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) and Infection Fatality Rate (IFR)

2020-03-29 COVID-19: Public Policy MUST be Changed: Facial Coverings should ALWAYS be Worn To Protect Others

Vascular Therapy for Improved Health

Vascular Therapy for Faster Recovery After Workouts, Faster Healing, general health via Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field (PEMF).

1. Introduction to Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field (PEMF) for Vascular Therapy
2. Getting a PEMF Device for Vascular Therapy, Lloyd’s Choice

Concussion / Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Recovering from a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) AKA concussion, a personal experience report..

1. Concussion: What to expect, and Setting Expectations
2. Concussion: The Crash and its Immediate Effects
3. Concussion: Diagnosis Dangers
4. Concussion: Nutrition, What to Eat and What to Avoid
5. Concussion: Resources and Reading
6. Concussion: Family Time
7. Concussion: Nature Time
8. Concussion: Acute Phase, First 9 Days After Crash
9. Concussion: Post-Crash Recovery Phase 1, Post-Acute Phase
10. Concussion: Post-Crash Recovery Phase 2, Mid-way Phase
11. Concussion: Post-Crash Recovery Phase 3, Over the Hump
12. Concussion: Post-Crash Recovery Phase 4, Getting Close to Normal
13. Concussion: Post-Crash Recovery Phase 5, Full Recovery Emerges, Well, Maybe
14. Concussion: Post-Crash Recovery Phase 6, Indeterminate Recovery
15. Concussion: General Comments
16. Concussion: Reader Comments

Nutrition and Food

Tips on how to eat and recover when training and racing..

1. Gluten-free Oats / Oatmeal for a Glucose Source

Guest Professor Dr. Clyde Wilson

Nutrition and training tips (used with permission)..

1. Complete Sports Nutrition: WHAT, WHEN and WATER
2. Energy versus weight loss: The Partitioning Principle

DEXA Body Scan for Fat, Muscle, Bone Measurement

Learn how much muscle, fat and bone density you have to as to target training..

1. About DEXA Scans
2. Bone density
3. Using Your DEXA Scan Results
4. Android and Gynoid Fat
5. DEXA vs BMI

Workouts

Analysis of various workouts..

1. Solvang Spring Double Century Analysis

Blog posts

2020

2020-04-02 The Framingham Risk Score for Hard Coronary Heart Disease

2020-04-01 Statin Do NOT Save Lives in Women

2020-03-30 Your Doctor is NOT Responsible for Your Health—YOU Are! Recommended Reading to Open Your Mind and Ask the Right Questions, Because Your Life Depends On It

2020-03-03 The Awful Side Effects of Statins

2020-03-02 Reader Comment: Heart Health and Diet

2020-03-02 Heart Health and Diet: Medical Malpractice Going Straight to a Statin vs a Mediterranean Diet Proven to be Just as Effective with No Risks

2020-03-01 Statins: Systemic Poison that Damages Virtually Every System in the Body

2020-02-28 The Dynamic Influence of a High Fat Diet on Cholesterol Variability: Dave Feldman’s Nerd Research on Diet vs Cholesterol

2020-02-23 How important is Dietary Management in Hypercholesterolemia?

2020-02-19 Relationship Between Lifelong Exercise Volume and Coronary Atherosclerosis in Athletes

2020-02-15 Can an Extreme Endurance Athlete Have an Early Heart Attack? CT Coronary Calcium Scan, HDL Cholesterol, LDL Cholesterol, Statins, etc (UPDATE with a cardiologist viewpoint)

2019

2019-07-03 Gut Bacteria May Play a Role in Autism

2019-07-01 Three Top Notch Professionals to Help Your Body Health and Cycling Performance

2019-06-30 Science News: Gut microbes might help elite athletes boost their physical performance

2019-06-20 Every Year is a Challenge, the Key is Having Faith in Recovery: Antibiotics Are Dangerous

2019-04-17 The Fungus that Can Kill You—Candida Auris Spreading and Very Hard to Decontaminate

2019-03-26 Comments on Bicycling.com: 'Pro Cyclists Open Up About Depression'

2019-02-28 Science News: With its burning grip, shingles can do lasting damage (varicella zoster)

2019-02-12 What’s Wrong with American Health Care System (everything, but here’s one thing)

2019-02-12 Resting Heart Rate — Bradycardia

2019-02-12 Nutritional Science Studies Start to Look very Non-Sciency

2019-02-02 Various Interesting Health Findings in Science Daily: Exercise and Hidden Fat, Extreme Exercise and Heart Disease, Fasting, Brain and Fasting, Peripheral Neuropathy

2019-01-11 CBD (Cannabidiol): Oil vs Tincture

2019-01-11 CBD (Cannabidiol): Lab Testing for Quality and Freedom from Contamination.

2019-01-11 CBD (Cannabidiol): How to Use/Apply

2018

2018-12-31 Happy New Year! Almost—Bike Crash and Damaged Face and Teeth

2018-12-26 Off Topic, Health: CBD (Cannabidiol)—Eliminated My Small Airway Impairment (Asthma)

2018-09-16 ‘Replication crisis’ spurs reforms in how science studies are done

2018-09-07 Battling Fatigue Off the Bike

2018-07-05 RAAM Team Bemer Sets Two World Records using Bemer Vascular Therapy

2018-07-05 Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS)

2018-07-05 Exercise may be best medicine to treat Post-Concussion Syndrome

2018-07-04 Recovering in 40 Hours After Finishing Alta Alpina = Unprecedented — Using Bemer® Vascular Therapy Intensively

2018-06-14 Recovering from Extreme Efforts

2018-06-14 Intractable or Problematic Physical Issue? Medical Massage with Dee Sickles in Flagstaff, AZ

2018-05-31 Pot / Marijuana / Weed Smoking Drivers and Me on a Bike

2018-05-13 Concussion Guidelines: Pure Rest is a Bad Idea

2018-05-07 Extreme Exercise May Induce Low-Level Arteriolosclerosis

2018-04-25 Vascular Therapy for Faster Recovery After Workouts, Faster Healing, etc

2018-04-20 Emerging Research Shows that Health and Wellness Starts with Diet and Exercise and Sleep

2018-04-20 Concussion aka Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI): Experience Report and Advice, Ongoing

2018-04-11 The Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had

2018-04-11 Hacking the Brain and Nervous System

2018-04-10 Concussion aka Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI): Experience Report and Advice, Ongoing

2018-03-14 Hamstring Tendon Injury: How to Treat When a Season of 8 More Double Centuries Looms?

2018-03-12 Loss of Muscle Mass in Older Age Correlates Strongly with Loss of Nerves

2018-03-12 Benefit of Cycling as Aging Progresses: Stronger Immune System, Muscle Tissue 30 Years Young

2018-02-08 Brain fires nerves fire muscles: my Peripheral Neuropathy Damage Finally Healed After 3 Years?

2018-02-05 Stanford Medicine: Weight flux alters molecular profile

2018-01-22 Vitamin D: Many Health Benefits Accrue from it, Acts as Much as a Hormone as a Vitamin

2018-01-20 Body says “GO”, so Aggressively Pushing up Fitness and Body Fat Down for 2018

2017

2017-06-03 Completed: 2017 Eastern Sierra Double Century

2017-05-21 Completed: Davis Double 2017

2017-05-16 Completed: Central Coast Double

2017-04-01 Completed: Southern Inyo Double Century, and Using a Face Mask for Dust

2016

2016-08-11 Maybe Your Water Filter is not Actually Filtering Out (all) Bacteria? Use a Water Purifier.

2016-08-10 Pot Smoking Drivers and Me on a Bike

2016-08-09 Experience Report: Revo Guide S Sunglasses, Particularly for Cycling

2016-07-19 No Single Healthy Diet Exists for Different Individuals, at Least in Mice

2016-07-19 Exercise Helps You Get in Shape for Old Age

2016-06-17 Science News: Healthiest weight just might be ‘overweight’

2016-06-17 Properly timed exercise aids memory

2016-06-17 Iodine Deficiency from Exercise

2016-04-16 Are Grains the Culprit in Health and Weight? Is 'Wheat Belly' a Crackpot Diet? (UPDATED through 29 April)

2015

2015-12-19 Science News: “Upending daily rhythm triggers fat cell growth”

2015-11-22 Science News: “A good diet for you may be bad for me”

2015-11-08 Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics Can Cause Peripheral Neuropathy, Ruptured Tendons, Cardiovascular Disease (and Flagyl/Metronidazole)

2015-11-08 Blood exerts a powerful influence on the brain

2015-09-20 Coffee: New Research Shows Huge Promise for Health Benefits for Liver, Diabetes

2015-06-06 Typical American Diet Can Damage Immune System, Microbiome

2015-02-25 Fresh Food is Best: Additives to Keep Food Fresh May Disrupt the Gut Microbiome

2015-02-10 To Clot or Not to Clot: Aging Athletes and Blood Clot Prevention vs Injury/Crash

2015-02-10 Recovering from Donating Blood? Mitigating, and perhaps a Really Bad Idea for Competing Athletes

2015-01-26 Damage Your Gut Microbiome with Artificial Sweeteners? (make yourself more prone to diabetes)

2015-01-18 The Joy of 50 Years: Neuropathy, Gut Ache, Gallbladder Polyps

2014

2014-01-07 Eating Nuts May Extend Lifespan

2013

2013-09-21 BBC: Health Kick Reverses Aging

2012

2012-09-03 Acclimatizing to Altitude

2012-04-24 Nanopollutants Harm Vessel Health

2011

2011-11-24 My 2011 Cycling Accomplishments

2011-08-22 Power, Heart Rate, Fueling, Recovery For a 5-Hour Training Ride