Van Gogh’s Yellow Coronas

Van Gogh’s Yellow Coronas

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world's most renowned painters, but during his lifetime, he sold only one of his paintings, The Red Vineyard, even though he painted more than 900 canvases and penned more than 1100 drawings and sketches.  He lived most of his...
Exercisers Have More Stable Plaques

Exercisers Have More Stable Plaques

Two breakthrough studies have given the best explanation yet of how exercise helps to prevent heart attacks. Competitive older endurance athletes may have more plaques in their arteries than non-exercisers, but they have the type of plaques that are far less likely to...
Van Gogh’s Yellow Coronas

Incredible Senior Athletes

My report on Exercisers Have More Stable Plaques, showing that vigorous exercise in later life helps to prevent heart attacks by stabilizing plaques, should be a strong stimulus for people to continue exercising at any age.    This week at the USA Track and...
NSAIDs May Block Gains in Endurance and Strength

NSAIDs May Block Gains in Endurance and Strength

A study io mice showed why taking NSAIDS (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs), to reduce muscle pain before, during or after exercise, can reduce the gains in endurance from aerobic training (PNAS, June 27, 2017;114(26):6675–6684). The processes that heal damaged...