Graphs We Care About: Fixed Human Energy Expenditure
Active people burn more calories than less active ones. This simple statement is compelling, important, and mostly wrong.
Are 40% of dementia cases preventable? Probably more than that.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating form of neurocognitive decline. Too many people falsely assume dementia is an inevitable
Zone 2 Training: Part 2—The Myths
Anything useful in health & fitness eventually gets coopted and surrounded by myths. Zone 2 training is no different. It has become popularized, misunderstood, and over-complicated, all the while receiving nonsensical criticisms, mostly for things it isn't.
Osteoarthritis is not a death sentence... and the surprising reason why it occurs.
Very few people, as well as very few doctors, understand the etiology or the natural history of osteoarthritis (OA) well. For the most part, osteoarthritis is a biological disease, as opposed to the belief that osteoarthritis is a mechanical disease.
Launching svGPT, plus AI in Healthcare
💡Today we are launching our first AI service: svGPT, a large language model-based chatbot—for paid members only—trained on
Graphs We Care About, A Series: Healthy Life Expectancy
We are doing an ongoing series of posts about health & fitness graphs we care about. The last one was about VO2max slack. This time we are talking about the growing gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy around the world.
Zone 2 Training, Part 1: The Basics
It's time to talk about Zone 2 training, the simple idea of exercise at (relatively) low heart rates. It is
Muscle, and Why We Don't Want to Lose It
We talk a lot here about cardiovascular fitness and how it's the ultimate health drug, free and effective. But muscle